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?
I have one set up as an irrigation controller. I was going to build an OpenStack cluster to test configuration settings on (I run a production cluster at work), but gave up when the supply chain problems happened and prices skyrocketed.
I have four Pis. They’re running Pihole DNS & DHCP, a reverse proxy, and torrent clients. I don’t have them setup as a cluster, been meaning to look into it but I don’t want to add complexity so I’m putting it off.
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I use a Pi4 to run one of my HAproxy nodes. It does die once in a while from not enough power because my power brick is pretty old at this point. Other than that its great. I used to have a cluster of Pi3’s bit I’m transitioning cluster managment systems so they aren’t doing anything right now. I recently got a Lichee pi and that will most likely replace them once I get it all working.
Using Pi’s to run services in my homelab which I want to keep separate from my server (to have some sort of failover in case the server goes down). Status/Monitoring, VPN server and so on
That’s a smart idea. Separating services across devices seems like something a low powered PC would be a great use for.
Thanks for the great sarcasm mate
I wasn’t being sarcastic. I’m apologize if I missed something though.
Apologies accepted, seems like I missed something:)
I have a 4 meg Pi 4b running Pi-hole and Mini-DLNA. It’s rather under-utilized for those tasks, but it serves them quite well.
I have a Turing pi V2, currently with only one CM4 module in it, running some *arrs, paperless, smb and some monitoring.
That’s awesome! Turing Pi has always fascinated me.
I used a pi 3 to host a Foundry server (TTRPG software).
I use Docker to simplify things, since I run two instances of it. Simple port forwarding setup within the docker container. the main reason I used a pi instead of my computer is so my players could access their dnd stuff all the time.
I stopped because I switched ISPs and they won’t let me port-forward. My vpn supports it but the latency isn’t ideal. I host the same thing through a cheap server now.
Incase you wanna go back to port forwarding, you could try ipv6! Just gotta make sure all your party members computers have ipv6 enabled
Dunno enough about ipv6, wouldn’t my ISP still need to allow it?
That’s my understanding, and there’s no option in their locked-up router to enable it, for ipv6 either.
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Pihole. Its hard to look at websites without Pihole. Oh! I have another running Octopi for my 3D printer.
Did you find any way to have pihole work with mobile properly? I tried it 6 months ago and while it blocked ads, it left giant gaping white spaces with Xs through em, searing my eyes at night.
I use my pi for 3dprinting management.
Yes, it’s probably pretty demanding of the hardware but my Pi4 4GB runs:
- Heimdall
- Portainer
- Vaultwarden
- Flatnotes
- ownCloud
- FreshRSS
- Paperless
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System HA Home Assistant automation software ~ High Availability HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web IP Internet Protocol MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking NAS Network-Attached Storage NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) Plex Brand of media server package RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices nginx Popular HTTP server
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I used to run pretty much all my workloads on Raspberry Pis, mostly in docker containers. I’ve since moved over to some ex enterprise servers and Proxmox, so I really only have a couple of Pis left in service, running:
- Frigate: nvr for my IP cameras
- exim: mail relay server for my stuff to be able to email out (nothing in)
- Wireguard: outbound VPN server connected to Mullvad
- Pi-hole: 2nd instance for redundancy, also runs cloudflared (for DNSoHTTP) and pihole-exporter (for putting Pi-hole stats into Prometheus)
- Mosquitto: because I haven’t moved it yet
- Prometheus: ditto
I only have one that’s hooked up to my 3D printer for Octoprint. I’d like to set up another one as a SDR, but I leave my app hosting to more powerful machines.
RPi 4B > DietPi > Pi hole + Unbound.
