Raspberry Pi

Waiting for the accessories to come in from China then I'll figure it out. Probably Lakka/Retropie.

i use it as a media server, i used to use a pc but you could hear the fans, the pi is completely silent

What storage method do you use for those terrabytes? I got a 4tb external usb hdd but i've read that the pi can't power those

two external wd mybook drives, they work just fine but come with their own power bricks usb is purely only for data transfer

You need external power for most drives to connect to a Pi.
Even if you could power it straight from the Pi, you'd need a considerable power supply for the Pi in that event.

Yeah was thinking it would be that case. I use those WD elements drives, they don't have a port to power them separately. I was foolish enough to try to stick them behind a powered USB hub but that fried one of my drives and wouldn't boot up anymore.

pihole stuff
also it has a cronjob that polls nyaa for new anime episodes when they release, gets the torrent files and STFPs them to a dedicated rtorrent/NAS shitbox
thinking of getting an rpi4 so I can integrate the torrent shitbox and pihole into one device

use it as a camera that can do what I want through code. Hard to find any recording device these days that doesnt make you install some shitty spyware app on your phone.

Hoping they put out a new camera though, the current ones are fucking lagging it in quality.

cant proxy through an old phone?

wouldn't an USB webcam work?

The Rapsi camera connects directly to the GPU, and is capable of 1080p30 video encode, 5MP stills in pretty decent quality. Because its attached to the GPU, there is only a little impact on the CPU, leaving it available for other processing.

Webcams (unless they have built in encoding - expensive) are unlikely to get the same performance, and they also use a LOT more CPU.

Samba File Server
Deluge Box
Pi-hole

Soon I'll add OpenVPN server and Nextcloud to my setup

I use it for:
Webserver (nginx)
Seedbox (rtorrent+rutorrent)
OpenVPN
running "time dependent" scripts

I have a model 3 B, but i think it's still overkill, as CPU usage rarely crawls above 0.30.

Is using a pihole worth it? With uBlock / uMatrix or really any other adblocking software on PC it is relatively easy to disable rules temporarely. Can the same be done with a pihole? Or is it only good for blocking ads on a mobile?

made PIs automatically play video off USB, then sold a bunch of them to a company.
now they whine about the sd cards getting corrupted, so i'm gonna add power buttons to each PI and get twice the dosh.

life is gud

pihole is only worth for phones and if your streaming shit form your TV/console

uBlock is 10 times better and faster on PC

I have a 3b running samba/torrents/sonarr/plex/pihole

it is slow as shit

Best cheap clone? I have two Orange pi's but they have zero support last time I checked and the efforts to map the processor and whatnot were just started.

does that one only have 100MB?

uBlock works great for your BROWSER.
Other applications can be protected by pihole.

Not using it after sd card number 3 died

Orange Pi.
Armbian runs great. Most Raspberry Pi stuff runs on them as-is or just compile from source following the guides for Raspberry to get a build for Orange Pi instead.

SD cards are cheap, just copy your backup image to a new card and carry on.

Well I placed own premium pornlab server on my raspberry pi and gave access to few peoples, :) so it's pretty nice thing to have, base on Pydio software.

Yeah, I just get sick of doing this. Raspberry Pi is slow as fuck anyway.

Is the allwinner h3/h2+ less horrible now, then?
Last time I used them (2 years ago) most hardware reliant programs would barely run, or use 10x the hardware for similair performance. I recall the gpu barely being usable aswell.

Make the sd card read-only for boot and direct it to an external storage for the OS, if possible.

you can boot off external without an sdcard

Is this really a thing? Are you guys using shitty power supplies or something?

I bought my first rasp pi 7 years ago and have been upgrading them ever sense. I'm currently running two as pi-holes with other small services. In that 7 year time frame over multiple devices, I've not had one SD card die on me. I replace them like once every 1.5 to 2 years. Zero fucking problems!

H3 has most gpu stuff short of 3d acceleration implemented
You should be able to watch videos easily. Not sure if any browsers have hardware video decoding support for it though

Mine is running Pi-hole as well ass apcupsd and a bunch of scripts which ensure that my server is turned on safely after a power outage. It turns the server on by actuating a relay which is connected in parallel to the server's power button.

