What do you do with your pi?
>>107067799I have a first generation model B from way back. I use it to run d*scord bots mostly.
>>107067834What did your discord bots do? And why did you use that over just a regular app on your pc?
>>107067799Its.... complicated
>>107067799I used it to control my old dehumidifier but that eventually broke and the new one has its own control that sorta works so now my rpi 1b of some vintage is sitting in a shoe box for 2 years
I used to use them to run the stuff I now run in containers. Now I just keep them in a drawer. I used the 0Ws which cost $3.14 and I think used 1.5 W. Incredibly cheap, the sd cards cost more. Even now they barely take up any drawer space.
>>107067799240p emulation mostly.
>>107067907Yikes
hidden remote VPN server connected to my old dorm's wifi
>>107067846>what botsBack in 2021, I had a simple chatbot that'd call the API of a machine learning startup I worked at, before the AI boom began proper. It was pretty retarded, but had no censorship and minimal promptfaggery, so it was pretty fun to mess around with, users kept trying to gaslight it and make it become unhinged and it was very funny. One guy tried to ERP with it but that was embarrassing. I only deployed it on a handful of private servers ran by friends though. Having multiple bot accounts go back and forth was also funny, but they usually devolved into repetitive behavior, like calling each other increasingly creative insults due to anti repeating bias on generated tokens. I shut them down when I left the company. The other guys ended up rich.Later I made a dice-rolling bot with functionality other ones either didn't have or did poorly, nothing interesting to talk about.I also had a bot that allowed users to send messages to all "linked" server channels, allowing users to communicate anonymously across servers, without even knowing what those other linked servers were. It was deployed on a dozen (unrelated but similarly autistic) small and medium sized servers at most, but the experiment ended when someone found out the bot had embed-link perms on other servers and proceeded to spam shock images through it. Most of the servers freaked out and removed the bot, and so it went inactive and I shut it down.>why on a PiBecause I often put my computer into sleep or hibernate. The Pi is always on, I can leave it running for weeks without issue.
>>107067799drawer-space-taker-upper
>>107067907What's that underneath your table?
>>107068085i think its a dog
an led wall clock using an 120 led individually adressable light strip, programmed myself (using python - ewww) and with an IR receiver compatible with the typical 44 button RGB-strip remotes for controlling background-colors, clock-colors, background-type + animations (single color - fading between all selected colors, dual-color - fading inside and outside individually, gradients: conic, horizontal, vertical - rotating when animating)I think an arduino would have been the better option, but idk how to make an arduino get the current time since they don't have a persistent clock, so I had to use this overpriced piece of shit Pi5
>>107067799I don't have one yet, I think I'll wait for a rp6. Good Ps2/GC emulation would be cool and also an arm linux machine, to toy around.
>>107068170In your case, i think a ESP32 would be a good middle of the road solution, as it's basically an internet enabled arduino pretty much.
>>107067799I put my pi ZeroW2 into wifi monitor mode to pick up my Xbox controller trying to connect to my PC. After detection, it flashes a led which boots my pc from a cold start. It's exactly like a Xbox 360. What about you Anon?
minecraft server
>>107068213I think I have one of those, but it outputs only 3.3v and the PI delivers the whole 5v I need for the LEDs
>>107067799leave it in the drawer, all my.rasp pis been replaced by much more useful radxa rock 5 boards (a rock 5 itx in my NAS, and a rock 5 c operating a tvheadend box from the shed over WiFi because the antenna wiring in my house is fucked)
>>107067799Mostly as a torrent box and NAS, with a 5TB HDD hooked up serving movies over samba. I just watch things with Kodi on an Nvidia Shield and have never understood why anyone needs netflix or plex or any of that shit. Recently made it into a tailscale exit node too. Most of the other things I tried failed because I'm not autistic enough to torture myself learning linux
I compiled llama cpp to serve a 0.5b qwen model that makes a shitpost on tweeter about random yugioh cards every two hours.
>>107067799we use them as inexpensive SBC's to establish a secure session over the internet to a cloud voip serverjust slap a POE hat on it and plug into a switch port that has power after its configured
>>107067799>4b, a retro machine>Zero, last used for long-term tracking of crypto values. May dust off and use for updating DNS records.>Pico, was going to make miniOS with a pimoroni screen+buttons hat, but the lipo battery shim has a power button that is failing in a few hundred clicks.I'm going to buy a 5 for a first time nas, but I am going to ditching using these things. More interested now in ESP32 chips and PCBs, specifically for use in electronic toys. Also DIY IoT but with LoRa would be fun to try.
