Your Raspberry Pi Projects

[ArmatageShanks]

I use my Raspberry Pi with Emonpi to monitor my Solar offgrid system. It monitors in real time, solar harvest, peak generation, battery charge and discharge level and creates a daily chart. It also sends the output to a cloud vps every 10 sec allowing the information to be seen from this dashboard http://energy.bobby.com.ng/dashboard/view?id=1

I also use it as an wireless internet router, I have a usb LTE modem connected to the Pi, the internet from the modem is shared wirelessly to devices around the house. The Pi also has openhab installed and I intend to use that to be the heat beat of the home automation system using sonof wireless relays.

Other Single board computer projects are:

Helios4 Nas server with 4 3TB drives running in RAID 6, The host all media content, VMs and docker images. I have NFS, SMB running on them

Odroid N2: Media Box, running Kodi and other services like Nagios to monitor the health of device hardware and services running in the house including the health of the disks running on the Media server. , a small webserver with educational content for my kids and other things that might come to mind.

Absolutely love that dashboard. Well done.

 

[blaaislaai]

Recently installed Pi-Hole, to block ads on DNS-level. Quite useful, no longer need browser adblockers and ads are even blocked on some mobile games

 

[Soprono]

Recently installed Pi-Hole, to block ads on DNS-level. Quite useful, no longer need browser adblockers and ads are even blocked on some mobile games
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Check the Reddit thread for the PiHole. There are some awesome block lists out there that cover even more stuff.

The more reliable lists have exclusions for some false positives too that if not whitelisted could hinder legit services. Since going YouTube premium I haven’t put much time into my PiHole but it’s always a trusted device specially for my mobile browsing and the GFs iPad games like you mentioned.

 

[Vis1/0N]

Raspberry Pi 4 Announced!
1 ,2, 4GB Ram ($35, $45, $55)
USB 3
4K HEVC
Dual Monitor
etc

Gonna check arrow.com because we will get fleeced here. Only consideration (like last time) was damn ICASA delays.

 

[Quey_Quick]

Raspberry Pi 4 Announced!
1 ,2, 4GB Ram ($35, $45, $55)
USB 3
4K HEVC
Dual Monitor
etc

Gonna check arrow.com because we will get fleeced here. Only consideration (like last time) was damn ICASA delays.

this looks good.

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/23/raspberry-pi-4-just-released-faster-cpu-more-memory-dual-hdmi-ports/

 

[aktiv]

video

 

[PhireSide]

Pity about the move to Micro-HDMI ports as I don't trust them as far as reliability and ruggedness is concerned.

But given the form factor, they probably had to lose the full-size HDMI port to make two ports fit. DisplayPort would be a nice-to-have, but there are probably chipset incompatibilities or royalties when it comes to that and they also chose to keep the original price of $35 which is pretty astounding.

 

[rrh]

The Reg;s review

 

[Soul Assassin]

Full gigabit LAN and 4K HEVC <3

 

[Willie Trombone]

Epic

 

[Vis1/0N]

USB 3, could hang a USB SSD off that for a low power device, I think the Pi 3 onwards can boot from USB.

 

[K3NS31]

Pity about the move to Micro-HDMI ports as I don't trust them as far as reliability and ruggedness is concerned.

snip...

According to a reply to this exact query in the comments to the release article on the Raspberry Pi website, they did a lot of testing of these micro-hdmi ports to ensure ruggedness. Apparently they also have extra strong fastenings or whatever it's called. (Sorry I can't link to the comment - there are over 300 and I read it 2 days ago)

 

[K3NS31]

USB 3, could hang a USB SSD off that for a low power device, I think the Pi 3 onwards can boot from USB.

Also in comments of that release article - confirmed boot from USB will be possible but waiting for software / firmware update. (Apparently they now have an EFI type BIOS? That'll be useful)

 

[K3NS31]

Anybody remember the name of the Pishop.co.za guy? He's posted in this thread before. Anyway, if you see this - any estimate on how long it'll take ICASA to certify the Pi 4? The all-in-one wifi/bt module should already be certified from the 3B+, right? Shouldn't need to be redone. That's why they made it modular.

 

[K3NS31]

Raspberry Pi 4 Announced!
1 ,2, 4GB Ram ($35, $45, $55)
USB 3
4K HEVC
Dual Monitor
etc

Gonna check arrow.com because we will get fleeced here. Only consideration (like last time) was damn ICASA delays.

I don't see it on arrow.com yet. Maybe I'm not looking properly?
Anyway, pishop's prices seem reasonable. Under 600 for the 1GB and 900 odd for the 4GB. (Preview pricing I guess)

 

[AdrianH]

Anybody remember the name of the Pishop.co.za guy? He's posted in this thread before. Anyway, if you see this - any estimate on how long it'll take ICASA to certify the Pi 4? The all-in-one wifi/bt module should already be certified from the 3B+, right? Shouldn't need to be redone. That's why they made it modular.

I spoke to somebody named Henry once!

 

[K3NS31]

I spoke to somebody named Henry once!

lol, he has an actual account on the forum. Just can't remember the name. Maybe it's just pishop. HEY, that works. @PiShop see above please? My query regarding eta for ICASA certification for Pi 4.

 

[Vis1/0N]

I don't see it on arrow.com yet. Maybe I'm not looking properly?
Anyway, pishop's prices seem reasonable. Under 600 for the 1GB and 900 odd for the 4GB. (Preview pricing I guess)

Yeah, not on arrow.com as yet. May take a few days or weeks or more. I used them a couple of years back for the Pi3 that was on special at $25 and they had free shipping, and customs and clearance via Fedex/DHL. Was an amazing deal, I could have bought a few more. They made an error with invoicing (people who paid via paypal iirc) and as an apology for sending out demand for payment they sent out the PiW completely free to those affected.

I have had a few more orders with them including an oscilloscope last year (customs clearances costs are now payable by recipient) and just recently they put in a minimum of $50 for free shipping.

So yeah, pishop looks pretty good.

 

[AdrianH]

So yeah, pishop looks pretty good.

I like them

I have ordered from them five times already, no issues. Busy building up my 6th order now.

 

[spiff]

got some electronic stuff to get rid of.

anyone in CT interested?

maybe swap for an older PI?