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Can't wait to buy this, boot it up, play with it for four hours, then stick it in the same desk drawer with the other Pis I have bought over the years. (The up
by elliotpage 7y ago
Can't wait to buy this, boot it up, play with it for four hours, then stick it in the same desk drawer with the other Pis I have bought over the years.
(The upgrades look great, just my attention span is not so great)
- franky47 7y agoI can relate. However these days I have found a new life for those abandoned Pis: I install Pi-Hole [1] on them and set them up for family and close friends. [1] https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/
- TimeOutBoss 7y agoWhat else would you recommend along side pi-hole, something easy to setup and maintain like pihole?
- mr_isomies 7y agoI have one with rutorrent that acts our house seedbox / file server. I also added droppy as a simple, user friendly file browser for my flatmates. Obviously, this all runs on docker-compose, because I'm a very weak man (but also, it makes managing the whole thing trivial once setup)
- kolp 7y agoMotionEye OS is good as a camera surveillance system. Needs a USB camera or a Raspberry Pi camera. Takes a bit of tweaking to get the optimal camera settings (using a GUI), but then it works well. LibeElec is useful as a home theatre setup, based on Kodi.
- cr0sh 7y agoSecond the idea of MotionEye OS - I have one running as a camera for the front door of my house, emailing me when it triggers to my phone's gmail account. So I have a kind of running "backup" of events if anything happens. I use to run ZoneMinder on an old PC, but it was a bit flakey, way too crazy to set up for a home system; I had learned how to config and admin it over the last several years, but I was just plain tired of it. It's another great system for security cameras, but not really for a home, unless you have a ton of cameras that need monitoring, and don't mind the dedication of a beefy machine to the task. MotionEye OS is more a distributed solution. It is possible to set it up so one install can monitor multiple cameras (in some manner - I haven't played with it), but I like it as a simple single IP camera turn-key solution. It basically can turn a Rasperry Pi into a cheap wireless IP camera that isn't locked down or tied to a proprietary ($) cloud system. Using a RasPi Zero W and the cheapest camera you can find, you can build such a camera for under $50.00 USD off Amazon; probably cheaper if you shop around a bit more. The only cheaper option I've found (but it takes more to set it up properly) is the ESP32 camera modules that you can get.
- flyinghamster 7y agoI haven't looked at LibreElec in a while - have they improved the setup for infrared receivers and remotes? That's the main thing that caused me to switch to OSMC. I'm using an IR receiver hooked to the GPIO pins, and OSMC made it quite simple to set up with my old RC6 remote.
- penguinlinux 7y agoI have a raspberry pi zero w that I use with PivPN and Pihole and also I compiled tor on it. I can vpn into my home network , use tor as my socks 5 proxy and I also use pinhole to deal with tracking and advertising. best 5 dollars I've ever spent.
- guilhermetk 7y agoPiVPN, if you have the need to remote access your home network: http://www.pivpn.io/ http://www.pivpn.io/
- nsporillo 7y agoI run a pi-hole as well and I have to say it's been an absolutely great addition to my home network. It essentially blocks tracking and advertisements on all devices, not just my computers with ad block. Just need to keep the block lists up to date every couple weeks, but it's honestly great.
- canada_dry 7y agoI used to run pi-hole, but just switched over to: nextdns.io It works like a charm!
- IE6 7y agoI wish pi-hole was just a tiny bit more polished. I found it takes a lot of work (and knowledge of linux networking) to get up and running properly and stable.
- driverdan 7y agoWhat issues have you encountered? I haven't seen any problems with it.
- Falcorian 7y agoI've run into the same. It often would come back from a reboot without DNS restarted correctly. I never went through a Pi Hole update without having to manually fix things either. A few weeks ago I switched to Ad Guard Home. Has been rock solid since. The big dancehaus it doesn't support the exact same filter files.
- curiousigor 7y agoI believe you can add your own filter files, so in this sense you could basically link the same ones right?
- Falcorian 7y agoDefinitely, and I've added some of the same ones. What I meant is it doesn't seem to parse the same range of formats, so it rejected some of Pi Hole's filters as malformed.
