For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?
Mostly as kodi/plex front ends. I’ve set them up as a kubernetes cluster in the past but they didn’t have enough ram to run my torrent client. Now I just use an old Thinkpad running talos.
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What’s that?
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Those are great if you have no concern for power consumption (environment/money). Can’t beat the Pi for that.
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They sure have their uses. My Pi 4 is at around 3,5W idle and the new Pi 5 is at 1,8W idle. Extremely impressive! And fast enough for all my use cases, so for me it’s the perfect machine. Let me know if you want to sell your Pis :)
I use my pi for 3dprinting management.
I have a 2 running teamspeak for gaming with my wife (separate rooms and don’t want to yell) and pihole. And a 3 hooked to a 3d printer running octoprint.
I have 3 of the 3rd generation ones to mess around on.
Pi 3b to run syncthing
Yes, it’s probably pretty demanding of the hardware but my Pi4 4GB runs:
- Heimdall
- Portainer
- Vaultwarden
- Flatnotes
- ownCloud
- FreshRSS
- Paperless
I used to have a self-built, locally-hosted power strip with individual outlet control that served it’s own interface. It was powered by a Model B+. I’ve since moved to home-assistant and zigbee plugs since my self-built solution was pretty bulky, but it was by far my longest lived Pi project.
I have 3.
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Dakboard above the fridge shows calendar and shared photo album. It also runs bluetooth and serves as a relay for Homeassitant and a few kitchen devices (ie: igrill mini probe for meat).
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pikvm for a desktop
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pikvm+ kvm for lab rack esxi servers.
the latter two also run tailscale and allow me to SSH proxy if needed as a back VPN/remote access utility.
There is also a 4th. It runs NUT/UPS tools for their network gear and a mail relay for alerting and also tailscale so I can proxy if necessary.
Since its tailscale etc. Only key based auth is allowed on these boxes.
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Yes.
The jobs they do:
LAN print server
Running OctoPi for a 3D printer
PiHole and VPN for the home LAN
Experimenting with OpenHab
Portable Kodi box.
And a crappy mass storage server via USB.
Yeah but they’re really only good for single purpose things I keep killing sd cards trying to do more.
Boot from USB is your friend! Use a USB to SSD connector and boot from SSD. Havent had a single storage problem since I switched to SSD :)
I started doing that recently.
I used to use them for all my setups. Then the shortages stopped that. Nowadays I just use one big server.
I’m running a Pi Zero W as a network extender!
I’ve been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.
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It’s the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it’s taken on a few extra duties since it’s always online). It’s been going for a good few years now, 8+?
Just curious, why have the reverse ssh connection to a VPS?
It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.
Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.
I clearly don’t know enough about reverse ssh connections.
My understanding is that you tell the VPS to connect to your computer, a shell pops up on your end, and commands run in it will control the VPS. It helps get around firewalls and makes it less obvious to defenders that an attacker has control of a box because it’s not an inbound connection, it’s an outbound connection.
What’s your workflow? So you ssh into the VPS and maybe use Tmux or Screen to connect to a terminal session, that session is connected to your home machine but instead of sending commands back to the VPS, it sends commands to your home computer?
All the arrs, HA, pihole and a few smaller containers running on pi4. It was my gateway into the world of self hosting.
