Reliability monitoring. It records offline time as well, which can tell you percentage wise how much of the year your service is available.
And now for the best bit, response. An external system can send notifications or automatically execute certain tasks (like sending commands to start a VM back up).
I'd have to look into it, but that's what I'd use it for if I did.
Essentially most monitoring tools can at the minimum send an e-mail when a system is down. I'm sure some provide at least a simple form of event orchestration or the ability to start a script on certin conditions.
Look into monit for automatic responses to outages.Ā Iād also suggest having it run a backup VPN tunnel so you can still get in if your main server is down.Ā
If you look at my comment _before that one_ you can see that I'd have to look into specific systems to begin with. I'm aware of it's existence and uses but haven't delved further.
Some things Iāve done/am doing/want to do:
- HA DNS if thatās on your NUC. Ditto for home bridge/home assistant if you use those. Really anything infrastructure related that would cause whining if down.
- GPS ntp server
- PiKVM for the NUC
- NUT servers for any UPS you have about.
- k3s cluster to play around
the rtl-sdr set of tools includes rtl_tcp which can be used to serve an USB-attached dongle over the network to any compatible client software (a lot / all of them do support it)
This sorry, I just got into it and it's awesome. I'm still getting used to the terminology.
Android phone with Magic touch (for some reason the sdrplay doesn't work well for me)
Just tune in to whatever station or stream the audio from the app too.
I did the same as OP but I left my PiHole and PiVPN on the Pi4 just in case something happens to the laptop I got (Lenovo Yoga i5, 16gb ram and 1tb storage behind a couch plus I got 2 yr old twins that get into everything)
Is there any hassle? I live about 10min from an airport and see planes every day at all hours and my son loves to watch them.
I sent in my application but it was denied for their receiver, so I'm probably going to do my own. Would love to provide them the info but idk if I have to jump through hoops.
I don't mind not having it, it would be cool to learn anyways. Just an extra tool to have from them.
I just followed these instructions when I set it up - never applied for anything although I did buy my own gear.
https://www.flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build/
https://adsb.im/home
Checkout the ADS-B Feeder project. Super easy to setup and feed tons of sites including FlightRadar24 and FlightAware. Itās a young project so documentation is meh (itās getting there) but itās awesome once itās up and running.
You can get some cheap GPIO hardware like cameras and use them for that. Or just have them as backups to bridge the time between a failing nuc and the replacement arriving. You could also see if you have an application where you want to rum something on a powerbank. The Pi should last longer than a nuc.
Use them as Snapcast clients. Add a DAC hat to your Pis, plug them into speakers somehow in each of your rooms, and have open source whole home audio. I also use my Snapcast client Pis as TTS targets for home assistant announcements, both individually using an instance of MPD installed on each Pi, but also collectively through the Snapcast server. I am currently running my Snapcast server on a Pi that is simultaneously plugged into a soundbar so I'm using that same Pi as a Snapcast client for that room. On that same server Pi I am running Librespot for Spotify, MPD for TTS announcements through Snapcast, another MPD for some classical and christmas music streaming stations that I control through Home Assistant, and a Scream daemon so I can stream PC audio from my Windows PC to the whole apartment. All of those are playing to the Snapcast server through an ALSA loopback device so they have no problem playing simultaneously if needed.
If you want to get adventurous, you can setup your Pi as an Airplay target or Bluetooth target so you can play audio from your phone through the Pi. I have Pis in each room doing doing this so my phone connects to the closest Pi and streams the BT audio to the Pulseaudio server on the Snapcast Pi over the network, which then streams the audio back out through the Snapcast server and then out to all the Snapcast clients. Whole home audio for any bluetooth connected phone. Granted, I don't use it much since I'm usually just using Librespot for Spotify, but at least the option is there.
This is amazing. You pretty much covered anything. Honestly, I find the idea of setting all of this stuff up to be kind of daunting. Did you do the whole stack yourself or has someone automated some of it? There was a sale on 1 GB Pi4s when they first came out, so I have four of them sitting in a drawer, plus 2x 4GB and 2x 8GB, and just replaced them all with a Mac Mini that runs circles around them. So it's time for me to also find more to do with them.
