Raspberry pi thread

What's yours doing?

I setup mine to host a blog on my raspi2.
Using hugo for it, which works pretty great until now.
github.com/spf13/hugo
Maybe I'll move from apache2 down to lighttp, but not sure yet. Does any one know if it would theoretically be faster?

Also using it as a VPN gateway to access muh home network.
using pivpn for it. Holy shit. This is really fuckin comfy to setup.
pivpn.io/

Other urls found in this thread:

mysensors.org/
domoticz.com/
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

Model A (256MB RAM): functioning as a webcam with the pi camera and uploads a picture to my VPS every 5 minuts. Also I attached a AM2302 sensor to print the temperature and humidity onto the taken picture with imagemagick. I'm runnning arch linux arm on it.
Model A+ (512MB RAM): running a tor node (no exit) running raspian
Model B V1.1: laying around my desk, I'm using it for long running task like badblocksscan of old harddrives etc. running raspian right now

Running Retropie with a iBuffalo USB gamepad. I also use it to run kodi through the ports section in emulation station. It's the Pi 3 Model B.

Dollecting cust

Anyone have any cool home automation projects theyve done with theirs?

Currently running pi-hole on it. Best use for otherwise nearly useless hardware, would highly recommend.

I have a Pi 3 and Pi Zero on my desk now. I'm going to use the Pi 3 to manage a few cron jobs on my home network. Haven't figured out anything cool for my the Zero yet. Maybe make a bedside alarm clock since I'm currently using an iPad.

I had setup mysensors once.
mysensors.org/

using domoticz as a frontend
domoticz.com/

You could fuckin configure everything you need on it, but I was too lazy to make myself a cool monitor showing all kinds of data n shit. A touchscreen on muh wall would have been nice to control everything and show like weather data or shit. Maybe someday I'll try it again

just use nginx ya dingus

Riot.im/matrix dedicated server

mine runs a weatherstation which measures humidity, temperature, pressure and windspeed; a python script logs all data and saves the plots into the path of the webserver, so i can view it from my network

It's my aarch64 osdev platform, currently working on a Forth OS.
I know raspberry's are not ideal for that because of the closed gpu firmware, but it has so many convenient peripheral support that makes it easy to setup a mini tft screen and usb ftdi cable for communication and visual feedback.
Ultimately I will probably make my own board, but for now the pi3 is sufficient.

>What's yours doing?
Gathering dust on a shelf since I found out how limited it is.

>pihole
>apache to hold my projects
>vsftp to move exploits in my lab
>minidlna to stream porn to my ipad

Thats about all I think. Set it to be ssh key only so Im fine with it being public facing.

Retropie on a 3B with my Dualshock 4, I'm currently learning programming though so I'll hopefully figure out something more exciting to do with it later

Where do you learn about this stuff?

installed Arch with i3 on it use it for chromium/torrenting/vlc/NAS/and like FTP server so i can grab my files from remote locations

mine sits in a drawer gathering dust, because actually doing things besides posting on Sup Forums and browsing other sites, while eating and occasionally browsing other sites and watching netflix/hulu, WHY CAN'T I JUST DO THINGS.

>WHY CAN'T I JUST DO THINGS.
you can.
Just start right now.
Start with anything. It doesnt even matter what you do. Just start.

retro gaymen

links look interesting, thanks for sharing OP.

Not him, but I can tell you from experience that you can learn to write an OS by lurking on Sup Forums and watching anime all day.

Mine is an Orange Pi Zero with a 2TB hard drive via USB but it's doing the same shit most Pis do, works as a VPN gateway, Seedbox, a mini samba NAS and Owncloud.

$11 well spent imo.

Powers my file server.
Stream anime to my computer from wherever and upload my files for later use.

not bad desu

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what

I have mine running nodejs and a bunch of Sup Forums/reddit scraping scripts I wrote during a time in my life when I was in love with javascript.

It also runs a webcam and humidity/temp sensor for my ball python enclosure.

I am thinking of getting a second one for retro games, but I've done that project a couple times now and it never seems to actually get much use once it's completed, it may just not be for me.

The Pi3 makes a pretty decent development station, I may use it to make an ultra-slim workstation out of an extra monitor I have and setup a development machine at my solder station in the garage.

I primarily use it as a SPI flasher, and I use it to play with i2c as well, which can be a pain in the ass cause the 3.3v reg
on the original pi is shit (and the 5v honestly), I am thinking about just making a ATMega daughter board specifically for
working with SPI flash in 8 pin and 16 pin variants.

I was running FreeBSD on it for around a year but now I am running Funtoo and cross compiling shit for it.
I would like to get into bare metal development on the arm platform sometime as well, but I am still working on my x86 kernel so that is going to have to wait.

I have been considering getting a Pi3 just because of the switching mode regulator vs the linear regulator and the 3.3v supply on the Pi3 is apparently much improved

Anyone who says there is nothing to do on the rpi just doesn't know what they are doing.

