Your Raspberry Pi Projects

PhireSide said:
Oh yes, didn't think about that. Facepalm

EDIT: Setup Grafana last night to pull in some local Rpi stats. I only installed it yesterday afternoon so I'm still figuring it out, but I'd like to try and pull network traffic stats using SNMP when I have the time again.

EDIT EDIT: I think the most elegant solution for me would to just get rid of the Gizzu and replace it with one of those Ratel 860P's when they are back in stock. They have double the capacity vs what I have right now (16.6Ah vs 8.8Ah) and they have dedicated USB ports on the actual unit, so I can drive 5VDC/9VDC/12VDC, 5V USB and 24V PoE from one elegant unit.

I guess the SO is getting the power bank after all :)
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Did you ever try the Ratel 860P with the pi 4?
 
bar1 said:
Did you ever try the Ratel 860P with the pi 4?
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I have a Pi 3B+ but nope, ended up selling the Gizzu and bought an inverter that powers my whole study instead of a smaller UPS with only select things powered.
 
So i decided to finally set up my home automation server, on the pi 4, using home assistant.
I managed to set up almost all of my devices, except my aqara light bulbs (connected to aqara hub).

on the HA forums people have successfully added it using: zigbee-mqtt , but they dont really explain how.

never played with mqtt so i now will be a good time to get started.....

did anyone try to do that or have any idea how?
i installed mosquito mqtt but thats as far as i got....also , and this might be a very stupid question....
do i need a zigbee adapter (CC2531 USB stick)?
 
Anthro said:
Try sort out DNS over TLS / HTTPS out while you are at it.
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Like so:

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What type of SSD do you suggest buying for the Pi 4b?

Anyone here manage to boot using the SSD?
 
bar1 said:
So i decided to finally set up my home automation server, on the pi 4, using home assistant.
I managed to set up almost all of my devices, except my aqara light bulbs (connected to aqara hub).

on the HA forums people have successfully added it using: zigbee-mqtt , but they dont really explain how.

never played with mqtt so i now will be a good time to get started.....

did anyone try to do that or have any idea how?
i installed mosquito mqtt but thats as far as i got....also , and this might be a very stupid question....
do i need a zigbee adapter (CC2531 USB stick)?
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I have recently set up z2mqtt.
You need a CC2531 stick and an Arduino or esp8266 to flash it.
Works like a charm but range is quite limited if your house is large.
Lmk if you want more info.
 
Concentric said:
I have recently set up z2mqtt.
You need a CC2531 stick and an Arduino or esp8266 to flash it.
Works like a charm but range is quite limited if your house is large.
Lmk if you want more info.
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Where did you get the adaptor from?
For now, I decided to get other, more compatible lights
 
F1 Fan said:
What type of SSD do you suggest buying for the Pi 4b?

Anyone here manage to boot using the SSD?
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You could give this a go:

I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD

September 2020 Update: USB boot is out of beta! Check out this video for simplified instructions. All you need to do now is run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y, then reboot, then your firmware should be up to date. Now, flash any USB drive with the latest Raspberry Pi OS, plug it into your Pi...
www.jeffgeerling.com

IIRC booting from SSD is in beta for the pi 4. Pretty sure any SSD would do, but Im a fan of Samsung SSD's.
 
Been following this thread for quite a while. Here is the current status of my projects, it does change every now and then:

Pi Zero W - Portable motioneye OS, on a battery bank. Kids strap it to their remote control cars every now and then
Pi Zero W with PiTFT 2.8" touch screen - nothing at the moment - has been a media player in the past
Pi Zero W - nothing at the moment
Pi Model B - nothing at the moment
Pi 2 - CCTV with motioneyeos
Pi 2 - CCTV with motioneyeos
Pi 3B - 7" touch screen and case running Raspbian
Pi 3B - Booting from external 500GB HDD and running Home Assistant. Learning how to use HA, so far integrated the 2 CCTV camera feeds. Next up to get the Sonoffs integrated
Pi 3B - Qbittorrent server on Raspbian, with 2 external HDD's for storage
Pi 3B+ - Picade hat and console
Pi 4B 4GB - Libreelec/Kodi with Netflix and F1 TV
Pi 4B 8GB - Playing around with a desktop and 10" touch screen
 
Stuey74 said:
Been following this thread for quite a while. Here is the current status of my projects, it does change every now and then:

Pi Zero W - Portable motioneye OS, on a battery bank. Kids strap it to their remote control cars every now and then
Pi Zero W with PiTFT 2.8" touch screen - nothing at the moment - has been a media player in the past
Pi Zero W - nothing at the moment
Pi Model B - nothing at the moment
Pi 2 - CCTV with motioneyeos
Pi 2 - CCTV with motioneyeos
Pi 3B - 7" touch screen and case running Raspbian
Pi 3B - Booting from external 500GB HDD and running Home Assistant. Learning how to use HA, so far integrated the 2 CCTV camera feeds. Next up to get the Sonoffs integrated
Pi 3B - Qbittorrent server on Raspbian, with 2 external HDD's for storage
Pi 3B+ - Picade hat and console
Pi 4B 4GB - Libreelec/Kodi with Netflix and F1 TV
Pi 4B 8GB - Playing around with a desktop and 10" touch screen
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Wow, and here i am with only a Pi Zero W running pihole
 
Stuey74 said:
Been following this thread for quite a while. Here is the current status of my projects, it does change every now and then:

Pi Zero W - Portable motioneye OS, on a battery bank. Kids strap it to their remote control cars every now and then
Pi Zero W with PiTFT 2.8" touch screen - nothing at the moment - has been a media player in the past
Pi Zero W - nothing at the moment
Pi Model B - nothing at the moment
Pi 2 - CCTV with motioneyeos
Pi 2 - CCTV with motioneyeos
Pi 3B - 7" touch screen and case running Raspbian
Pi 3B - Booting from external 500GB HDD and running Home Assistant. Learning how to use HA, so far integrated the 2 CCTV camera feeds. Next up to get the Sonoffs integrated
Pi 3B - Qbittorrent server on Raspbian, with 2 external HDD's for storage
Pi 3B+ - Picade hat and console
Pi 4B 4GB - Libreelec/Kodi with Netflix and F1 TV
Pi 4B 8GB - Playing around with a desktop and 10" touch screen
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What cameras are you using for the CCTV? Does it record? Motion detection?
 
Stuey74 said:
Using the Pi IR camera and 3 old usb webcams. Using motioneyeos so doing all the motion detection etc. and recording to external storage.
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Mental note - need to check out Motioneyeos
 
I recently discovered DockSTARTer.
Running RaspiOS lite using DockSTARTer (ran through some easy config). I have a 1tb drive attached for some light Plex testing, pihole, grocy, qbittorrent as a seedbox and a few other containers. It's actually pretty awesome. I've added Home Automation in there as well but haven't gotten around to doing the config yet
 
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