What are some good things to try with my Raspberry Pi 4?

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  • batocera.linux

    batocera.linux

  • slimserver

    Server for Squeezebox and compatible players. This server is also called Lyrion Music Server.

  • I ripped all my audio CDs, back when I still bought CDs, to flac format and serve them up via: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver or mpd or both.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Pi-hole

    A black hole for Internet advertisements

  • docker-install

    Docker installation script

  • #Flash the SD card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite directly or using the Raspberry Pi Imager #https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ #Add two files to the "Boot" partition #One empty file named "ssh" #One file called "wpa_supplicant.conf", edit it as required ##Start of wpa_supplicant.conf## country=US ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ scan_ssid=1 ssid="WIFI_SSID" psk="WIFI_PASSWORD" } ##END## #Boot the Pi #Find the Pi IP using something like Zenmap, or login locally and run "ip a" or "ifconfig" #https://nmap.org/zenmap/ #If on Windows, run "ssh pi@PI_IP" and login using "raspberry" password #Create a new user, replace USERNAME sudo adduser USERNAME #Create a group for docker sudo addgroup docker #Add the new user to sudo and docker group sudo usermod -aG sudo USERNAME && sudo usermod -aG docker USERNAME #Logout and log back in as USERNAME #On Windows run "ssh USERNAME@PI_IP" #Delete the pi user sudo deluser pi #Update the pi sudo apt update sudo apt -y full-upgrade sudo apt autoremove --purge #Install Docker curl s https://get.docker.com | sudo bash #Might have to reboot here sudo reboot #Run portainer-ce using Docker docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:2.11.0 #Open a browser and go to https://PI_IP:9443 #Create the admi nuser for portainer-ce #Now you can deploy a plethora of self hosted software using stacks in Portainer WebUI #For example https://fleet.linuxserver.io/ #You can also do all of this on desktop OS, from the Pi terminal and browser itself #Consider using a firewall like UFW

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