I have a pi mini rigged up inside of a small enclosure with a portable battery pack. The battery pack is powerful enough to power the pi even with wifi blasting for about twelve hours. I have a few of those tiny flash drives attached, about 512GB of storage total. A local coffee shop to me has fiber internet and never changes the password. I go in there, and inside their bathroom I place the enclosure (about the size of a thick cell phone) in the ceiling on top of the wall. The tiles are loose and lift right up.

I connect to it from home and use the transmission remote to download whatever I want. I go in the next day to pick it up. I'm thinking of instead hiding it behind the sink in one of the cabinets in there, or finding some way to hide it where it can get power. For now the battery pack is working well.

They also have good sandwiches.

I played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for two hours

Mine's tied into an entire collection of home automation tech and running home-assistant to coordinate it all, still playing around with it, but works quite well

>Currently running pi-hole on it
Got two currently running for this / local dns purposes, supremely comfy

>home automation tech and running home-assistant

I am actually doing wifi RC project, and using raspberry pi on it.

Why do you have a Pi, the controller, AND a breadboard? I'm pretty sure you can Jerryrig the servos directly into part of the Pi, or at least you can with one of the models.

yeah im sure I can, but I wanted to practice my soldering, on future project I will be planning to 3d print rc car and use motors, H bridge, ESC, Actually im not sure if I need all of those, but I was just skimming in some guides about it.

the breadboard was just for testing purpose, I mean I always figured that is why people use bread boards, to test the wiring before making it final.

how about you stop being a faggot and do it right in the first place then?

fucking retard pifags being a waste of space as usual with MUH HOBBY

no people use breadboards because they fucking suck at planning and design

typical pifag

Waiting for a controller for an LCD panel. Building my wife a Magic Mirror for her make up desk.

>Hurr my way is the right way, everyone else is doing it wrong

get a load of this guy.

>hurr I am on my high horse, I don't use a breadboard, hurr hurr hurrr

HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Next time add a comma to your sentence. Look like a fucking idiot.

>Bitches about punctuation.
>Doesn't start sentence with capital letter.

1 rpi2 & 1 rpi3 running osmc, play videos from lan share, music
1 rpi3 as retropie with a couple shanwan PS3 controllers

This is what pifags actually believe

Can you recommend me an HDMI screen or an USB touch screen I can use with it but that doesn't cost too much? (20-25 USD budget).

PIFAGGOTRY

>order 4 Orange Pi zeros for $40
>drop each of them in public WiFi with reverse ssh configured

Enjoy.

>drop each of them in public WiFi with reverse ssh configured
I'm a massive pleb but interested, please explain further.

>finally got openvpn settings working on my NAS so I can stop using my rpi3 as a torrent box
probably going to use it as a plex player for the bedroom.
Also have an orange pi zero, but that piece of shit seems useless.

essentially the ssh connection will come back to you, and then whatever address you provide you can connect back to the orange pi.

google reverse ssh tunnel or just reverse ssh. It will show examples, and explain whats what.

I did this with my 703n with openwrt, had fun with it. I am planning to do it again once I can control my router for port forwarding.

how the fuck do you manage that?
I have a opi z too and tried to use it for torrenting.
It ran at high load as soon as transmission was installed and was super slow even via ethernet.
It would drop to 0kbps constantly and it would max out at about 300kBps.
the rpi3 I used the same way downloaded the same torrent over wifi at 2MBps.

I'm using Deluge for the Seedbox part, wanted to use qBittorrent but the WebUI didn't had a method to assign labels.

>It would drop to 0kbps constantly and it would max out at about 300kBps
That sounds like my experience with Wi-Fi on the Zero, the Zero wifi sucks massive dick so i removed the antenna and just use the Ethernet. No issues at all and the speedtest-cli test seems fine with my bandwidth (60Mbps DL/20Mbps UL).

I'm not sure I understand, what's exactly the point?

hmm, maybe I'll play around with it some more.
I don't need a torrenting box anymore but I would like to get some use out of the thing.
I was getting bad performance over ethernet with wifi unconfigured, so either transmission sucks ass on this hardware or I'm just getting bad network speeds for some reason.

What OS did you use? I'm running the latest version of Armbian and everything runs nicely.

uh I think it was the legacy version of armbian jessie

the point is that you can do malicious things, MITM attack is a common one. Packet sniffing, metasploit, etc etc. Anything malicious that seems reasonable.
Also why orange pi zeros? Won't you still need
>memory, as in sd/micro sd
>power?

To be honest, I should pick one up, even though the community isn't as big as raspberry pi.

>To be honest, I should pick one up, even though the community isn't as big as raspberry pi.
they're cool but yeah don't expect to find straight forward guides for everything you want to do, unlike the pi zero w which everyone is frothing over.
Also you may want to pay $1 to get a heatsink for it.