- IE6 7y agoYeah - I found it ironic that out of the box I couldn't get a pi-hole to do DNS lookups. It always took manual fixing.
- GreenJelloShot 7y agoI know this isn't terribly helpful to you, but I have never had any problems with using or upgrading Pi Hole. I have been running mine for a few years now, and everything has been smooth and error-free.
- Y_Y 7y agoDon't forget to keep it powered while it's in the drawer so you could ssh and build something really awesome. Maybe it's a personality flaw, but I get plenty of satisfaction from just reading blog write-ups if things I could have done with my tech junk, without all the associated time invested. It's much easier to vicariously enjoy projects like these, which is why I think drawer-dwelling is an inevitable destiny for most of these widgets.
- gambiting 7y agoWell, same reason why so many people watch playthroughs of difficult games on YT without playing the games themselves. There is a pay off for seeing what you could do if you had the time or motivation to do so.
- agumonkey 7y agoMy flaw regarding SBCs, is that I want to master the whole stack (what variant of linux.. , how is <multimedia server> is written,...), yet I don't have the context to, so I get fed up with almost good use cases and lose interest. That's also why I'm tring microcontrollers, it's back to low level, less shiny projects, but mentally saner.
- burk96 7y agoAny suggestions on microcontrollers? I love my pi but I've been wanting to try my hand at something a little less, desktop-like.
- jbay808 7y agoI love the TI launchpads. http://www.ti.com/design-resources/embedded-development/hardware-kits-boards.html#launchpad http://www.ti.com/design-resources/embedded-development/hard... Seems like the number of them has gone way up so if you don't want to waste time thinking about which one to try, here are some suggestions. Cheap and minimal ($10): http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430g2et http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430g2et High spec for things like motor control ($34): http://www.ti.com/tool/LAUNCHXL-F28379D http://www.ti.com/tool/LAUNCHXL-F28379D
- agumonkey 7y agoThat's why I switched to esp8266, smaller and 1$. Can fit a lot more in the same drawer.
- tty2300 7y agoI ordered 2 of those years ago and they are still in the antistatic bag..
- agumonkey 7y agoI did program one to helloworld over http.
- nmeofthestate 7y agoesp32 is a great way to fill drawers as well.
- agumonkey 7y agoshh don't tell all our secrets
- atonse 7y agoI'm just laughing so hard at this thread. I also have a drawer, but with a bunch of Sonoff Home Automation devices. I promise I'll activate them one day! My wife doesn't have a clever name, but instead of usually rolling her eyes at yet another unfinished project, she loves this particular drawer because it's perfectly (and neatly) organized, like the best of unused item drawers.
- agumonkey 7y agoThere's a collecting factor to it too.
- pagutierrezn 7y agoSonoff with Tasmota firmware let you control all your devices easily (increadibly easy). You just need a raspi or a simple(and cheaper) orange pi zero with a mosquitto mqtt server.
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- kbouck 7y ago> with the other Pis I have bought over the years My wife refers to this as the raspberry pile.
- felbane 7y agoThat's pretty clever. You should marry her.
- guggle 7y agoMarry his wife ? Again ?
- supergauntlet 7y ago(The GP was making a joke)
- ksaj 7y agoYay, Reddit all over again...
- Koshkin 7y agoHe can't, she is already married.
- Darkphibre 7y agoJust blow her a raspberry when she says that. ;)
- elliotpage 7y agoLove it, A+
- pb82 7y agoI use one of my Pis as a PulseAudio network sink that lets me stream music to it from every computer in the house. Not the most creative use but maybe some inspiration.
- ryanmercer 7y agoRight? The most use one has ever seen from me was about 3 hours of playing SNES roms until I realized it was distracting me from Netflix.
- mmsimanga 7y agoI have to confess that I have never even booted up my Pi-3. Now I wonder if it is worth booting up the Pi-3 or should I wait till I get my hands on the Pi-4. That way I don't have to think of upgrading.
- blihp 7y agoThe Pi 3 is no less usable than it was before the announcement. Why bother getting a Pi 4 when you haven't found a use for your 3 yet? I still use a Pi 2 with no complaints. One downside to the 4 is that it is moving from the low power to laptop realm in terms of power consumption which was my main interest in them. If top performance is what you care about, the Raspberry Pi is the wrong place to go looking for it.