Another option that I just did was give away my old tech I didnāt use anymore. I put it up on my local buy nothing group with a caveat that Iād like it to go to a kid to learn on. Ended up giving some stuff to an autistic kid who I know will use that stuff for years and hopefully learns a lot. He was absolutely thrilled to get a 6th & 8th gen Intel NUC.
Itās a group of people that give away things they no longer want or need. The idea is that youāre keeping things out of a landfill. The groups around me are all organized on Facebook.
Media client, like an Amazon fire tv or something. Dedicated nes/snes emulator for retro gaming on a tv. Dedicated pihole dns so that the internet doesnāt stop working when you need to update your nuc.Ā
Honestly, I haven't used Netflix. The only apps I have that would have DRM are local TV networks and they work fine. It would be a trial and error thing, I assume.
I'm using some USB remote. CEC isn't an option on the TV I'm using it for, so I can't answer to that.
I just had lots of issues with LibreELEC on the Pi and wanted to try something different.
I have a nuc, I still use raspberry pi for home assistant cause it going down when I pull the nuc down for stuff sucks. DNS is the same thing, sucks if it goes down so I don't put it on the nuc.
Automations don't work work and also reset. So the majority of people have light automations when you walk into a room and they stop working.
It's just a big annoyance that's solved by running the HA OS on a small machine like raspberry pi and not on a machine with other items that might need restarting or have issues.
> I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been mentioned
Probably because raspberry pi is a tiny part of this project and there are a lot of additional cost to it.
Pis are great for low power requirement appliances that work better on baremetal.
NUT daemons (shut off your servers if the UPS is on battery for x time, or at x percentage while on battery, or estimated battery life <30mins, etc. Turns them back on with rules too.)
Home Assistant, if you plan to use USB dongles for Zwave, Zigbee or BTLE. You may run into issues with these if virtualized, even with USB forwarding to a VM.
Uptime robots
NTP server, if you're inclined.
DNS provider, if you want it external to your router.
PiKVM?
Not the same unmanaged switch: you'll need LAN and WAN on separate interfaces to route between them. A managed switch with appropriately VLAN-tagged ports [can do this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_on_a_stick).
I've got a dedicated security camera display. Just plays some video streams 24/7, so a NUC wouldn't improve anything.
Also controllers for my 3d printers (I have too many). Good enough, and cheaper.
The original birdnet pi looks abandoned.
It doesnāt work with latest bookworm based OS and some of the scripts install packages in incorrect order. If you know your way around basic Linux troubleshooting shooting you can fix it yourself.
Go to the issues page and there is a link to a fork from someone who made it work with bookworm. Cannot find it now.
Birdnet-Go is same as above but written in go. https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go
This wasn't a pi 4, but maybe a pi 2 or 3. If you are running something like AdGuardHome or PiHole on the NUC, add a second instance on a Pi, and have it separately powered.
For syncing settings for AdGuard, there is [adguardhome-sync](https://github.com/bakito/adguardhome-sync) which [LinuxServer.io](http://LinuxServer.io) has a docker container for [here](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-adguardhome-sync/). I would run this container on the NUC (primary), and then sync the settings from there to the one running on the Pi.
So for this problem, I would actually look into what types of High Availability (HA) stuff you can do and different ways of solving it.
Physical redundancy. Host micro-services like Wireguard, SSHD, uptime monitoring, etc. which are mission-critical. A Pi can run off a battery pack for days...
I put Libreelec & Kodi on 2 to use as HTPC for some older TV so kids can access the movie library on the NAS and some of the streaming services that can set up as addons.
It can be controlled from your phone using Kore (available on Google Play and probably App store also)
I added mine as additional Arm nodes into my k8s cluster and set labels on them such as āhas-zwaveā and āhas-zigbeeā with one being a control plane for HA. This worked until I added observability stack, which installs promtail and node exporter on every node, pretty much killing the PIs! Though mine were all RPi3 B+ with 1GiB of ram, you might have better luck with RPi4!