From my experience with the Orange Pis you can apply all the guides to do stuff for the RasPi by doing the same steps, it runs Debian after all.

Now about the GPIO stuff i'm not sure.

Thats what I thought myself, like if you ran into a problem you can probably find rpi guide or something on it.

I've found a few differences between Rasbian and Armbian just in terms of directories and such.
Not a big deal unless you were hoping to copy+paste your entire setup without thinking about it.
Which a lot of people buying raspberry pis do, so it's worth mentioning.

im basically using mine as a home server to run bots on social media.

right now i'm running a discord bot and a twitter bot. i want to run more bots. what kind of bots should i run? im thinking about doing reddit and facebook too.

honestly i have little interest in social media, but bots are fun and seeing people react to them interests me

twitter bot is pic related

at the very least, install pi-hole on the 3. I think the zero can manage that as well, search around. I was thinking of adding squid to my pi3 besides the pihole.

Did you really have to name it after Sup Forums? That's rather cringe-worthy

Yeah, that's the plan. I wasn't aware of Pi-Hole until I read through this thread.

what else would I name it after?

I have one of the first ones with more ram and it can't even handle cups. The whole thing freezes for 10-20 seconds for every single print job.

Is that using the Sup Forums API to acquire its data?

Honestly it's easy to use and fucking great. I pointed my router to it but also I'm poiting my desktop and laptop to the pi to get stats on them too.
Default lists are more than enough but if you poke around you can load a shitton more of lists if you are paranoid.
If you use any machine with windows it has also a list with all the telemetry shit that updates from time to time.

im actually using a library called BASC py4chan because i wasnt aware Sup Forums had its own official API before i got comfortable with the former

I want to order a pi zero w but as with every new PI it's basically a racket. Cheapest you can get it is from Canakit for $10 and $10 shipping. You could literally throw it in a paper envelope for less than a dollar.

Thanks for the heads up. I have a Windows PC that I use in case some software doesn't work probably on a VM.

I'm thinking about also setting up the PI as an access point that's connected to a VPN service. Do you think there would be any issue if I pointed my router to Pi-Hole?

get an orange pi then

This guy gets it
It even block win10 telemetry

where did you get the chassis

using pi zero w. the wifi is complete shit. Should've just bought a ordinary 3 and got a wifi chip

Thrift store. That is what faggots that replied to me cant understand. I am new to electronics/soldering/arduino, but nope there is only one path, and being elitist faggot.

not hard at all, at the time of install on the pi, just setup the dns servers you normally use with your isp (or whatever you are using now). Make sure the pi gets a reserved static ip address from your router or whatever you have doing DHCP and after you have everything connected and installed just change the DNS server on your router to the actual static ip you gave the pi. If you do that every single thing that connects to that router will pass through the pi and effectively block any crap. As I don't care to setup every single wifi device I have pointing the dns to the pi, I just leave it as is, but on desktop or a laptop I go ahead and tell the computer to strictly go through the pi ip address so you get stats in the web interface. Also you can check what was blocked on those. I can tell you it works with the Windows machine.

Yeah, I'm used to have ublock on every browser I use and have adaway on my phone but it's nice to know that there's an extra layer

I have mine attached to my home heating system.

does it lowers/rises temp based on sensor?

Not OP but anyone tried both? Nginx apparently runs better on pi

No, it serves as the backbone to my air purification system.

This is actually pretty cool

Pi-hole
Open VPN server
Owncloud and network share with automated backups.

Ran BOINC/ Seti on it for a while but it kept shitting itself. 100+ hours for a work unit!

don't let Sup Forums autists get to you bro

Does it work?

Clusters are the best.

Why the fuck do you do that??

You have to be careful with some BOINC applications because some require swap space and will fail if none is available.
Seeing most ROMs don't set up swap (probably to avoid situations of over working the card and killing it quickly) it's worth making a small swap partition just to keep things happy. From what I saw (Einstein@home) barely writes to the swap it makes and Linux in general doesn't use swap until RAM runs out so a small swap shouldn't be too much of an issue having around.

Clearly because he likes cheese pizza.

>proprietary firmware

I am looking to turn mine into a PXE server, so i can easily install windows and linux or run tools for work. Havent even looked at how to do it. Not sure if i can.

make something that takes posts from r/Sup Forums and posts them on twitter

Interesting info user, thanks. I just uninstalled it as I need the VPN to be reliable.
I've got an old thin client that I'll be running as a dedicated BOINC machine. Probably drop seti for Einstein and folding.

Yeah, I am actually working on server/client for it, I am writing the program in Java, and will be writing it for android, too.

Sounds cool.

ice also read many are complaining that you can't use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi at the same time without having issues. very disappoint

I was thinking of just SSHing and just having terminal capture keys when I press, but said fuck it I rather program server/client.

its been shitposting on Sup Forums for about 3 days straight now

its only gotten one warning

>tfw no qt shitposting machine