- mmsimanga 7y agoThanks for the informative answer. My comment was slightly tongue in cheek :-) but I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I will indeed make an effort to at least boot up my Pi-3.
- ksaj 7y agoMy growing collection of rpis includes an rpi2 with a usb wifi dongle that still gets a fair amount of use. Mostly for experiments, but truth be told, it's not an old slouch. These pi models are all tailor-made options. I think its a mistake to think in terms of "older models" when you consider the lower power requirement and higher physical stability of the rpi2 (doesn't overheat even without a fan, for example). The Zeros are less powerful but still belong in the range because of exactly that.
- flyinghamster 7y agoHeh, I know the feeling. I have three retired Pi systems (two OG units and a 1B+), but I have three running 24/7 as well: first is a 2B+ running OSMC as my media center. The second one is a 3B with a sense hat, running rtl433 and MRTG to graph outdoor and basement temperature and humidity received from transmitters on-premises, barometric pressure from the hat (and also displaying data on the LED display). The last is a 3B+ running Home Assistant. I've been - cross my fingers - lucky with MicroSD cards (usually Samsung, sometimes SanDisk), but having USB3 on the new model is quite the game-changer. ETA: I do have rsync backing up my Pi setups, so losing a MicroSD would be merely annoying rather than catastrophic.
- fpgaminer 7y agoThat's silly. RasPis are stupidly useful. I've got: * A Zero W hooked up to a PM2.5 to do air quality monitoring in the house. Just bought a couple more sensors for it (VOC, eCO2, etc), but haven't hooked them up yet. * A 3B+ running the UniFi controller for my home network. * One is running a custom Hue automation I built to shift the color temperature of the lights throughout the day. * One is built into an internet connected dog treat dispenser I built as a gift. * A rather dusty Pi is running CNCjs so I can have a decent interface to my cheap grbl CNC. * And finally I have a Pi running OctoPrint for my 3D printer. And that's just the ones currently running. I've got two more in progress. One to automate an exhaust fan based on inside and outside temperatures. Another is destined for the garage where it will replace the not-so-great MyQ "smart" functionality of the garage door opener. To each their own I suppose, but I've been consuming RasPis like candy. $60 all-in gets you a fairly beefy platform with almost all the I/O you could require and a vast ecosystem of software and HATs. Honestly their only downside is that at some point I'll have to reconfigure my home network when I start exhausting my current internal /24 with 200 RasPis.
- xrjn 7y ago> One is running a custom Hue automation I built to shift the color temperature of the lights throughout the day. Ooooh do you have the code up somewhere for this? I would love to set it up at home :)
- fpgaminer 7y agoHue has a Labs addon that does this. You can try that easily. Didn't work for me though. If you have Home Assistant, someone built code for that: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/circadian-light-with-philips-hue-independent-from-world-clocks/45435 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/circadian-light-with-p... As for mine, it's a total hack job, but for what it's worth: https://gist.github.com/fpgaminer/7840a6f2fb2d3a3be83625d7acfd12b3 https://gist.github.com/fpgaminer/7840a6f2fb2d3a3be83625d7ac... I don't do the fancy minute by minute adjustments to the color temperature; just a couple fixed settings for time of day and based on when the sun sets. And I just have it adjust a scene, which I have my Hue switches configured to use when I turn the lights on. There's no good way to have this system work with, for example, turning on the lights through Alexa/Siri/etc since they won't use the Circadian scene that's been setup. But what I've got works well enough for now.
- sixothree 7y agoI have a few in drawers, but I do have three running at most times in my house. One is literally just a print server. One is for hobbies. One is for watching movies.
- giarc 7y agoI sold a company and the hardware wasn't included. I have a bunch sitting idle, plus about 1500 RFID tags and 20 readers. Takes up space but I can't get rid of. Should sell them.
- geoquant 7y agoi'm interested...
- giarc 7y agoIn which part? We only have a handful of pi's and half belong to my co-founder, he may want them. As for the RFID readers and RFID tags, we could definitely part with those.
- ambicapter 7y agoEbay is your friend.