Pi

can the pi be used practically as a nas?

>>56413811
dat fan on your pi, is this a meme post?

>>56413844
An HDD enclosure, a 1TB 3.5" drive, and a samba server. done. doubles as a torrent server via SSH.

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> raspberry pi have 2,5mm holes
> orange pi have 3mm holes
> I only have 4mm screws for PC mobos
Fuck
Where can I find cheap screws?

>>56413864
hmm, thanks will look into it

>>56413844
no, it only has 1 usb 2 host which is shared with the ethernet port. the performance is a joke, ~300mbit shared between the network connection and the usb hdd

Rpi NAS's are a joke only meant for people who are dirt poor and NEED an NAS.

>>56413889
Oh no, 300MBit. I can only download an 8GB BDrip in half an hour. whatever will I do.

>>56413872
Just drill your holes a little bigger.

>>56413889
Ethernet is 100mb/s FastEthernet anyway

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hooked up to my TV, using it to experiment with and learn C

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>>56413947

>>56413872
home depot, else, ebay

>>56413965
hows that related to anything i said ?

>>56413945
maybe those speeds are considered decent in zimbabwe, but no where in the first world

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>>56413947

>>56413889
>>56413844
Look for the Banana Pi
It have SATA and gigabit ethernet

>>56414050
>botnet chinkshit

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I'm currently using my Apple //e as a dumb terminal to my Pi.

Anybody with a CHIP or PocketCHIP done anything neat with it? I want to have some project ideas for when mine arrives.

>>56414087
That's pretty cool actually.

>>56413872
radioshack too

>>56414121
You should probably sit down for this...

>>56414138
They're still around.
It's a terrible rec, though, still, since they're overprices af, but they could have it on a blue moon.

>>56414138
https://www.radioshack.com/apps/store-locator

still plenty out there, nigs gotta buy prepaid phones somewhere.

if I had one I could replace the compaq nc6400 I have running as a ssh terminal
I'd have to rig up a battery though, having a integrated UPS, keyboard and display is nice on a server

If I have a home network set up and want to remotely access my files, how do I get that set up?

>>56414280
Port forwarding.

>>56414087

Awesome shit

>>56414336
How secure is that? Can I download files remotely?

>>56414374
>How secure is that?
if you use sftp and allow public key authentication only: as secure as you keep your private key. you can add a portknocking daemon to open the port for you too, etc.

>>56414087
This is some quality OC right here.

>>56414516
That picture is like a week old.

>>56414520
Didn't know, either way, it's pretty cool imo.

>>56414520
It is, but it's still mine. I just haven't gotten to taking a new pic of anything interesting yet.

here is my question, how to get one for free? can I win one somehow
>tfw not a normie so I don't have just heaps of friends to network and find somebody that doesn't use theirs anymore

got a pi2 to use as a cheapo proxy for when i'm out.

works well for that and some cli applications.

can't really ask for more.

install FreeBSD and use it as a simple web server

http://devio.us/~spacemonkey/raspberry_pi_freebsd_web_server_howto.html

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I have a Raspi 3 with RTLSDR + dump1090 + Stratux to receive ADS-B/Mode S from aircraft. I'm still working on forwarding the dump1090 data to software that will display tracks on a map like an air traffic control terminal.

>>56415416
You can upload that data to flightradar right?

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I was using a Pi for a network music player, it got too slow so now I am building one from a much older system and it's at least 10 times faster if not more.

In all fairness, the only thing the Pi is really go for is being a low power computer for shit that a regular computer from 2001 can do faster but with more power being used.

>>56415449
I haven't gotten that far yet due to being slammed at work for the past few months, but I was reading something about you getting a free membership if you're feeding tracks to them.

>>56415466
I was in the same boat. I had an MPD server and was trying to use the Pi to play music through some speakers using an MPD playlist on the pi pointing to the HTTP stream on the server.

It was having some trouble with choppy audio. While my phone or laptop would work fine streaming it, the pi didn't do it too well. I wouldn't recommend using the pi for any sort of audio purposes. Anyone have any recommendations for alternatives to use with speakers?

>>56414669
Have a specific project in mind, see what the cost of that project would be, get a job, and buy the components.

>>56415577
I am using an old Athlon 64 CPU and Mobo, 2GB ram, and running Kodibuntu. Works like Butter. To run the newest version of Kodi, you NEED a 64bit system because the devs didn't like maintaining a 32bit version

>>56413848
RasPi model 3 B thermal throttles under max load.

