Ask HN: What are you using your Raspberry Pi for?

4 pointsby chirau8 hours ago5 comments

chrismelleran hour ago
My main one is for ADSB using adsb-lol.
I also have the Pimoroni Enviro+ in my living room. I've got their Grow kit somewhere as well, but... no plants since I moved.
I used to have a Kubernetes cluster running on some Pi3's, but they got a little too slow and I was bumping up against the lower memory. Lots of other self-hosted stuff, but it's all on some old off-lease computers I found cheap, not on a Pi.
serf8 hours ago
I have one running home assistant, I have one running a duet web server for a printer, and I have one that runs cncjs for a mill.
the home assistant one runs a reverse proxy and adguard/tailscale docker among other things.
they're useful but the price point sucks right now unless you absolutely need the IO ports/shields they provide. I have a PoE shield on my home assistant one that makes the installation very tidy.
fiscalnonsense6 hours ago
In active use:
retropie - pi3b+
gps based ntp (2x pi2 + gps hats. Chrony rocks.)
rtl_433 monitor for 915 and another for 433 (2x pi2, 2x rtl-sdr sticks)
an ads-b 1090 monitor (pi3 + rtl-sdr stick)
libreelec - plex clients (2x pi4 (1GB and 2GB)
an emulated macintosh (pi3)
a flood monitor in the basement (pi1)
an aarch64 dev platform (cm4-8GB) and another (pi5-8GB)
- chrismeller2 hours ago
  Can I ask for a few more details on your GPS NTP setup? That thought popped into my head the other day but I can't think of a real reason to do it, it'd really just be a cool way to waste some time.
mr_sturd8 hours ago
My longest running Raspberry Pis are using HifiBerry HATs. Acting as SnapCast clients, forming a poor man's Sonos system throughout the house. The oldest running Pi is a 2.
tobinfekkes8 hours ago
PiHole