Pihole is easy and light enough. I used to host Transmission (transmission-daemon) on a 3B+ and it worked alright for seeding around 300-500 torrents. FreshRSS also worked alongside.
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Pihole my is choice too. It’s pretty good, but for some reason video ads still get through even off YouTube? Is it possible to block them?
You can't do that with Pihole as the ads come from the same domains, and basically need a browser extension or an app with a built in equivalent.
If you're in the UK though, it does block the ads on All4 which was a nice surprise. It even works for the TV app.
I am in the UK and that’s really useful to know. Thanks
YouTube ads don't come from a separate server. They come in the same way as the video. They pretty much need to be filtered out at the player end (e.g. browser plugins).
Pihole blocks ad domains. YouTube ads are still from youtube.com, so you have to block them on the browser level with something like Ublock Origin
Use firefox with uBlock Origin to get rid of YouTube ads.
Pihole is the best starting point in my opinion, helped a lot of my friend to get started !
Goes against the spirit of self-hosting but for some stuff(Email, DNS, Passwords), I just SaaS it out. As much as I love my lab, nothing self-hosted in my prod environment is critical.
Exactly, I can barely maintain a media server I really don't want to be responsible for my passwords and photos. There are secure alternatives that are private and open enough for my needs...
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I'm hosting https://www.home-assistant.io/ on raspberry pi's.
I just started with HA as well and it's a massive rabbit hole haha. So far set up thermostats for rooms, motion sensors with smart lights and integration with Frigate for my security cams. Also set up a tablet with HA which displays all our photos from the NAS as screensaver.
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For the cost of a rpi, just get actually capable hardware. Once you actually get anything running you'll wish you had real hardware.
I've been leaning this way lately. From a cost/capability standpoint, RPis were easy to justify when they were ~$30, but not as much at their current inflated prices unless you have specific power consumption and form factor requirements. Used/refurbished Dell thin clients and MFF PCs can be had for $40-100, ranging from fanless systems with low-power Atoms and Celerons to full-fledged desktops with Core i-series CPUs, all with memory and storage included more often than not. I personally just picked up a Dell OptiPlex MFF with an i5-9500T, 8GB RAM, and 256GB SSD for $100.
What kind of hardware, with a similar price point to the rpi, do you think of?
This reminds me of the old "build a gaming pc for less than a console" thing was popular for a while.
So let's assume a $90 raspberry pi (someone really splurged here)
- $90: case
- $0: cpu, get used from a friend
- $0: motherboard, get used from a friend
- $0: ram, get used from a friend
- $0: power supply, steal from work
You can drop the case and just use a cardboard box, which would allow you to afford storage. I'm just going to assume you boot from a usb and keep everything in memory.
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honestly it is good to start with and for controlling machines like an array of 3d printers but a dumpster dive laptop will be faster. RPI4 is quite old now.
with that done:
- jellyfin
- smb server
- syncthing
- tftp with wake on lan / clonezilla to backup your other machines
jellyfin
How good is the performance of that on a rpi4? Does it work for transcoding videos?
It doesn’t. Not well. And for larger files, even on cable connection without transcoding performance is god awful, sometimes it doesn’t play, or stutters or you get awful audio desyncs. Don’t do jellyfin on rpi
Are you talking about 4k files? Because I have been running Jellyfin on my pi400 for the past two years and I've not had those issues at all. My content is 1080p max though.
Yep, 4k, sometimes with HDR. It was happening mostly on those. But 1080p files were also sometimes affected
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it ever performs awfully slow on my secondary computer with i3 cpu.
PiVPN is a simple home VPN solution that's worth exploring.
Is you are interested in smart home/home automation Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform and makes a great Pi project.
I’ve recently set up pivpn with duckdns. Are there any security related steps I should take or is the out of the box config good enough?
If you have a 3d printer also check out Klipper, Octopi etc. I run mine off a pi zero 2 and it is a leap in performance over the stock board on the Ender 5.
Yeah OctoPi is a game changer. Take it one level higher if you have several 3D printers and run OctoFarm. Now I just click a button and my multi-piece print is distributed to my print wall.
My list for my raspberry pi 4 (4 GB):
- Nextcloud (synced cloud storage, like Dropbox; it can do more with plugins but this is all I use it for)
- FreshRSS (RSS reader)
- Wallabag (read it later, like Pocket or Instapaper)
- Gitea (git project hosting like Github; admittedly I don't really use this one much)
Pihole is a good start, though I personally use my Pi 3B+ for printer server over WiFi since I have a dumb Epson printer.
One suggestion might be to load a Debian build on it and use it for docker containers. With docker containers you can do so many different things. I have a PI 4 and it does all of the following:
PiHole - For blocking ads. (Everyone should have one of these)
OpenMediaVault - For NAS
Portainers - For loading docker containers
Radarr - Downloading Movies
Sonarr - Downloading TV Shows
Tautulli - Monitors my plex server
Overseer - Allows members of my plex share to request content.
NZBGET and Real-Debrid Torrent Downloader Clients - For downloading content from usenet or real-debrid.
I have one Pi4 running all of these as docker containers. Have fun!
Seconding - you can actually squeeze a surprising amount of use out of a Pi4 running Docker.
I have an 8gb one with ELK stack in docker compose, and it's struggling to say the least, even without traffic.
Any chance you can point to a good tutorial for setting up these apps on the RPi?
I've been enjoying Plex (media server) and Shinobi (NVR)
Pi Hole is a good start. If you're into movies and TV shows, sonarr /radarr/bazarr is an option
Would highly recommend to use docker images from https://www.linuxserver.io Except pi hole, I've dockerized everything. So much easier than installing stuff as every application does that differently.
If it's a Pi3b+ - you can actually host a vanilla Minecraft server on it, with some heavy optimization to reduce memory usage and no more than 4 players online. It's a fun experiment, however impractical.
I have two Raspberry Pi (4 / 2) and I use them to selfhost:
- AdguardHome (two instances)
- HomeAssistant
- NextCloud
- Forgejo
- VaultWarden
- NTP server
Those are all as Docker services so I can easily switch to new devices in case I need to. All of them work like a charm.
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