I know nothing about Linux and setting up a pi.

What is something I should do to approach having a pi torrent server?

>>56413876
Will have shit performance. All disk access forced through USB 2.0

is a raspberry pi powerful enough to be used as a plex server (not the client)?
I have a NAS which I'm currently using but it's not powerful enough for any transcoding, even just audio.
Would it be feasible to connect a Pi to my network and use it to handle the server while my NAS houses the files?

>>56418214
no, and more importatnly it doesnt have enough bus speedto transfer teh necesary data and compute and spit to network

I used to have it running as a DNS to block ads.
It worked well, but some sites get mad when you block them, so its just easier to block them locally.

Now its being used as a paperweight.

>>56413811
i'm using two of it to mesh network with my friends

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Here mine
e B+ with 6000mAh battery
and HDD 2"5 full musique <3

>>56418706
why is it attached to a battery

>>56418438
Not that anon, but how about Emby?
It has a feature where the clients contact the source locations directly and don't stream through the server.
So it would act more as a distrubition point of the media library

Plan on making a raspberry pi Gameboy with the zero I bought for a buck. Just got the OS on there so now I need to order all the parts and slap em together. Gonna make it a nice emulator for the old games I use to play as a kid

>>56419355

Use pi 3 if you want n64 or psx or even dreamcast

>>56419399
Is it fast enough to emulate those3

>>56419399
I was gonna do just the Gameboy, nes, snes Gameboy color, and other pocket games. I'll definitely remember that I need a pi3 for n64. Thanks

>>56413844
>>56413889
It's slow but it works. It's good because it's cheap af.

>>56414669
?
It's 35$ without the cables m8.

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>>56413811
>Use a pi as a torrent machine at uni
>Torrent over 2tb worth of shit over a month
>Get an email from board telling me to stop
>I dont stop
>Torrent another tb
>server is offline
>Walk to dorm to see Wtf is going on
>Police and security in the hallway
>Am fugged

So what do I do now? Im currently at my friends place. Since I live in Tallinn it's impossible for me to get charged by police for piracy but the uni might kick me out

>>56413972
what are you learning exactly?

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>>56419822
Thats 70% of my monthly allowance, fampai :^)

>>56419742
i don't think zero can be enough for snes. pi2 is barely ok with fceux (with some tweak on the code)
Maybe you can write an emulator i don't know and make it efficient with zero though. It's worth testing

>>56414087
I'm really jealous.

>>56413864
It will lag like shit, and the pi might not be able to support the power intake of the 3.5". I can't even torrent past 300kbps and that's only when I'm lucky

I can't watch youtube with my pi 2. Epiphany just has this weird player that looks like it's working (quality and sound ok, not too much resources) but for some reason there's an yt icon in the middle of the video and i can't pause/go forward in the video. It's sad because it really looks like it's working fine.
Using another browser like iceweasel is just out of the question, too much RAM and CPU usage the pi will fry under an hour.

>>56419849
Either encrypt or kill the drives. Change your MAC addresses. Claim you don't know what's going on.

Don't get kicked out for piracy, you'll never work again.

Also, set upload and download limits on your torrent client.

>>56419849
It's only on your Pi, right?
Just don't bring it in, say someone must have hacked your account. (if it is account based, I assume so)

Disconnect it, change MAC, change User-Agent of any browsers and anything else you might have on it to ID it upon reconnect.
Wait a while.
Use some limits next time.
Continue.

>>56420125
nigga, you need a powered enclosure. what the fuck are you doing.

Anyone have any luck getting PfSense to work on their Pi?

I have an original Model B and have no idea what to do with it

I want a media center for my TV to replace my FireTV which doesn't support x265, but the RPi doesn't support it either. Is one of the Orange Pi's a good choice? If so, which one?

And what would be a good remote to pair with it?

I have a 3 and a 0, I dunno what to do with them tho, all the mainstream sites have only faggy stuff

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I've squeezed mine in a rotary phone, hooked the handset to speaker and mic.

Made a few scripts, that let you talk into the handset, use Google botnet cloud TextToSpeech, send text to cleverbot, then speech synthesis on the cleverbot output.

Result is a normal (if slightly slow) chat with a batshit crazy AI

I call it the ForeverAlonePhone

>>56422966
That's awesome

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>>56422966

Finished, with HDMI and Wireless keyboard for when I need to update/test it

I've also made a voice Wikipedia search script

Next I'm planning to hook up the rotary dialler as an input for interacting/choosing script to run.