>>107067846>What did your discord bots do? And why did you use that over just a regular app on your pc?nta but I also use it for bots. Its a one stop shop for issuing commands when I'm not around and some of the "bots" are really bridges to other chat services like IRC which are too garbage to run an actual client for. I do XDCC searches via !bang commands and initiate downloads anywhere plus it being Discord I can have it do push notifications rather than fag around setting up nonsense like gotify.
>>107068560>qwen 0.5BIt barely knows what yugioh is
>>107068037based
>>107067799It's collecting dust. I wanted to use one as a backup server and jukebox at one point to connect to my laptop over the wifi and then hook it up to the speakers which I was using an old normal computer for but the sound quality was very bad.It occurs to me now that I could've easily continued this plan with a USB->jack adapter of which I have plenty rather than using the jack on the board directly because USB->jack adapters have their own sound card but meh.
>>107068038How did the other guys end up rich?
>>107068489That's so great about radxa boards over pi?
>>107069245their rock 5 boards run the rockchip rk3588, which adds another 4 a55 cores on top of the same a76 cores as the pi 5's broadcom chip. they're available with more ram, eMMC module support, hardware video encoding/decoding (which the pi 5 dropped), actual full size HDMI port/ports (the rock 5 b even has HDMI in), great software support under armbian and quite a few other distros, a reasonably performant NPU and they're cheaper than the equivalent raspberry pi 5 modelsraspberry pi only really give a shit about their commercial and industrial clients now
>>107068846None of the local models do. Gemma 24b has the same level of understanding as the 0.5b model. Even gpt5 still gets tripped up by goat format rulings
>>107067799I use a nano pi r4s that I use as a router and home server. Works well.
>>107068392This is how to do ithttps://kno.wled.ge/basics/wiring-guides/
>>107067799I use it to drive an Internet-capable news ticker for my office so I can see "9/11 2 has just happened" at some point. I can show anything I want in it.
im going to be using one to drive a circuitbent speak and spell. the plan is to have it pair to a weird ass keyboard with a pico 2w inside it and a second pico 2w driving a microdisplay with a tui for a runsescape-like "quick chat" system to speak preconfigured or typed phrases.the pi can fit in a 1979 revision and expose its usb/ethernet ports, and theres plenty of room in the battery compartment to fit a lipo and power circuitry. the keyboard leads in the speak and spell will need to be rewired (which sucks because theyre seemingly made of steel? theyre extremely stiff) and the gpio header will need to be removed as well as using tons of kapton tape. i need to disassemble the keyboard anyway though because a few keys are mushy and have poor contact. i think i need to print some stiffeners because each half of the keyboard is only held in by 4 clips along the outside of the module.
i have a raspberry 4 compute module with an ehternet hat. having two ethernet ports it is my router. it runs nixos, which is quite nice.
>>107068240This is cool, can you point to any resources?I wonder if it can be done for Bluetooth as well...
>>107067799Literally nothing. Nothing I can do with it that I can't do with any other device. I was considering to make it a small underpowered terminal only programming rig so I can larp as a 90's developer because it is just collecting dust otherwise.
Adguard home and Unbound running on DietPi.
>>107067799PornNAS
>>107068170cool.>>107067799got RPi4 like 5 years ago and kept adding on services - NAS, chatbot, owncast, matrix bridge, crawler+feed, random python scripts...nuked it with DietPi about 6 months ago, now just running a chatbot swarm and my in-development elixir-based streaming-chat server that I use with friends. thinking about adding navidrome or something similar to it.picked up another RPi4 + 2 touchscreens for $120 used last week but idk what to do with them yet. any ideas? (right in picrel)
>>107069219It's really stupid but bear with me. Of all things, they pivoted into AI generated anime girl images, marketed it in Japanese, and because Japan and especially South Korea have no shortage of brain damaged degenerates, it turned into an infinite money printer. They made millions. I regret not getting anything out of it, but I had contributed very little to their success so it's fair.
>>107067799>What Do You Use Raspberry Pi For?deploy home assistant with the zigbee integration for my dad
Should I bother throwing money on a Pi 5? I'd like something portable to plug into a TV, browse the web, and play GOG games and standalone emulators.
>>107072639>browse the web, and play GOG gamesNo, its too weak for smooth web browsing.
>>107067799>What do with your pi?Which one?Pi4>pihole, pivpn, private nitter instancePi Zero 2 W>print server>plugged into USB port on printer>if printer has power, print server is running>solved all the fuckery w/ Windows printingPi 3b+>general fuck around device>reimage it from time to time
>>107067799I don't use Raspberry. But I do own a Russian Raspberry PI clone, which I use daily to support total destruction of Ukraine.