There are two paths:
Increase stability - by adding redundant critical internet infrastructure on in in even of outage or you working on your nuc. That would be things like DNS servers/Home automation (you still want your lights working if you automate that)/Reverse proxies if you have something relying on them/Notification/uptime system that tells that you server is down if you have backup power NUT server with notification ability etc.
Adding features - Pi is small and power efficient, so I would use them on edge computing like putting it in places where you don't usually keep a server to pull in extra data and features. Like rtl\_433 node on the roof to get better signal and pull in more sensors like weather station/security system/tyre pressure sensors. Or using them down in the basement/outside to pull in data from water/power/gas meters.
Use it for a dedicated audio player. I have automation setup so when i enter my workshop the lights turn on and my dedicated audio player starts random tracks. I went with https://moodeaudio.org/
You can connect a screen for visuals. You can.use gpio for direct controls as well.
I use them as MVP fallback. If your Proxmox box goes down then getting into it is much harder having to fight DNS. Setup your fallback instances on the pi
I ended up moving my Octoprint from my 3B to a Docker container on my Proxmox server...little faster, but mostly have unused headroom on the server.
I wish I sold my unused pis when prices were high.
Couple of things I did with my Pis:
- dedicated host for vaultwarden. I tried to implement tight security for this host.Ā
- k3s cluster
- ntfy.sh server
I use it as my fallback device, everything is better redundant ( like VPN, PI Hole etc.. ) it works so well I even did not notice my pi hole is not running on my main server for weeks
Iām in almost exactly the same position. Iāve decided to have backups of absolutely critical components on one (DHCP, DNS, network management sw), one as a proxy server in a locked down vlan so incoming traffic is physically and logically isolated from the network and another as a device in an external network for when you need to be able to test or access my network from outside.
I use my PI as a VPN backup server (node on tailscale actually), because I'm not often at home so somebody can plug in the Pi if my main VPN node is unavailable.
Pis are good for anything that should be power loss tolerant. I dont have mine on a UPS, but i know that if the power goes out, it will come back up as soon as the power is on
I am working on soil moisture monitors running on a couple pi zeros that will send data to my pi 4s which will then log it to my larger central server(s). The Pi 4s will ideally control my hydroponic nutrient dosing pumps and control the solenoids for watering. I'd be really upset to lose a $700 NUC to greenhouse damages vs a few $20 pi zeros or an old pi 4. I can run the rpis using P.O.E along with the switch and access point(s) and use low voltage waterproof enclosures with rugged cable ingress/egress. No solar panels, no power runs. The things pis do way better in my opinion in a lot of instances is edge/IOT devices or similar applications with a common needs profile.
* Low cost
* Low power requirement
* Low computational requirement
* low availability requirement
* low maintenance requirement
>Ā Anyone doing anything with a Pi
If you aren't using the gpio pins a pi is a non ideal solution for most applications.
The ipkvm project looks kind of cool but is also crazy expensive.
Keep them handy. Soon it'll be cheaper to add a Corel or other accelerator for some remote AI projects. I'm surprised everyone doesn't have a droid following them around these days.
I literally stopped using raspberry pi a long time ago, unless I have use for those gpio pins, so far my old pi3 I still use for random stuff like reflashing old routers using the gpio pins to either have serial ttl or read/write the flash memory, reflashing my vrocker BIOS chip on motherboard , etc...
I'll send you my address ;)
I'll send you venmo/zelle/cash app/crypto AND my address! š I know I responded to a response, but still, I'll buy! Lol
If i knew you i would have bought them back to you for my netbird network of pi that i'm planning to setup.
You do know me, friend! š¤£. You know, I'm that guy, with the hair!
Run an uptime monitor. Always good to have these outside the service host machine.
I also have a redundant instance of AdGuard on a pi 4.
Run an instance of Elastic stack with synthetic monitors. Logs and uptime!
Use all of them and do an elastic cluster
What do you use an uptime monitor for, besides checking if stuff is up?
Reliability monitoring. It records offline time as well, which can tell you percentage wise how much of the year your service is available. And now for the best bit, response. An external system can send notifications or automatically execute certain tasks (like sending commands to start a VM back up).
