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SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



take_it_slow posted:

The OS is installed on an SSD housed in an external UASP-compatible enclosure connected via one of the usb3 ports.

Which UASP enclosure are you using? Does it actually bind to the uas driver? The ones I have are blacklisted in the kernel and fall back to usb-storage.

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SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



tuyop posted:

I’m interested in whether those USB/ethernet hats would let you use the 4 as a pfsense box

wolrah posted:

You could definitely use OpenWRT though.

Yep, OpenWRT is the way to go for this use case. The Pi 4 can also work well as a router on a stick with a managed switch that does VLANs for a connection with a combined upstream+downstream of less than 500mbps.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



tuyop posted:

Aw drat, I have gigabit.

I think maybe some of these things are just more suited for a Linux server made out of an old workstation or something.

Do love my pi doing pihole+vpn+transmission duty though. And the talk of audio stuff has me planning how I could use some of these old RPi 2s as airplay clients when we move to a bigger place next year.

Oh the Pi 4 can route a full gigabit no problem, as long as you use a USB 3.0 GigE adapter for one of the interfaces. It's only in the router on a stick configuration (LAN & WAN both using the built in port plugged into a managed switch breaking out a separate VLAN for each) that you won't be able to do more than 500Mbps combined. The limitation in that case is the shared single ethernet port, not the Pi CPU.

Also, grats on the gigabit internet connection

SamDabbers fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Mar 29, 2021

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



Fart, double post

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



Ffmpeg can accept input via a pipe, and output to stdout. There are modules for it to take advantage of the hardware h.264 encoder in the SOC too but you might still have to build them manually.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



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SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



Still less expensive than an off the shelf IP-KVM :homebrew:

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



If you're going to run a whole rear end PC server anyway why bother with RPis for server duty at all? Just set up some VMs or containers.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



USB PD is magical and every device up to 100W should implement it.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



To start with, you'll need a subwoofer.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



sinky posted:

I ordered a Pico W the day before this poo poo happened :negative:
Might just throw it in the bin when it arrives.

While this is certainly a bad move for them from a PR standpoint, it does not make existing Pi hardware useless or bad. There's no need to performatively destroy any tiny computers over this.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



VictualSquid posted:

Hadn't thought about it in some time, but has anybody ever developed a good way to reboot a headless rpi?
Mine might be crashed, but I had setup a script to reboot it if the network connection crashed. Now I am trying to remember what timeout I had set, before deciding whether to power-cycle it by pulling the plug.

And have there been any new developments on how to get a monitor and keyboard attached, except for a ludicrously priced wireless kvm.

Buy another pi and a pikvm kit and attach it to your other headless pi lol

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SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



Rexxed posted:

That's a good idea, but then you want another one in case that one locks up. Some kind of PiKVM pi rebooter. I think with a few hundred bucks in Pis we can solve this problem.

It's pis all the way down.

But maybe you're onto something here. What if the first headless pi is wired up to reboot the pikvm pi rebooter pi like some sort of piroboros eating its tail?

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