>>107072670Figures. Any ARM SBCs that could maybe do the job, or am I better off with the x86 boards?
This is my favorite thread on /g/ the past 2 days. It's so interesting to see everyone's projects.
I run a personal java server that I can keep always online and add anything I want to. Currently it mostly just has timer tasks that scrape websites periodically and track data I'm interested in. Also I keep a VPN server on it so I can connect to my home internet if I want, although I don't use this often.In the past I hosted personal sites on it but you can get much larger free servers so it's kinda redundant
>>107073248Let's keep it alive a little longer.Anyone using a Pi with an e-Ink display?
>>107067907>co2 sensor >02 sensor Growing pot?
Price is too high you should either buy a used 4 or something like an odroid. The entire purpose of these devices have been invalidated by greed
>>107074474>price is too highOnly if you're stupid, I paid £8 for my Pi Zero W.
I have a pi 4 running birdnetpi on my porch. And a pi 2 in a drawer that kept flaking out running little kiosk programs on a small display frame. I think the bundled Mathematica is kind of neat too, do they still have that?
BumpAlso I have a raspi 3b+ with it's 7 inch display as a retrogaming machine.
>>107067799OpenWebRX+
>>107067799
Pi 4 connected to living room TV, running Kodi.When quitting Kodi, Retropie starts automatically. The same happens in reverse. Kids love it.
My Pis are collecting dust nowadays. I used them to port/test my library for ARM and BSDs. Before that my first Pi (Model B 512 M of RAM) was a very slow seedbox
>>107067799I ended up building a home server using regular PC parts and got rid of my Raspberry Pis.
good thread
Home security motion detecting camera, that will text me the photo (thru email) when motion detected. Still need to figure out how to get photo or video remotely on demand
>>107077561based radiochad
>>107067799i use mine as a shitty NAS. Still have to get the 4 sata ports hat for more drives but they're expensive
Anybody have any use cases for the old raspberry pi 1 model b? What OS do you run on it? Are modern versions of Raspbian (Raspberry Pi OS) working on it? I have tried a Desktop Environment but it lags too much so I'm thinking of simply not running the desktop and only having a console. Maybe making a little portable linux console with built-in screen and keyboard
>>107067799vpn, searxng, jellyfin, qbittorrent, sonarr, dnsmasq, ...
>>107072705>authoritarian government engaging in pointless wars >:(>authoritarian government engaging in pointless wars, russia :0
>>107067799I have a few...The one I use most often is a Pi Pico 2, it's the brain of my PicoCalc (pic related). Basically it's a modern pocket computer and I run the default firmware which is a BASIC interpreter.I also have a Pi 3 model B. I use it as an MT-32 Pi module with the MiSTer FPGA which is very very good if you run any of the computer cores. I primarily use it with the X68000 core and the music is AMAZING.And I just picked up. Pi Zero 2 but I'm still waiting on that one to be delivered. My plan for it is a little convoluted/retarded. I bought the Commodore 64 Ultimate and am looking forward to receiving that in the coming weeks, it has a built in modem which is intended to be used for BBS and stuff like that but I had the retarded idea of trying to get it onto the modern web. The Pi Zero 2 will be a gate for the C64 and I'll funnel my traffic through it so that I can get onto HTTPS sites (not possible for older computers). The C64 will think it's connecting to a BBS over the local network and the PZ2 will basically run a BBS that is actually a text-based web browser. I'm not entirely sure if this idea will even work but I'm gonna try.I also have a Pi Pico 1 that isn't being used for anything.
>>107079876The 32-bit Raspbian works on all models: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/Pi 1B has S-Video out, so emulating some old consoles (up to NES) would be an idea.Retropie still supports it: https://retropie.org.uk/download/#Pre-made_images_for_the_Raspberry_PiOther than gaming, you could make it a photo frame, or LAN audio player hooked up to some amplifier/speakers.Then there are hobby electronics projects, which is the best use case for any Pi.
I run a bunch of low-bandwidth low-cpu services for myself, the most useful one being syncthing for my obsidian. But its handy whenever I need to automate something over the internet, >>107067834 discord bots are another example but I'm not doing that right now
>>107067799>pihole>reverse proxy to my home network>vaultwarden
>>107067799I have a Zero 2 W that I am pathetically trying to turn into a Miracast reciever but the latency is abysmal so I don't really know if the time I have spent working on it is totally wasted. I'm trying to decode 720p30 video with less than 500ms latency from the source but I can't even get close to that, maybe I'm just retarded, maybe the Miracast spec is shittier than I thought, I don't know. Should have probably bought a Pi 3 but I wanted it to be as low profile as possible, and the Zero 2 has hardware h264 decoding so I figured it would be enough.
