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What should I use my RPi4 for? (biglemmowski.win)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a unused RPi4 (the 8Gig one) running DietPi. I did use it as a playground but ever since I am renting a Hetzner machine for (playground) stuff that I want web accessible, I don't have particular use for the Pi.

I am currently running (outdated) Home Assistant on it but there isn't much I can connect it with (yet, getting the flashable/compatible ikea smart lightning zigbee? bridge thingy is on my bucket list). Obviously I do have a pihole there.

Shoot me any other ideas I could run there. Some kind of monitoring of my rented infra would be cool (I already have uptime kuma on the dedi hetzner box). One idea I had was if there are some OSS security scanning "daemons" I could use on to monitor my other infra.

Thanks a lot!

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[+] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Uhh, this seems like a completely new rabbit hole to dive in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This! Im planning on getting this set up on a spare pi one of these days™. You get a free premium acc on the tracking sites, so you can track where tf all those planes and helicopters above your house are going

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I used RTL-SDR dongle and it basically just worked! Also got some recordings of the nearby airport, really cool !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To report back, my system is up and running. Used my spare odroid xu4 with dietpi for it. Put it all in a case and attached a cheap Nooelec stick. Waiting for my antenna today and to decide where to put it under the roof.

Fine tuning for best reception location will be taking a while to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I did this for a hot second (already have RTL-SDR set here) but the current location of the RPi is just bad for reception and moving it closer to some window would mean connecting through wifi (can't lay ethernet cables, renting) and that's bad for other services where low response times are preffered/needed (pihole) :(