For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?

  • dbilitated@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    use it for home assistant. I’m astonished because my test install from years ago on a pi that’s around 7 years old is going with no intervention aside from updates. it’s crazy robust.

    for a while my laptop was slow and I needed a test local environment rebuilding with webpack so I set up a newer pi that ran the Dev servers so my laptop didn’t choke. I’ve got a better laptop now.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Home Assistant is pretty stable. The only reason you’ll run into that it’ll break is if the storage media breaks, which happens semi often with SD cards.

      • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I got around this by only booting from the SD card, the root fs lives on a $15 256GB mSATA SSD from fleaBay in a $5 USB enclosure.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Hell yeah; this is the way.

          You can actually boot directly off the SSD iirc, by patching the Pi. Though I don’t recall how as it’s been a few years since I looked into it.

          • evidences@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yeah there was a bootloader update a few years ago, it might be only for 3 and newer, but it enables booting from USB and the network.