Raspberry π

pihole is really good, run it on a Ubuntu box. well worth the effort if you keep at it

Just of one - I set this one up as a headless Spotify player, but wasn’t actually using it ever

That's a shame. What issues are you having? Have you tried using the pihole as DHCP server as well? A quick Google suggests that should be possible on the home hub 6.

The home hub doesn't like it. I have no patience with it.

I have a better router just cant be arsed thinking of leaving BT so will see what happens.

Have you tried just doing the basic setup and manually point your devices at it instead of getting it to handle DNS for the whole shebang?

Just pulled the trigger on a Raspberry Pi Starter Kit so I can make a pi hole as per:

https://scotthelme.co.uk/securing-dns-across-all-of-my-devices-with-pihole-dns-over-https-1-1-1-1/

#csb

Got caught up by the updated pimoroni picade kit being release and made an impulse purchase, arrives thurs.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade

anyone got any good resources for the software side of things, assume I'll be running retropie on it to get going (feel free to dm links if you don't want to post publicly).

My Pi-Hole sd card became corrupted or something. Luckily I had a clone taped to the lid so it was just a case of swapping cards and it was like nothing had ever happened.

I noticed recently it was slower than usual over ssh and after running sudo shutdown -r now after updates, it wasn’t always coming back online. Last night it wouldn’t reconnect at all.

I reformatted the card using the official sd formatted tool and re-imaged it with raspbian lite and there were no errors. I’m guessing it just overwrote a block or something and refused to boot normally. It’s been in 24/7 use for nearly a year but not under heavy writes.

Always have a backup ready, folks.

This is interesting. New digital TV streaming/recording PiHat. Our digibox has been brokken for a year or so. Interesting if you could combine it with iPlayer, ITV Player etc...

https://thepihut.com/collections/latest-raspberry-pi-products/products/raspberry-pi-tv-uhat

Check your power supply, the Pi doesn't regulate the 5v passed through to the SD controller, I've read that SD card damage is quite common with iffy supplies.

Finally got round to sorting a retropie image for my picade. the pi3B+ needs debian stretch so had a whole palava taking the img from usenet and upgrading the os and retropie myself before anything would work but somehow I managed it without fucking it all up.

needed a 128gb sd card for the image but it comes with 0000's of games all with custom overlays and fancy boot videos. looks fucking amazing, just need to learn a bit more about the button mapping stuff for each emulator (and pair my bluetooth keyboard/mouse for the pc port games).

I use a HDHomeRun for a network TV tuner with Plex, or sometimes Kodi, for viewing/recording. It's OK, although not as snappy as just using a freeview box (slight bit of buffering when you change channels makes channel hopping awkward). Could be an easy way of getting TV in rooms without aerial points but a decent network connection.

It's only a single tuner though so not much use for watching and recording, just one or the other.

Can't imagine there'll be a nice integration of iplayer, etc due to licensing issues. (Obviously nothing stopping you going on individual websites/apps)

Good to know, thanks. How do you control it?

I generally use Plex for controlling it, that's set up on my HTPC and controlled with a Logitech remote. (I can also access it remotely via the Plex web interface as well.)

There are loads of interface options out there, all the network TV tuner is doing is serving up the stream to whatever program/app you want to use to view it.

First, I liked that this thread was on comment 314.

Til I ruined it.

I've been really ramping up my PI use recently. It now does:

1. Ubiquiti Unifi Controller
   
2. Home Assistant automation server
   
3. PiHole ad blocker
   
4. DHCP for the home network
   
5. DNS for local addresses
   
6. Open VPN server.
   
7. Cloudflare Dynamic DNS client.
   
   

Loving it. Especially now that the DynDNS and VPN allow me to access my shiz from anywhere.

If you're using a pi as a server, and excuse the noob, what drives are using and how? Cos I'm sort of interested in this. Especially running out pihole.

It's all on the raspbian SD card I think.

To be honest, I have no idea! I'll go and check. I've just been tinkering with it since I first installed raspbian.

I have a NAS on the network that is used to store music, photos etc. That sits away from the router in a room that doesn't mind having a HDD and fan spinning up now and again. Using Powerline ethernet.

The pi is plugged straight into the router (via a small switch) so that it has all the Mbps.

Happy to help you get it all setup. If all you want is PiHole it is a doddle. I would recommend using PiHole as your DHCP server though. Makes things a lot easier. Also, the less that my Virgin "super" hub does, the happier I am. In my setup all it does is cable modeming and routing. I am pondering getting the pi to be the router soon.

Cheers, mainly (and you'll understand this) it's time and priorities innit.

I think my job question is: I've got a load of old hard drives, can I make use of them with a pi or should I buy new stuff? I hate buying new stuff when I have functional stuff

Yeah, you could definitely use them, to add storage to the PI and use it as a NAS. Should be pretty straightforward.

I'd happily pop over for a couple of hours and geek out with you? Maybe in the hols.

PM me?

Yeah t must all be on the SD card, as I have nothing plugged into the USB slots.

Now I'm worried about card failure. I need to figure out a backup strategy.

Ah, just realised that the pi NIC is only 10/100Mb. I'll not be using that as my router and default gateway then.

I'll send you a message later thismorning

You can could in theory buy a USB gigabit ethernet adapter...?