Power supplies don't kill the micro SD cards.
SD cards just die.
> In that 7 year time frame over multiple devices, I've not had one SD card die on me. I replace them like once every 1.5 to 2 years.
Congratulations, you haven't had them die on you because you replace them before they die.

>most hardware reliant programs would barely run, or use 10x the hardware for similair performance
I have no idea what you're talking about.
They're 1.3GHz A7 processors. They perform like 1.3GHz A7 processors.

>Congratulations, you haven't had them die on you because you replace them before they die.
Right. I also sell my cars before they shit out on me an throw away food before it spoils. I'm not sure why you are mocking me for doing what everyone else on the planet, except you, does.

>Power supplies don't kill the micro SD cards.
That is objectively false. Cheap power supplies are a major factor in SD corruption / failure. You shouldn't have cheaped out on a power supply user, next time don't get chinked

hes a retard but invest in gooder quality cards like samsung evo and sandick extreme

selling a car is a different thing to (((____ ______))), plus throwing out food thats still edible is retarded.

SD cards tend not to show signs of impending failure before they fail.
Replacing them after 1~2 years is a preventative measure. I have SD cards that are more than 7 years old and are still fine. What you're doing is more akin to selling your car after two years while it is still running fine and throwing out food that isn't remotely close to spoiling. Wasting money and resources.

SD cards use 3.3V and 1.8V. You power Pi's with 5V. This means that if your shitty power supply kills your SD card that means your shitty Pi's voltage regulators are shit and would be sending more than 3.3V or 1.8V to other components on the Pi, like the CPU. If your Pi is surviving, then why would the SD card die?

>hes a retard
>gooder quality cards
Oh shit user you just made a really gooder point. Apparently I isr a retard.

t. eop

>SD cards use 3.3V and 1.8V. You power Pi's with 5V. This means that if your shitty power supply kills your SD card that means your shitty Pi's voltage regulators are shit and would be sending more than 3.3V or 1.8V to other components on the Pi, like the CPU. If your Pi is surviving, then why would the SD card die?

It's not that the voltage going to the SD card is too high, it is that voltage going to the SD is not constant / is fluctuating.

Bought my 3b then got furious when the 4 was announced a week later so I haven't used it

sell it then and get a 4

Can someone run DOSBOX on rpi4 and see how many cycles it can run?

the 3 is unironacally better, the 4 is a housefire

>USB 2.0 is unironically better

do sdcards really die fast with rpi? im a poorfag

Dude, sdcards are retardedly cheap now that they are making them in 1 TB capacities. You can probably buy a few 8GB cards for $10 or less.

already have one but waiting on libreelec to improve.
LE is already kinda good but not up to parity with other pis despite better hardware.

it thermal throttled easily in florida heat, but a tiny fan off amazon and some holes in the case fixed that right up.

how long will one class 10 card last?

shit, not him but I got my 64GB for like 11 or 12.
forget 8gb, those are obsolete.

pihole
prosody
openvpn

I don't know, but I've been using a few of mine for years, and they were used in my smartphones before that.

I know, but he said he's poor, so I figured he could look around and get a bunch for next to nothing. Most Pi OS's easily fit on a 8 GB card.

I'm considering getting an Orange Pi 3 (Allwinner H6).
Is there other SBC that retain rpi 2/3 form factor while being more powerful cpu/gpu wise ?
I already got an Odroid C2.

always-on torrent box

surprised no one's mentioned piratebox.cc yet - the forum software is an anonymous imageboard

Aren't there rk3399 boards in the Raspberry Pi form factor?

>the 3 is unironacally better, the 4 is a housefire
source? with heatsink? running the same loads?

3B+ runs cooler than the 3B which can't even handle processing my RTL-SDR

Got this chink orange pi zero for like $10 shipped. Bought is as joke and ended retiring my old Dell 2950 and running everything from this thing.
Only warning I have is don't jew out on microsd card, you need something with fast 4k writes like samsung evo and don't run hard drive directly from it's usb.

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I'm running mine for over a year and it's still going strong, you can buy one of these for peace of mind.