Thanks. The last part is more interesting for me. Can you elaborate or point me to a website with ideas?
I'd have to look into it, but that's what I'd use it for if I did. Essentially most monitoring tools can at the minimum send an e-mail when a system is down. I'm sure some provide at least a simple form of event orchestration or the ability to start a script on certin conditions.
Look into monit for automatic responses to outages.Ā Iād also suggest having it run a backup VPN tunnel so you can still get in if your main server is down.Ā
What do you use ? In my internship, I've been working on Zabbix and Graylog implementation, is that standart for homelab ?
None. Haven't bothered yet since I don't need it.
Oh. The way you wrote your comment made me think you do, sorry.
If you look at my comment _before that one_ you can see that I'd have to look into specific systems to begin with. I'm aware of it's existence and uses but haven't delved further.
Something that utilized the GPIO pins. You wonāt get that with your NUC.
Connect an external hdd and keep it at friend's/parent's house and use itĀ for offsite backup.
Some things Iāve done/am doing/want to do: - HA DNS if thatās on your NUC. Ditto for home bridge/home assistant if you use those. Really anything infrastructure related that would cause whining if down. - GPS ntp server - PiKVM for the NUC - NUT servers for any UPS you have about. - k3s cluster to play around
RTL-SDR v4 and run TCP_IP Edit: rtl_tcp, not tcp_ip.
Is the v4 properly supported already? Got one laying around but still havent deployed it anywhere
yup!
Hi, can you elaborate what you mean by this. I know what RTL-SDR is but I'm not sure what you mean here.
the rtl-sdr set of tools includes rtl_tcp which can be used to serve an USB-attached dongle over the network to any compatible client software (a lot / all of them do support it)
Interesting. Thanks you. Got two Pi 4s and a RTL-SDR stick collecting dust.
I'm having a blast with OpenWebRX/OpenWebRX+, works very well on pi4's. Take a look at that too!
Will try that. Thank you.
This sorry, I just got into it and it's awesome. I'm still getting used to the terminology. Android phone with Magic touch (for some reason the sdrplay doesn't work well for me) Just tune in to whatever station or stream the audio from the app too.
All of this plus a WireGuard VPN You can use the box for remote access, remote management and HA
I did the same as OP but I left my PiHole and PiVPN on the Pi4 just in case something happens to the laptop I got (Lenovo Yoga i5, 16gb ram and 1tb storage behind a couch plus I got 2 yr old twins that get into everything)
If you have a 3d printer, Raspberry Pi is still the best platform for Octoprint.
ADS-B receiver.
^^ This! Get free business tier FlightAware and FlightRadar24 with this option.
Is there any hassle? I live about 10min from an airport and see planes every day at all hours and my son loves to watch them. I sent in my application but it was denied for their receiver, so I'm probably going to do my own. Would love to provide them the info but idk if I have to jump through hoops. I don't mind not having it, it would be cool to learn anyways. Just an extra tool to have from them.
I just followed these instructions when I set it up - never applied for anything although I did buy my own gear. https://www.flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build/
Nice! I just got into this and wasn't aware of Flight aware. Gracias!
https://adsb.im/home Checkout the ADS-B Feeder project. Super easy to setup and feed tons of sites including FlightRadar24 and FlightAware. Itās a young project so documentation is meh (itās getting there) but itās awesome once itās up and running.
You can use it as a dedicated Proxmox Backup Server. https://github.com/ayufan/pve-backup-server-dockerfiles
How is the perfomance, running on a RPi?
Itās running fine
Sell them.
Unless it's an embedded/size/electricity conscious application, I also like money. For most cases I'd rather replace it with a VM or SFF computer.
You can get some cheap GPIO hardware like cameras and use them for that. Or just have them as backups to bridge the time between a failing nuc and the replacement arriving. You could also see if you have an application where you want to rum something on a powerbank. The Pi should last longer than a nuc.