>>56422978
Thanks anon

>>56422668
Think up a stupid crazy idea for a project, then star kludging until it works! A project one anon suggested here a while back which could be fun - use a motion sensor, get Pi to play sienfeld bassline when someone walks in the room

>>56413876
I use an externally powered USB hub and have 3 1tb HDDs plugged in. Read/write speed is not super fast, but it's fine. Also have sabnzbd set up on it, and Plex. Werks fer me.

>>56422997
That's cool as hell, Anon. You should do a full write-up on how to make one. I'd love to try that out.

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Turned one of these things I had lying around into a RetroPie machine.

Has anyone experimented with turning a Pi Zero into an offline cold storage for cryptocurrency?

>>56423288

No worries, I'll finish my write up at some point, and post my shitty ugly mess of code to git hub at some point, will post links in the pi generals when it's done

>>56419849
> torrenting terabytes of pirated content on a university network without paying $5/mo for a VPN

The fuck is wrong with you?

Okay, I have a question for all of you pitards - is it possible to run Skype on RPI?
I've been hesitating on buying one of those because every time I ask myself what would I need it for I failed to find a proper reason. Using it for skype would be a good one for me, but I've heard it's impossible so I got discouraged.
Has anything changed? Or maybe it was possible after all and just some dick mislead me?

>>56418729
it was just for a test about battery life
6000mAh with a hdd , Ethernet and mpd working = 7 hours working

>>56413872
Any hardware store (when I say hardware store I mean construction stuff like home depot, or any supermarket with that kind of section in it).
I have a mom and pop's hardware store nearby where I buy gardening shit and they always have the screws I need for radiators and so on, quite comfy also cheap.

>>56423928
Cool, I'll keep an eye out for it.

>>56419868
C

>>56414097
Mine was meant to ship by June, got pushed back to September or October, just waiting for it to get pushed back again.

>>56419767
>It's good because it's cheap af.
you can get a fucking core2quad with gbit ethernet for the same price

>>56421336
>>56420358
how the fuck can you change a mac address ?

>>56419399
does the pi3 do a decent job with n64 and psx emulation ? i'd imagine it would still be too weak

How fast is raspberry pi on torrents? i mean max speed

>>56425998
< 100 mbit
not worth it

>>56426018

With the low cost of powering a pi, and reduction in noise, it can be worth it.

I load up a list of movie/anime torrents, sleep, and they're all done by morning. With only a few cents of power used, and not the noise that goes with a full desktop.

It's definitely not the fastest, but if your in no urgent need of the data, I'd say it can be worth it for cost and convenience.

Depends what you consider more important.

>>56426536
there would be still better options, like eeeboxes. i recently got one for free because it had a broken gpu. gbit ethernet, dual core atom, sata, and doesn't take much power either.

>>56426536
Find your last energy bill, check how much a 1 kWh costs and assuming a generous scenario in which you switch completely from your PC to a RPI, calculate how many years would it take for it to return.

also, bumping for >>56425045

>>56426765
The point is, you don't need gigabit ethernet unless you're running on half a dozen private trackers with no data cap.
There are of course better solutions, but 100mbit is more than enough, and adding in ease of use as unix boxes go, it's a good solution.

>>56414087
please make a tutorial

>>56425045
>is it possible to run Skype on RPI?
now try typing exactly the same thing into google

but thats no reason to buy a rpi.

>>56425045
there's a binary webapp package for linux now, so if it can run that it can work.
I don't know how you would want to work it with screens and audio, so that would be something to consider.
I would just buy a small laptop and put it next to my desktop or something, to keep it simple since it would already have everything.

>>56426901
>no reason to buy a rpi.
It is, if your (my wild guess) south bridge is fucked and there is no way to make your mic to work. Tried with internal mic, external mics, with two external usb soundcards, on windows 7, bunch of different linux distros etc.
The crazy thing is, the mic actually works from time to time, but it's unpredictable and I have no control over it. Also found nothing on google on it.

>now try typing exactly the same thing into google
Tried googling it about a year ago, but results were unsatisfactory. Honestly, haven't tried this time though. I hoped to hear from someone who actually tried it.

>>56426916
>I would just buy a small laptop and put it next to my desktop or something, to keep it simple since it would already have everything.
Yeah, but I also kinda looked for a reason to play with Pi.