>>107079943For electronics projects I am more inclined to use ESPs as I never really make anything which requires more processing power (Only sensors etc.). I was thinking of running my own gitlab server but I also have a n100 mini pc which I usually use for these things, especially because stuff like this is way easier on x86. Will see what I will make of this. Worst case I'm selling it for 15€
best thread on /g/ in weeks. It's cool seeing everyone's projects.
>>107067799The only thing my 3b+ is doing is seeding torrents 24/7/365 and it acts as a tailscale server so that i can access my devices while i'm not home.
>>107082760Based, my 3B+ used to be a 3G router, now after upgrading to fiber internet it was repurposed for qBittorrent and OpenVPN server.
Have one working as a remote opener for my garage doors over my phone. Could find info on the protocol used by the wired buttons for it (it multiplexes door open/close, lights and security lock over a single pair), so ended up cannibalizing an old switch I got of ebay, just setup a relay between the pads of the door open/close on it and drive that from the Pi. Next project is to wire one up to a flow meter and solenoid on my RO water filter setup to let me activate it on a timer and record usage to track filter and membrane life.
>>107067799nothingused to run docker containers on my 3b+, but it would crash every week or somoved everything to my laptop-server, pi went into drawer
Is there one of these low power boards that runs windows yet?
>>107068489I have one but I realized it is missing emmc and the cases are out of stock fucking everywhere.Why the fuck did they put the ethernet port on the wrong side? Rpi cases could have fit, but NOOO, they had to put the ethernet port there.
>>107084648I might add that I use NanoPi R6C and they are amazing. They also have a great metal cases that is a radiator itself.
>>107084663I like the idea of these chinese boards, they have much more variety of specs and configurations than Raspberries.I'll never buy one though since I haven't encountered one with a working GPU in all these years. By that I mean all of OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, hardware video decoding, HDMI CEC, HDMI hotplug.
>>107084609lattepanda IOTA, Radxa x4, basically any intel N-series chip sbc. Should have low idle, might be undervoltable too. Haven't tested them myself though so take that how you will
>>107085426I just use them as NAS devices so I really don't care about the GPU, but you're right, the drivers are a massive pain and you have to run their own retarded kernel forks with patched drivers that never are up-to-date. Chinks just refuse to submit their patches to mainline kernel as if it's garlic to a vampire.
I've got a 3b+ in the garage that is hooked up to a RTL-SDR listening to ADS-B. I see somewhere between 700 - 1,000 aircraft a day and I've got a shitty antenna but not crazy about going up on the roof and replacing it with a better one.
>>107082760Tailscale sounds interesting. I have a 3b+ that I'll put to do that.
>>107067799>What Do You Use Raspberry Pi For?I use a Raspberry Pi Pico W to calculate updated sunrise/sunset times daily and automatically opening and closing of my coop's run gate to let my chickens out into the pen and secure them at night.11/10 best thing ever and saves me a fuckton of time and money (if they dont go outside and scsvenge they eat more feed)
>>107086446>NASHow do they perform as NAS? I'm looking to replace my 3b+ with something different for it because the data transfer speed is painfully slow on it, newer raspberry pis that has usb3 ports are just way too expensive for what they are.
do any of you guys have any links to decent documentation about working with bluetooth in c?
>>107089713You should probably ask in /dpt/, but I think the bluez library is a good starting point.
>>107088735Why specifically follow the sun? Do predators not come during the day?
>>107067799I had a 4B collecting dust until I started using it as a router. I needed more advanced firewall settings than my ISP router or the other old router I had laying around would let me configure. So now I've got my ISP router in bridge mode, the pi running openwrt, and my other router acting as a wireless access point. A bit janky but it works, and I didn't need to buy any new hardware beyond a USB to Ethernet adapter for the pi.
>>107092207>Why specifically follow the sun?Because chickens will enter the coop right before sunset and leave the coop around sunrise>Do predators not come during the day?Not ground predators
>>107067907That's a beautiful clock, Ahmed.
For me? It's Le Potato
>>107092326I see, thanks.How do you control/move the gate?Also, have you looked into automated water and food dispensing?I would like to keep some chicks but lack of automation means I wouldn't be able to go away for more than a day.