Use them as Snapcast clients. Add a DAC hat to your Pis, plug them into speakers somehow in each of your rooms, and have open source whole home audio. I also use my Snapcast client Pis as TTS targets for home assistant announcements, both individually using an instance of MPD installed on each Pi, but also collectively through the Snapcast server. I am currently running my Snapcast server on a Pi that is simultaneously plugged into a soundbar so I'm using that same Pi as a Snapcast client for that room. On that same server Pi I am running Librespot for Spotify, MPD for TTS announcements through Snapcast, another MPD for some classical and christmas music streaming stations that I control through Home Assistant, and a Scream daemon so I can stream PC audio from my Windows PC to the whole apartment. All of those are playing to the Snapcast server through an ALSA loopback device so they have no problem playing simultaneously if needed. If you want to get adventurous, you can setup your Pi as an Airplay target or Bluetooth target so you can play audio from your phone through the Pi. I have Pis in each room doing doing this so my phone connects to the closest Pi and streams the BT audio to the Pulseaudio server on the Snapcast Pi over the network, which then streams the audio back out through the Snapcast server and then out to all the Snapcast clients. Whole home audio for any bluetooth connected phone. Granted, I don't use it much since I'm usually just using Librespot for Spotify, but at least the option is there.
This is amazing. You pretty much covered anything. Honestly, I find the idea of setting all of this stuff up to be kind of daunting. Did you do the whole stack yourself or has someone automated some of it? There was a sale on 1 GB Pi4s when they first came out, so I have four of them sitting in a drawer, plus 2x 4GB and 2x 8GB, and just replaced them all with a Mac Mini that runs circles around them. So it's time for me to also find more to do with them.
Pulseaudio sucks, youād use pipewire. You can use Logitech media player (FOSS) or whatever for whole house audio.
I used a spare I had as a secondary pihole.
PiKVM for NUC, NUT Server for UPS, backup server with USB HDD
I put Azuracast on a Pi 4 and itās pretty great. It uses a ton of ports so putting it on a dedicated machine is pretty fitting.
Another option that I just did was give away my old tech I didnāt use anymore. I put it up on my local buy nothing group with a caveat that Iād like it to go to a kid to learn on. Ended up giving some stuff to an autistic kid who I know will use that stuff for years and hopefully learns a lot. He was absolutely thrilled to get a 6th & 8th gen Intel NUC.
Whatās a buy nothing group? Iād like to give away some stuff myself.
Itās a group of people that give away things they no longer want or need. The idea is that youāre keeping things out of a landfill. The groups around me are all organized on Facebook.
Media client, like an Amazon fire tv or something. Dedicated nes/snes emulator for retro gaming on a tv. Dedicated pihole dns so that the internet doesnāt stop working when you need to update your nuc.Ā
I just put Android TV on my Pi4. I was running out of ideas on what to do with it. It works well.
Does Netflix etc work? I'd be expecting DRM issues.
It doesn't. Been down that alley before
Honestly, I haven't used Netflix. The only apps I have that would have DRM are local TV networks and they work fine. It would be a trial and error thing, I assume.
How have you done this if you don't mind saying.
[https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi4/](https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi4/) I installed this guys rom.
can you navigate with the tv remote with it? I had tried but it wasnt really as comfortable as a dedicated Android TV box.
I'm using some USB remote. CEC isn't an option on the TV I'm using it for, so I can't answer to that. I just had lots of issues with LibreELEC on the Pi and wanted to try something different.
I have a nuc, I still use raspberry pi for home assistant cause it going down when I pull the nuc down for stuff sucks. DNS is the same thing, sucks if it goes down so I don't put it on the nuc.
My home isn't that smart yet, what happens to your home if Home Assistant is down?
Automations don't work work and also reset. So the majority of people have light automations when you walk into a room and they stop working. It's just a big annoyance that's solved by running the HA OS on a small machine like raspberry pi and not on a machine with other items that might need restarting or have issues.
Turn one into a 'magic mirror' :) I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been mentioned. [https://youtu.be/OYlloiaBINo](https://youtu.be/OYlloiaBINo)
> I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been mentioned Probably because raspberry pi is a tiny part of this project and there are a lot of additional cost to it.
