What do you use your Raspberry Pi for?

[drmike]

Does anyone know if it is possible to run rtorrent on it? I can throw one for pretty cheap in a DC including 100mbit unmetered.

Yeppers, it runs rtorrent just fine.   Use one of my Pi's almost solely for that.

 

[bizzard]

Yeppers, it runs rtorrent just fine.   Use one of my Pi's almost solely for that.

Mine tuns the transmission-daemon pretty well, with the web interface enabled.

 

[blergh]

I use my pi's as tor-relays and for graphing via cacti.

 

[MannDude]

Time to bump this thread with the release of the new Raspberry Pi!

I've got the new one sitting on my desk. Awaiting a new MicroSD from Amazon to arrive so I can tinker with it. Planning a Plex server with it.

 

[drmike]

Mine tuns the transmission-daemon pretty well, with the web interface enabled.

Transmission, oh that's what my Pogoplug does

The whole Plex server I never jumped onto, especially on these ARM devices since they lack any proper disk interface.

 

[MannDude]

Getting around to messing with my RPI2 again tonight. Doing a reinstall and going to do some tinkering... Going to play with IPB4 and some random network stuff.

Anyone been doing anything neat with theirs lately?

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Originally mine was a wireless access point.

But now I think I've given up with ARM devices.  It was fun but I haven't seen anything really practical come out of it besides for tinkering purposes.

 

[drmike]

Mine went fubar on the boot OS... so it's collecting dust until I find time to copy data off and reinstall.

 

[pcan]

I still use several RPis at work, there are two dozens in production now. The latest additions are:

• quad-view monitor replacement for videosurveillance (on lobby desks) - they display 4 mpeg streams from IP-cameras on a repurposed 19'' dvi computer monitor. The backend is ZoneMinder.
• RDP thin client.

The original RPi CPU was too weak for this purposes. The new RPi2 works just fine.

Other uses are:

• environamental monitor for network/computer rooms (sensors are cheap).
• digital signage client, for office lobby
• email+ftp server for multifunction printer. I use it to enable scan-to-email and scan-to-folder functions
• datalogger for industrial measurements (voltage, current, thermocouple)

After almost 2 years of continued use, the weak spots of the RPi hardare have been the power supply and the SD card.

• The USB cable needs to be "thick". Regular run-of-the-mill cheap USB cables may work for a while, but the RPi will be unstable.
• Most SD cards will fail after a while. We spent lot of time troubleshooting several options. The Samsung Pro micro-sd cards are my current choice. Avoid Kingston. I got mixed results with SanDisk.

Microsoft released Windows 10 for RPI2 yesterday. It is not a full-fledged OS now; the RPi just becomes a kind of peripheral of the main PC. They suggest Samsung evo and Sandisk SD cards, both of them failed to me after intense write operations.  http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/SetupRPI.htm

 

[KuJoe]

I've finally replaced my RPi B+ running MRTG with my RPi2 running Observium and it's been great so far.

I'm working on turning my RPi B+ into a self contained surveillance camera with it's own battery backup and internet connection (cheap $10 USB battery pack and free FreedomPop 4G hotspot).

 

[MartinD]

Mine sits in the shed along with an Arduino Uno and various other boards controlling everything from alarms, cameras, lighting, water features etc

 

[stim]

I've been very pleased with my Pi2 running as a media centre (OSMC) and remote file server. Works like a champ!

My second Pi has been turned into a dedicated Stockfish chess computer with a webUI. I'm impressed with it's performance so far (beats me every time, and can hold it's own against full-strength Shredder). And it's very easy to setup, thanks to this lovely man.

https://github.com/antiproton/Web-GUI-for-stockfish-chess

 

[HalfEatenPie]

I've been very pleased with my Pi2 running as a media centre (OSMC) and remote file server. Works like a champ!

My second Pi has been turned into a dedicated Stockfish chess computer with a webUI. I'm impressed with it's performance so far (beats me every time, and can hold it's own against full-strength Shredder). And it's very easy to setup, thanks to this lovely man.

https://github.com/antiproton/Web-GUI-for-stockfish-chess

Oh man that's pretty cool.