>>56426851

I've done the math - running my desktop for 24 hours costs the same as running my Pi for 16 MONTHS. Even with the better ether net speeds of the PC, the Pi is still 100x as efficient (I'm only on DSL in the boondocks though, that ratio would massively shift if they ever roll out cable/fibre to my neck of the woods)

>>56426765
Would be good, if I had an eeebox, or could get one as cheap as a pi, but the running costs are still an order of magnitude larger. But it is noiseless, so beats a desktop in that regard.

>>56426916

>binary webapp
Compiled for ARM? Not Googled, but would be surprised if it is.

>>56427159
they serve a tarball, but who knows past that. I don't wanna checl

>>56413844
you can, but there are much better alternatives for the money.
>orange pi
cheaper
>banana pi
cheaper
>odroid c2
same price

all of those have actual 1gbps ethernet and not some shitty 100mbps bus shared with all the usb ports.

>>56427133
Your PC consumes 500W all the time?

>>56427281
Raspi is fucking 5W
It literally cost 1,42€/year of electricity in my country

>>56427392
Wrong math, it's 7,11€
Still cheap

>>56422966
I actually want to try that

>>56427281

More than that if I forget to close firefox

>>56427560
>tfw your laptop consumes 40W tops.

>>56427560
kek

>>56423028
>Motion sensor to play sienfeld bassline when someone walks in the room

How do I make this happen? Should I use the Pi 3 or the Pi 0? Can someone recommend a speaker and motion sensor? anything else that I need?

>>56426877
Enable terminal via serial in raspi-config (Possibly not necessary?)

Open terminal

"sudo systemctl start serial- [email protected]"

On the Apple //e, start MODEM.MGR. I believe the .DSK file is on Asimov. Just use ADTPro to transfer. Set baud rate to 9600, parity to 8+1+none and then press ":" and then "V".

You now have your Apple //e as a dumb terminal to your Raspberry Pi! (I believe this would also work on other varieties of the Apple ][.)

Anybody here used the pi-top (or anything else to turn their Pi into a laptop? Seems very enticing to me.

>>56425702
Thank you anon.

But how ? with what ?

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>>56413811
Anyone have any luck transmitting video like dvb-t /s with one? I feel like it could be better than current 2.4ghz fpv systems. Heard about it here http://www.rtl-sdr.com/transmitting-datv-with-a-raspberry-pi/ http://www.rtl-sdr.com/transmitting-dvbt-hdtv-raspberry-pi-rtl2832u/

>>56413811
CHIP from Next Thing Co. is WAY better. built in wifi, storage, bluetooth, and mainline linux, all for 9 dollars?! I bought 3 of these and they're the best things I;ve ever owned

>>56413947
fuck lost
>>56415416
When you end, please post on /g/ the results, seems awesome

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>tfw CompSci pleb
>know fuck all about electrical engineering
>just wanna make cool IoT shit and restore old electronics

>>56420241
Don't directly watch it in a browser. Use youtube-dl to download videos and omxplayer to play them.

>>56430169
You can also do it in Kodi

>>56429722
Super pumped for my PocketCHIP to arrive in October.

I have a pi zero and a pi 2

Can somebody suggest me a project? I made a quick little home file server but I had no idea what to do with it since I already have a dropbox account, and that I don't have to maintain myself.

I tried making it into a little emulation battlestation but it felt sort of pointless when I could just fire it up on my computer.

>>56430561
How about a simple G-code plotter? Pull some steppers from an old CD drive and see where that gets you.

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>>56414087
Thank You, Sir. That's as Nerd as it gets!

>>56430561
Make a spying kit you can drop and pick up later. Strap it to a 10000mah Powerbank, add a mic and/or camera. Either use a public wifi/3g dongle to monitor remotely or just let it record everything to SD.

>>56430561
I have a similar idea to >>56430751, but I think it would be a little more practical:
How about a custom car camera recorder? If you are willing to spend some extra money, you could even add a GPS module and a 3G module to give it an additional anti theft feature.

>>56430561
Do something special with the emulation battlestation.

turn the pi 2 into a file server, link it directly to dropbox (anything on the server goes to dropbox and vice versa) and use the pi zero as a thin client to access the server?

>>56430907
To add to "do something special", definitely add custom controls. Either by creating a bartop arcade cabinet, PiGRRL, etc.

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>>56430995
most definatly. Put the Pi in a broken console's case...etc

>>56428157
With the rasperry pi

*tips*

Pi's are pointless just get a Mac Mini and use that

>>56432461
i no right?

>>56431038
>NVIDIA VHS580
missed opportunities right here

what's the cheapest card like these with wifi? I'd like to connect them to a bunch of random shit in my house