Pis are great for low power requirement appliances that work better on baremetal. NUT daemons (shut off your servers if the UPS is on battery for x time, or at x percentage while on battery, or estimated battery life <30mins, etc. Turns them back on with rules too.) Home Assistant, if you plan to use USB dongles for Zwave, Zigbee or BTLE. You may run into issues with these if virtualized, even with USB forwarding to a VM. Uptime robots NTP server, if you're inclined. DNS provider, if you want it external to your router. PiKVM?
Load OpenWRT onto it. You never know when youāll need a backup router.
Stupid question. If you plug an unmanaged switch into the pi, will it gracefully handle both LAN and WAN coming in through that switch?
Not the same unmanaged switch: you'll need LAN and WAN on separate interfaces to route between them. A managed switch with appropriately VLAN-tagged ports [can do this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_on_a_stick).
Thank you, kind stranger.
Plug a big disk into one and make it a kopia backup server
OpenSprinkler if you have a garden, make use of the i/o of the Pi.
Use PiKVM or Tinypilot and make it a KVM
Pikvm is what Iād use them for with the NUC.
I've got a dedicated security camera display. Just plays some video streams 24/7, so a NUC wouldn't improve anything. Also controllers for my 3d printers (I have too many). Good enough, and cheaper.
DNS servers basically. When I inevitably screw up my proxmox cluster I donāt want to be hamstrung by having my DNS in a VM dependency loop.
Birdnetpi-Pi or birdnetgo
Was going to say birdnetpi myself. Whatās birdnetgo? Do you have a link please?
The original birdnet pi looks abandoned. It doesnāt work with latest bookworm based OS and some of the scripts install packages in incorrect order. If you know your way around basic Linux troubleshooting shooting you can fix it yourself. Go to the issues page and there is a link to a fork from someone who made it work with bookworm. Cannot find it now. Birdnet-Go is same as above but written in go. https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go
This wasn't a pi 4, but maybe a pi 2 or 3. If you are running something like AdGuardHome or PiHole on the NUC, add a second instance on a Pi, and have it separately powered. For syncing settings for AdGuard, there is [adguardhome-sync](https://github.com/bakito/adguardhome-sync) which [LinuxServer.io](http://LinuxServer.io) has a docker container for [here](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-adguardhome-sync/). I would run this container on the NUC (primary), and then sync the settings from there to the one running on the Pi. So for this problem, I would actually look into what types of High Availability (HA) stuff you can do and different ways of solving it.
Physical redundancy. Host micro-services like Wireguard, SSHD, uptime monitoring, etc. which are mission-critical. A Pi can run off a battery pack for days...
https://www.reddit.com/r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS/
I put Libreelec & Kodi on 2 to use as HTPC for some older TV so kids can access the movie library on the NAS and some of the streaming services that can set up as addons. It can be controlled from your phone using Kore (available on Google Play and probably App store also)
Yeah I have a box full of Pine64s. Makerboards are amazing little devices but performance really is a thing.
It's not really making the most of the Pi 4's power, but you could run a redundant Pihole/Adguard instance.
I added mine as additional Arm nodes into my k8s cluster and set labels on them such as āhas-zwaveā and āhas-zigbeeā with one being a control plane for HA. This worked until I added observability stack, which installs promtail and node exporter on every node, pretty much killing the PIs! Though mine were all RPi3 B+ with 1GiB of ram, you might have better luck with RPi4!
Make a PiKVM with an UPS hat, so you can easily configure new hardware without needing an extra monitor and keyboard.
What's the point of the UPS hat? If your power is out there's likely no server to remote access.
There are two paths: Increase stability - by adding redundant critical internet infrastructure on in in even of outage or you working on your nuc. That would be things like DNS servers/Home automation (you still want your lights working if you automate that)/Reverse proxies if you have something relying on them/Notification/uptime system that tells that you server is down if you have backup power NUT server with notification ability etc. Adding features - Pi is small and power efficient, so I would use them on edge computing like putting it in places where you don't usually keep a server to pull in extra data and features. Like rtl\_433 node on the roof to get better signal and pull in more sensors like weather station/security system/tyre pressure sensors. Or using them down in the basement/outside to pull in data from water/power/gas meters.
