@StorageNinja said in Making a Raspberry Pi 4 or Similar SBC Desktop: @scottalanmiller said in Making a Raspberry Pi 4 or Similar SBC Desktop: RP4 with 4GB of RAM The problem with Pi (and frankly a lot of the low end ARM) is these things have incomplete UEFI bios etc. You currently need to really be working on one of the distro's designed for it (Which is likely fine for your use case). ARM and our engineers are working on this though.. Good point. Definitely an issue. Ubuntu, which is what we use, does make for them at least.

@gjacobse said in Audio book player: @scottalanmiller said in Audio book player: Just use the device built for that, the Kindle. Does the Kindle have BT? I know the three I have don't, and she doesn't have any other means to connect any type of audio device. Radio, CD, BT - all she has in the car. Mine does not, the ones that the kids have do.

@travisdh1 bs=4k is read and writes up to bytes at a time. Spinning off of yours, this is how I write mine. sudo dd if=/home/user/Downloads/filename of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress status=progress gives you a nice little progress output without having to pipe it into anything.

Improved PXE? Apparently I ordered the rpis we want a week early, good PXE would be a great thing here!

Prerequisites for client sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip sudo pip3 install paho-mqtt Python script: #!/usr/bin/python3 #Imports import time import os import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt import paho.mqtt.publish as publish #Variable setups broker = "IP Address MQTT Broker" state_topic = "pi/cputemp" #Topic to publish commands too delay = 1 #Time delay #Fuction to return temp def measure_temp(): temp = os.popen("vcgencmd measure_temp").readline() return (temp.replace("temp=","")) #MQTT connection setup client = mqtt.Client() client.username_pw_set("username", "password") #Login for broker client.connect(broker) client.loop_start() #While loop for posting to MQTT while True: print(measure_temp()) time.sleep(1) cpu_temp = measure_temp() client.publish("pi/cputemp", str(cpu_temp)) time.sleep(delay)

@iroal ddns doesnt work if it is behind double NAT

@lakshmana said in Raspberri Pi, don't use if you've used Debian based distros!: What raspberry model? It doesn't matter. The hardware footprint with the bastardized Debian built for the Raspberri Pi just doesn't work well.

@mlnews said in Five Ways to Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom: @travisdh1 said in Five Ways to Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom: @mlnews Just go and make me decide if I want to pull the Pi out or get my home lab running again. Post some projects. I want to turn mine into a honeypot. Will have to do the config again to do a writeup.

Nice! That is awesome!

Apparently a popular item now, already out of stock

Screenly OSE really seems like what we need. The fact that we don't have to spend a ton of money on hardware is a plus in my opinion. https://www.screenly.io/ose/ Youtube Video

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3: @dafyre said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3: @travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3: @DustinB3403 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3: So this isn't something @travisdh1 would want to build and leave around? Maybe in someone else's house. I haven't jumped on the automated assistant thing yet, I'm still quite leery of having something like that in the house.... yes, I know I carry one around in my pocket with the phone. Doesn't mean I use it. Also doesn't mean you want yet another one reporting everything you say to the NSA. @dafyre Are you sure you don't wear a tin foil hat as well? *quickly whips something shiney and metallic looking behind his back* Who? Me. Never! *coughs to cover the sound of crumbled up tin foil landing in the trash can*

Status lights Someone hasn't experienced the glory of the blinkenlights I see. Ah, I see the article is from 2014.

The real "power" of the Raspberry Pi is in making traditional "embedded" devices with it. Building your own sensors, thermostat, light controls, and things like that. But of course you could use it to build small servers too, instead of making VMs. You could get five RPs and make five little servers with them.

Tags missing and the title is misspelled. Rassberri ?

I have used omv in my test lab here and at home a bit. The test lab it worked well, but i just ended up using ubuntu and iscsi when i had to put something in production. omv just has a web interface, some plugins to turn on. Sort of like webmin lite but for only storage. Development seems active; they keep producing new builds. At home i installed it as a vm for a bit but when i broke my Xenproject i ended up reformatting that drive and omv with it.

@scottalanmiller While my main drive wasn't to get the rPi to learn some basic programming, I am hoping that it will help 'encourage' it. I am planning to load Linux on my laptop as the primary, and take it from there. But I also am pushing myself to use the CLI more in the rPi than before..

@NerdyDad said in Suse Enterprise Linux for the Raspberry Pi: I'm seeing it as a good entry level device to finally learn Linux Server administration at an affordable device. Granted the hardware isn't something that you're normally going to normally see in an enterprise environment, it would give me nearly identical experience managing a linux server in an enterprise environment. The hardware doesn't matter at all. Like SAM suggested, go for a VM. There's no difference. There are actually pitfalls in using a Pi, for example there isn't any RTC (realtime clock and battery). This can give you very weird results during reboots because next to no application expects a filetime to go backwards, which can happen without a working clock (depends on timing, network availability during reboot, working fake-hwclock package etc).

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@Dashrender said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi: @scottalanmiller said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi: @Dashrender That's a good point. lol wasn't my idea, it was in the article you linked. Ha ha

@Ambarishrh said in Network-wide, hardware ad blocking using Raspberry Pi: Yes, it supports most Debian-based distros, so yeah a VM with that and give its IP as DNS would work too As long as it doesn't have an ARM dependency.