I got a RPi 3B as my Pi-Hole that I'll eventually use as my Wireguard VPN, too. Hoping to get another Pi device for hosting Jellyfin on.
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I bought a pi0 when I first started hosting things. It ran a pihole and piVPN instance for about 3-4 years before it died.
I would love to have another one, they are great pieces of hardware.. but are just scalped to hell. I'll keep buying old desktops and laptops with higher specs for cheaper until the costs go down.
I have one 3B running adguard and a wireguard vpn server. Another 4B doing the same, plus kitchenowl and home assistant.
Only use it as a backup pihole now. Used to have an *arr stack on it, but needed a beefier pc
I use it for WOL on my PC
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.
1 Pi 4 for two things
- Download media over a persistent VPN that auto-moves to my NAS
- Fun play toy as a dev box to test new tech and try to stay current and keep my Linux skills sharp since I use osx at work
1 ends up blocking 2
I really want to buy like 5 or 6 with temp sensors to put around the house to see how good my heating/ac are working, and confirm wifi strength
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.
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.
I use my pi for 3dprinting management.
Pi 3b to run syncthing
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.
Testing ideas with kubernetes before moving to the POC stage
ADS-B antenna that feeds Flightaware, FlightRadar24, and ADSBexchange
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.
I have 3 of the 3rd generation ones to mess around on.
I currently have Pi-hole and Unbound running on my pi4
I have a Pi 3 running Home Assistant. I also have two Pi Zeros that I have MP4 Museum installed.
I use MP4 Museum to run projected Halloween decorations mostly but it's great to have a little box that will take a video file from a thumbdrive and dump it out the HDMI port on boot.
pi3 once died on me so i tried pine64 sbc and they never die...so no, i wont buy pis anymore.
I have a single Raspberry Pi 3b as a local file/media server running Jellyfin. I'm also running BOINC and seeding torrents of various Linux distributions. External HDD for storage, plus a thumb drive for the local media and another for the torrents so it only has to spin up when someone's actually using it.
It's not super-fast by any means, but it's fast enough to listen to music over my LAN, which is the main thing I need it to do quickly. Though eventually I plan on setting up a better NAS on something with faster I/O.
I have a water container I need to take care of in my house. An ultrasonic sensor hooked to my raspberry 3b uploads the collected data to my vps that later serves an html through Flask to show the water level. It has a few alarms so that I can take action at the appropriate time. The ultrasonic sensors HC-SR04 suck and I have to replace them quite frequently. Other then that it works really well.
Use an old Pi 3B for running zigbee2mqtt on docker.
I used to run just the Linux version of it but decided to install docker on the Pi so it's as easy as doing docker-compose pull to update it.
This is so I can control my various lights and switches using Home Assistant.
I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.