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Very cool. I use RPis when I travel as gateways, device interfaces, and sometimes just for a remote shell. You've given me some good information and ideas to
by crusso 7y ago
Very cool. I use RPis when I travel as gateways, device interfaces, and sometimes just for a remote shell. You've given me some good information and ideas to make my experience better.
One request, though, from your snippet of Python:
print GetCPUserial()
C'mon, man... we've got to kill Python 2. Everywhere.
- FerretFred 7y agoYup! I'm using Python3 on all my systems now - except the Travelpi - I'll update it soon.
- bgeeek 7y agoGet a gl router and put openwrt on it. Much better as a travel device. Add an RPi for pihole. Cracking little kit.
- cbzbc 7y agoYou don't need to add pihole - just use the adblock package on openwrt itself.
- bgeeek 7y agoI know, but I also like pihole and what it offers, plus I can do other things on the RPi.
- crusso 7y agoWhy much better? More performance? Is OpenWRT on it a stable Linux with as good package support as I get with Raspbian? A router probably isn't going to have HDMI on it, which is nice to have in a pinch. I also use RPis for various GPIO needs. There's something to be said for having one device that fills a bunch of needs. You get really familiar with that device (and its quirks) and then you can use it in many different contexts.
- bgeeek 7y agoBecause, iirc, USB and networking share the bus - it was impossible for me to create a private WiFi network with an RPi alone. Performance was horrendous.
- crusso 7y agoOh, okay, so you're talking about being able to use it as a "travel router". I normally don't need that, although I have a usb wifi stick on order just in case. True, performance could be better. I wish it were more in line with the odroid family.
- bgeeek 7y agoYep, it's awful - they really do need to fix that issue on them. I've happily bought every revision of the RPi and use them in a multiple places for different tasks, so it's not like I'm too critical of them. I've had them monitoring my UPS, time servers, pi-hole, amateur radio, retro-gaming, etc. The GL AR150 is a smaller form factor than a standard RPi and compliments it brilliantly when travelling.