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Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi
Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi
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Show album art for the current track and total scrobbles from Last.fm on a very cute computer. Uses the Rocket web framework + Tera for templates, all in Rust.
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The processing unit in my espresso machine died and was back ordered for 4 months, so raspberry pi to the rescue!
Is that much processing power necessary? Not even a little, but hey now it hosts its own web UI (local network only).
Firmware (Elixir, nerves): https://github.com/benwilson512/coffee_time/blob/a49814e5d8a...
- Two LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv/) mediaplayers in house (yes, one is not enough in my big family).
- One for hosting low usage applications at home network (Unifi controller and some more).
- Octoprint (https://octoprint.org) connected to the 3d-printer.
- One on my desk for hardware hacking – mostly as just a PC with GPIO.
- Some Raspberry Pi Zeros as security cameras.
- Two LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv/) mediaplayers in house (yes, one is not enough in my big family).
- One for hosting low usage applications at home network (Unifi controller and some more).
- Octoprint (https://octoprint.org) connected to the 3d-printer.
- One on my desk for hardware hacking – mostly as just a PC with GPIO.
- Some Raspberry Pi Zeros as security cameras.
And a bunch more test data: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/21
Reducing logging, logging to ram and writing to the sdcard once a day helps longevity a lot, especially with quality sd cards.
99% of the time it's the verbose logging of application servers that is the culprit of sdcard failures.
https://github.com/azlux/log2ram
You can also buy mainboards[1] and expansion cards[2] (usb-c, hdmi etc.) from the same website. Depending on how beefy of a computer you want there are mainboards from 299 USD to 700 USD. So for ~500 USD you can get a very powerful tiny-ish computer. It obviously won't have the IO capabilities of pi-like hobby boards but it'll function great as a thin client for running linux / home automation stuff.
[1]: https://frame.work/marketplace/mainboards
I see that the PR against the Raspberry Pi linux repo is out [0]. Interestingly they are introducing a BCM2712 defconfig with a 64k default page size.
[0] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/5618
Great! I'm looking forward to getting a few of these. I currently have five Raspberry Pis running in my house, mainly for dashboards:
* Zigbee2MQTT in a closet in the middle of the house
* FullPageOS [1] dashboard on my bedroom TV
* FullPageOS dashboard on our living room TV
* FullPageOS dashboard in my office
* RetroPie running emulators and video screensaver on a CRT TV in my workshop
[1] https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS
I've been using one for https://pikvm.org/ and it's been a rare case of "the Raspberry Pi is neither ridiculously overpowered or ridiculously underpowered or beat out by any off the shelf solution, let alone at the same price point". It's literally the best IP KVM I've ever used or owned. The use case is almost a perfect match for the exact hardware capabilities of the Pi: hardware encoding, video input, gigabit network (with Wi-Fi alternative, which has saved me a few times), GPIO, USB OTG, the hat system, open source web KVM software which doesn't suck ass and sit untouched for 13 years with endless security vulnerabilities piling up.
I’ve got one of mine showing album art for music I’m playing[1], one with an e-ink display that shows which subways are leaving soon near me, one running Homebridge for a variety of sensors[2], one for WireGuard and Pi-Hole, and one to run Klipper/Mainsail for my 3D printer. I guess these are all tinkering as well but they’ve basically been running 24/7 for a few years now!
[1] https://github.com/aaronhktan/rpi-albumart
But oddly enough, they don't support some screen resolutions: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1202#issuecom...
I run my Christmas light show software (https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp) with a Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxaA-ca6S0 :)
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