Your Raspberry Pi Projects

I am busy taking a backup of my Pi and compressing it onto my external drive...it gets pretty hot doing that :p

Pardon the messy terminal window...I am still new to Linux so my commands are rusty and I figure them out as I go along. The bottom terminal window is running htop, which is an enhanced version of top used to keep an eye on CPU load, memory usage by the various processes and other bits and bobs. It is quite customizable and you can choose from a list of values to report

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I want to monitor various temperatures around my house, in order to improve on insulation, ventilation,etc - all together 16 sensors right now.

Can any recommend a logging platform, or website to use with this amount of sensors, where data can be analyzed fairly easy after a few weeks? Currently playing with emoncms.org and thingspeak, but neither of them work very well for this kind of project.

tia ;)
 
Got a RPie 3 B today...won't have time to work on it for the next month or two though :(
 
HavocXphere said:
Got a RPie 3 B today...won't have time to work on it for the next month or two though :(
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Lekker! What are your plans with it initially?

I discovered a nifty site which will in plain text explain how your cronjobs will end up running as :)

@ Softdux-Rudi, have a look here.
 
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Lekker! What are your plans with it initially?

I discovered a nifty site which will in plain text explain how your cronjobs will end up running as :)

@ Softdux-Rudi, have a look here.
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Thinking of setting up a server to store photos and uhm linux distros. Fam back home can't deal with the whole NZB story so just going to download them this side & throw it onto a (FTP? Torrent?) server. Very inefficient @ triple d/l but meh uncapped fibre so whatever.
 
HavocXphere said:
Thinking of setting up a server to store photos and uhm linux distros. Fam back home can't deal with the whole NZB story so just going to download them this side & throw it onto a (FTP? Torrent?) server. Very inefficient @ triple d/l but meh uncapped fibre so whatever.
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How fast is the fibre?

Your location says you're in Europe?
 
Why not setup a Deluge server to handle your uhm distros?

With the right port forwarding you could log on to it from anywhere in the world and add torrents in for it to download. You can even set it to move completed distros to various folders when they are done, and they have addons to schedule it too.

My RPi is doing a lot more than I intended to at first:

1) No-IP updater client to give myself a hostname to access my home network remotely.
2) Kodi front-end as it is hooked up to the TV for streaming purposes.
3) OpenVPN server secured with crypto keys which I can connect to if I happen to be on the free McD's Wifi every now and then. This also allows me access to my router and local machines without running the risk of opening too many ports on my router.
4) Deluge server for distros as mentioned above. I send my downloads to an external drive and use fstab combined with crontab to attempt to mount my drive every 5 minutes if I ever have to unplug it and plug it back in. This way I don't have to pause my torrents or manually mount the drive again.
5) Work in progress, but I would love to turn it into a backup server one day
 
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How fast is the fibre?

Your location says you're in Europe?
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Well the infrastructure is capable of gigabit...but currently on 50mbps I think.

Was on 100 for a while, but its a decent chunk more expensive & has near zero extra benefit so downgraded. Fast enough & stopped worrying about the details tbh.
 
wabbit16 said:
Why not setup a Deluge server to handle your uhm distros?
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Must admit I haven't given it much thought yet. Bought the Rpie on special one night while a tiny bit drunk.

Nice list.

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1) No-IP updater client to give myself a hostname to access my home network remotely.
2) Kodi front-end as it is hooked up to the TV for streaming purposes.
3) OpenVPN server secured with crypto keys which I can connect to if I happen to be on the free McD's Wifi every now and then. This also allows me access to my router and local machines without running the risk of opening too many ports on my router.
4) Deluge server for distros as mentioned above. I send my downloads to an external drive and use fstab combined with crontab to attempt to mount my drive every 5 minutes if I ever have to unplug it and plug it back in. This way I don't have to pause my torrents or manually mount the drive again.
5) Work in progress, but I would love to turn it into a backup server one day
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Will probably copy those. UK cellphone internet filters in particular are p!ssing me off so might bounce that off the fibre link.

Backup...maybe as a secondary one...but I'm accumulating photos at quite a fierce rate so thinking of getting an actual backup solution for that...like backblaze or something. Maybe family plan & throw sis & parents on there as well (that part is dicey @SA ADSL though).

Also want to host a private "my links" page...link a global homepage type thing.
 
I suppose you could host a small http webpage off the Pi, I can't see why it would not work. WAMP should be perfect for your situation.

I used no-ip as they have a free hostname provided you confirm it via e-mail every 30 days. The ones supported by my router are all paid-for versions (dyndns etc.) so the Pi has taken over this duty. The OpenVPN I got set up in half an hour while waiting in my car for a client a few months ago. I was VNC'ed to my Pi at the time :p it's quite easy to set up but does take a while to generate the keys.

As for the backups, it sounds like a cloud-based solution is the safest bet for you IMHO.

Some links:

http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/install-ip-duc-onto-raspberry-pi/
http://www.howtogeek.com/142044/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-an-always-on-bittorrent-box/
http://www.pivpn.io/
 
Interesting. Was expecting the VPN to be a pain to set up.

Will see how it goes. Next month or 2 I'm buried in work 24/7 though (gotta fund this circus somehow).
 
To get the basics up and running won't take long. It's the fiddling and optimising that eats up the hours.

Also, the more you add on the more complex it becomes and you might find that one service or proggy is interfering with another which in turn causes another to misbehave.

All part of the learning curve and it's what makes *nix so much fun. There are many ways around obstacles and challenges and a wealth of information out there on the support forums and pages
 
How is the OpenVPN performance on a Raspberry Pi 3? I might get a Pi 3 for a VPN.
 
It depends more on your setup as a whole when it comes to performance. The Pi is perfectly adequate for VPN, but in my case the limiting factor is my internet breakout and the fact that the Pi isn't hardwired into a LAN point but running off my local WiFi.

That said, I have no gripe with the performance when connecting from a public WiFi hotspot and can't say I've noticed much of a difference in speeds
 
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Also, the more you add on the more complex it becomes and you might find that one service or proggy is interfering with another which in turn causes another to misbehave.
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Sounds like you need to start using Docker containers.
 
Currently have OpenElec on my pie, works like a charm. Then I stumbled on Mobdro... and android app that let you stream free channels.

Mobdro works like a dream on my tablet.

Any idea how I can install android on my pie so that I can install Mobdro? I did google, and it seems like the android builds for pie are not working very good... any suggestions?
 
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Currently have OpenElec on my pie, works like a charm. Then I stumbled on Mobdro... and android app that let you stream free channels.

Mobdro works like a dream on my tablet.

Any idea how I can install android on my pie so that I can install Mobdro? I did google, and it seems like the android builds for pie are not working very good... any suggestions?
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Buy an android box. Android on a pi is still a long way from happening.
 
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