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those don't look legit

>8GB
user, you can get 128GB ones for $12 now.

Yes there is Rock Pi 4. I'm gonna compare their software support and benchmarks.
But Rock Pi is more expensive than Orange Pi.

So what you're telling me is that the voltage regulator is trash.

Are you talking about the voltage regulator on the power supply?

No. The 3.3V regulator on the Pi.

>pihole at home
>crypto trading bots
>pi-cluster for shits and giggles
It’s a nifty little device. Especially the 4

The only point I have tried to make this whole thread is that a cheap, shitty power supply will cause an SD card to fail. Never once did I say anything about the pi itself.

Don't buy a cheap power supply if you don't want a corrupted SD Card. This isn't some well guarded secret. Everyone in the Raspberry Pi community knows this, I'm not sure why no one on Jow Forums knows this.

>not sure why no one on Jow Forums knows this
You DO realize where you’re posting, right?

So Raspberry Pis DO have shitty 3.3V regulators.
Good to know.

You're right. Even the basics are too much for the average Jow Forums poster. It's kind of sad, Jow Forums has always been retarded but years ago I learned about distros like Aptosid and Sabayon on Jow Forums. There were actually some intelligent posters that would pop up from time to time.

Not sure if retarded or troll but my bet is retarded troll.

Yeah, /diy/ is the only semi-good board left for electronics.

different user than you were replying to but I'm currently seeding around 18TB with a raspberry pi 3b (close to 600 torrents) and at the same time sharing all of it over samba

What torrent client are you using?

new to raspberry, thought about buying it to host some discord bots i did for my friends and me but i think that will be not much of a problem for it since they don't consume much processing power. what are some other good projects for starters? thought about doing the radio station thing for the beginning

I've used both rtorrent and deluge, currently the latter since it's easier to set up but got slightly better performance with rtorrent. Still curious to see how well transmission handles that much data but until nothing crashes I won't bother.

At one point I was using transmission on a pi. Never had a problem but I was running about 1/10 of the torrents.

How do you access your torrents?
I'm also running deluge on a pi and have 583 total torrents (451 paused, 127 seeding) but when I open the client (ver 1.3.14) on Windows 7, it takes a minute or more to load and eventually it just freezes and I need to restart the client -- the daemon on the pi keeps running though, so I haven't bothered changing things.

Rock64

The 4 is like 20% hotter while being 120% faster.

I use a 3b+ for Pi-hole and a NAS. Really wish I'd waited for a Pi 4 instead because not having proper Gigabit Ethernet really hurts.

Even the best buck regulator can't do anything if its input voltage dips below the rated output voltage.

>hurr why doesn't it have a boost mode
Because Pi isn't engineered to be retard proof.

I bought an Asus N3050T for my router/NAS/torrent box, cost me the same $50.

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>Even the best buck regulator can't do anything if its input voltage dips below the rated output voltage.
If the power supply dropped below 3.3V then I seriously doubt the Pi would have still been running at that point.
Some parts run at 5V, some at 3.3V, some at 1.8V. The 5V components will drop out before you get to 3.3V.

currently i use one Pi3 B+ to host a wiki for myself, and the other Pi3 B+ to host 2 Discord Bots

i want to get a Pi 4 with 2 or 4GB RAM and 2 external 2TB HDDs (still not sure if i want 2.5 or 3.5 inch) for a NAS (one for data, one getting rsynced like once a week).

why

I was interested in getting one too. How viable would this be to run transmission and nextcloud? That's all I really see myself running on it

sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon

whats the best way to power a pi4 remotely? I have been using portable cell phone batteries but it is very hit and miss because some dont put out enough current to power the pi, and the ones that do cant be daisy chained. The whole process is very trial-and-error and a headache. Is one of those expensive large camping batteries my only option?

They should make a specialized RPI battery for remote applications when access to reliable power isnt available. Anyone have any creative solutions?

Transmission will run fine unless you seriously overload it with torrents.

Nextcloud will work but is much slower than a proper server. That being said I ran nextcloud (owncloud at the time) for over a year on a rasp pi 2 and the slowness was very tolerable.

I would assume that the new pi 4 would be able to run both those instances smoothly. Thanks for the input