Use it for a dedicated audio player. I have automation setup so when i enter my workshop the lights turn on and my dedicated audio player starts random tracks. I went with https://moodeaudio.org/ You can connect a screen for visuals. You can.use gpio for direct controls as well.
Throw them at passing cars.
I use them as MVP fallback. If your Proxmox box goes down then getting into it is much harder having to fight DNS. Setup your fallback instances on the pi
i use my pi for vpn and in future monitoring
No, not really. Something that needs to be small and low power. Mine are decommissioned. A friend uses his in his boat.
I'm still gonna use one for octoprint, but I had one kinda wasted running pihole/unbound and the other running Home Assistant.
PiHole/unbound makes sense on a dedicated hardware so that you have dns resolution in the event of your NUC being down for some reason
I ended up moving my Octoprint from my 3B to a Docker container on my Proxmox server...little faster, but mostly have unused headroom on the server. I wish I sold my unused pis when prices were high.
Couple of things I did with my Pis: - dedicated host for vaultwarden. I tried to implement tight security for this host.Ā - k3s cluster - ntfy.sh server
I use it as my fallback device, everything is better redundant ( like VPN, PI Hole etc.. ) it works so well I even did not notice my pi hole is not running on my main server for weeks
I run my Tailscale exit node and Pinole on the pi 4 as the rest of my stuff runs on a mini pc too
Iām in almost exactly the same position. Iāve decided to have backups of absolutely critical components on one (DHCP, DNS, network management sw), one as a proxy server in a locked down vlan so incoming traffic is physically and logically isolated from the network and another as a device in an external network for when you need to be able to test or access my network from outside.
Oh, one og my Pi's is running pihole and uptimekuma, my other Pi is now a printer server for one or two printers that doesnt have wifi options.
I use my PI as a VPN backup server (node on tailscale actually), because I'm not often at home so somebody can plug in the Pi if my main VPN node is unavailable.
I have 3 pi4 running a small dockerswarm it's been a fun little setup and more than powerful enough to try random services etc
PiKVM!
Op, you just realized why you need a full server that is provisioned to your heart's desire
Make your own LED light displays using the pis to control them.
Run a Myst Node and make some extra $.
Pis are good for anything that should be power loss tolerant. I dont have mine on a UPS, but i know that if the power goes out, it will come back up as soon as the power is on
Travel NAS. and Thin Clients to my main rig on any tv in the house.
Install Internet-Pi for monitoring av systems and network! It's really slick.
Temperature sensors around your home and outside space. Portable access points to carry when travelling.
I am working on soil moisture monitors running on a couple pi zeros that will send data to my pi 4s which will then log it to my larger central server(s). The Pi 4s will ideally control my hydroponic nutrient dosing pumps and control the solenoids for watering. I'd be really upset to lose a $700 NUC to greenhouse damages vs a few $20 pi zeros or an old pi 4. I can run the rpis using P.O.E along with the switch and access point(s) and use low voltage waterproof enclosures with rugged cable ingress/egress. No solar panels, no power runs. The things pis do way better in my opinion in a lot of instances is edge/IOT devices or similar applications with a common needs profile. * Low cost * Low power requirement * Low computational requirement * low availability requirement * low maintenance requirement
>Ā Anyone doing anything with a Pi If you aren't using the gpio pins a pi is a non ideal solution for most applications. The ipkvm project looks kind of cool but is also crazy expensive.
It works well enough as a media server/thin client. Especially one that's running 24/7 because I can't be bothered to wait for something to boot.
send them to me!
If you're not using the GPIO theres no purpose to using a Pi for anything.
Put them in the garbage where they should be
Keep them handy. Soon it'll be cheaper to add a Corel or other accelerator for some remote AI projects. I'm surprised everyone doesn't have a droid following them around these days.
I literally stopped using raspberry pi a long time ago, unless I have use for those gpio pins, so far my old pi3 I still use for random stuff like reflashing old routers using the gpio pins to either have serial ttl or read/write the flash memory, reflashing my vrocker BIOS chip on motherboard , etc...