>>107068037Unfathomably based
>>107092419°o°
>>107092419>Le Potato is our flagship hardware platform with support for the latest Android 9kek, nice description, I guess it died at 9
>>107092548>How do you control/move the gate?The muscle of the gate is this hydraulic adjustable arm with ~500lbs of force i got for super cheap, and came with a small solar panel, charge controller board, controller board, with remote keyfob for operation (think of the setup as designed to operate a gated swing open driveway)The controller board has a bunch of breakout board connectors and i use the microcontroller to drive a relay that connects one board connector to another which triggers the gate>have you looked into automated water and food dispensing?Yes, I put gutters on the chicken coop and use corrugated pond tuping to feed it into a big tupperwear container with watering nipples. It keeps them well supplied and i just have to scrub it every 3 months or so to remove algae. I also made giant wasteless gravity feeders out of PVC pipe and they last about a week and a half, maybe longer>lack of automation means I wouldn't be able to go away for more than a dayI could go a week and a half; my only limit is the feed supply. If i were to be gone longer i could just add more feeders. I was gone for a week on a business trip and my mom insisted on coming over to "help with the chickens" and she quite literally did nothing lmao, except throw them food scraps i suppose but she didnt refill anything
>>107092419that thing is fucking slow.
>>107067922>emulationWhy?Serious question.>>107067799>What do you do with your pi?Pi 5 is literally dead now.>4K video output for god knows who and what reason>Requiems a fucken fan negating any use cases that are not turbo retarded.The truth is that after the Pi 2 there are no use cases for more Pis>b-b-b-b- muh emulation muh 4K videoJUST BUY A USED LAPTOP YOU RETARDED FUCK!The Pi was used to control robotic and other small things. A fucken FAN negates the use of it.imagine a FAN on an arm processor!
>>107093103The Pi 5 is the only generation I don't have, purely because I have two Pi 4B (4GB) which I got for a very good price.Can't wait for the Pi 6, the Pi 4 can't cope with emulating Carmageddon.>USED LAPTOPNo HDMI CEC, no point.
>>107093315>No HDMI>Laptop no HDMI>Laptop no HDMI>Laptop no HDMI
>>107093492Learn to read.
>>107067799Christmas is getting closer, so soon I will be pulling out my trusty RPi1 to drive my Christmas tree lights.
>>107093315>No HDMI CECThis confuses and enrages the zoomer.>Noo I have to wast 1 secondTime to get your exercise you fat zoomeroid!>>107093526>HDMI Is dead use display port.
>>107089055They work well. The NanoPi R6S I use with any IcyBox enclusore for 2 drivers with ZFS and it works nicely. But nowadays I'd go straight for Rock 5B+ which has 2x M.2 slots so I could have a mirror ZFS pool directly connected to it rather than through USB 3.1.https://radxa.com/products/rock5/5bp/I have the 5b which I use for an Ethereum node and it perform very well, but I wish i had 2x M.2 for better data security.
>>107094663Fuck wrong pic.
>>107067799lakka(retroarch)osmc(kodi)https://osmc.tv/https://www.lakka.tv/
libreelec, a bunch of docker stuff, capturing video of my vivarium
>>107094676Oh, and pro tip, use this UEFI bootloader for RK3588 boards, it's the best:https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588
>>107094972or not, you can do rk3588 without uefi and it works just fine.
>>107094998Sure, but it depends on OS, I've had trouble with a few distros with NVMe boot. Booting from emmc or usb works fine in any scenario tho as far as I know.
>>107067799I just finneshed a project in which I had to program a HMI and state machine in a raspi to interact with a plc, a server running in another raspberry (which I also programmed) and a bunch of other stuff, for an industrial control system. So I used mine to develop and try things out.
>>107088735>to calculate updated sunrise/sunset times daily>to let my chickens out into the pen and secure them at night.>11/10 best thing everAbsolutely, anon, absolutely. That amazed me and made me laugh.
>>107067799data collection
>>107068489I used to use my old Raspberry pi3 as a home media server. When it came time for an upgrade, I almost bought a Pi-5 until I came across the Rock5B.It's wild just how much better the new Raspberry Pi competitors are for not much more money (bought mine before the import tariffs hit in the US )I still have my RPi-3, but now I use it as a test rig for anything I'm thinking about installing on the Radxa. Overall, it really feels like the Pi foundation had gotten greedy. Their hardware and documentation are amazing, but the actual specs of their products arent worth the asking price when there are so many valid alternatives.
A server for my own personal samba shares due to lack of adequate usb inputs for all of my spinning rust. No "cloud," containers, plex, jellyfin, or any of that.
>>107093591>CEC is just for changing inputsYou're clueless.>using two remotesHow's living in 1995 working for you so far?>DP on a TVOf all the three (3) models that have it, I don't own any. Also, no DP CEC.
>>107097026>How's living in 1995 working for you so far?I wish I could go back.
>>107067799remotely activated/deactivated dildo for my gf (male)
>>107067907post dog
>>107092714Nice overview, much appreciated.
