So i have a pi5 8gb sorta collecting dust, ive mess with it a little but i have a laptop and im not sure what use to give the pi 5? i wanted to explore ai stuff but ai requires a powerhouse of a device? Im also thought about nas but i feel i dont need nas right now?
What would you advise i do with my pi?
Pi hole for blocking ads or Samba server for fileshare.
Sell it for double your money back.
Send it to me, I have plans.
I literally had the the same pi collecting dust. I put it in an aluminum enclosure with an M2 bus, added a spare drive, and put home assistant os on it. SUPER FUN. now all those sensors and ESP32s I have can provide meaningful use to my life.
RetroPie? A Pi can handle most of the older, amazing games.
Pi4 is better for anything with video as it has a a hardware decoder. They dropped the hardware decoder in the Pi5 and I think you need to buy an extra module to have one for them.
Oh wow, thank you. I didn’t know that!
Set up a Tor Relay. Help the Tor network.
Look up Pi-Hole, it’s an adblocker for your whole home network. It blocks ads at the DNS level
The wife and I made a retro game console. But we mostly use it for kodi
Desktop PC
If you have access to someone with a 3d or can find the parts online; you could build a gameboy with it.
Do you play guitar?
Yes.
Im intrigued. Like a effect pedal?
Correct, if you get an audio HAT (like pisound) or a USB audio interface you can have an amazingly good digital effect pedalboard installing PiPedal. The software is FOSS and works extremely well, you can connect to a web interface to manage presets by either an Android app or webpage, either through Wi-Fi or by local hotspot served by the RPi. It comes with some effects, but you can install most lv2 plugins you can find online (requires some Linux knowledge though, but is simple enough).
The best part: there is support for ML effects, basically you can download model replicas of classic amps and pedals and run them there. It’s powerful enough to chain multiple, especially in the pi 5.
You can also connect midi buttons or pedals by USB to control presets and it’s effects, all configurable in the UI
Damn, I need a new raspberry pi now. Just bought a pi 5 for home assistant this month. With the price increase, this isn’t a good time :(
Check my other comment then :P
Turn it into a music visualizer. This is a fantasy project I’ve had
Leave it running an i2p node
Website
Set it up as a PiHole.
Which reminds me: I need to finish getting mine hooked up to my LAN properly.
Same. I got mine a static IP, but everything I try to make it work, I get no network at all.
Any chance your pihole and router are both trying to be the DHCP server for the network?
Entirely possible. This is my second adventure into RPi and I have zero idea what I’m doing. I can not overstate how out of my depth I am in this. I have real expertise in several things, but this end of tech is not one of them.
Haha, I feel ya. Try logging into your router’s admin panel and see if you can disable DHCP from there, it might fix things. (Also be prepared to to set static IP on the device you connect to the panel from in case it has issues connecting if disabling DHCP doesn’t fix things or resetting your router to factory settings should also re-enable the router as the DHCP server again).
DHCP != DNS. DHCP allows you to mix pseudo-static IP addresses with dynamic IP addresses on your LAN, while DNS looks up IP addresses based on names. DHCP, or the equivalent IP address management GUI, is innocuous… you probably want to use it to specify what static IP you want the Pi to have… but you also need to tell your router DHCP to inform your in-LAN devices that the DNS server they should use is that same static IP when it hands out their assigned IP address.
I don’t really want to do anything with my setup because it works fine. If DHCP is switched on on the pi and not configured to assign addresses to a separate IP range from the router it’s far from innocuous. Some routers also don’t allow DNS settings to be modified so using the pi as DHCP lets you hand out the the pi as the DNS as well.
Pihole comes with DHCP disabled by default for this reason. But you still have to get the router to hand off the Pihole IP as DNS server to all dynamic IP devices.
