Fellow tech peeps & geeks 😄 If you own a RaspberryPi 5 - what are you using it for?

My mate used his as proxy and firewalls, and one as media player with a simple interface to larger media library

I use RPis to fill those annoying empty spaces in drawers and cupboards

I'm about to make a magic mirror for the family. https://magicmirror.builders/

Hosting an Umbraco website 😀

My other Pi is part of an ongoing project to build a BBQ airflow regulator.

I use mine to run PiHole & a VPN (which also allows me to send a WoL package to my desktop machine!)

I also have a media server, DNS server and a backup server that backs up my hosted stuff

Oh yes, pihole is great.

@Corné Hoskam curious about the WoL setup. Anything special to know/learn

Much snappier than previous versions the support for nvme is very handy

Not at all actually! I'm sure there are better options, but I'm using a mobile app called RaspController that allows me to connect to my Pi via SSH, which has a "Wake on Lan" feature in sais app where you can specify the IP to which it sends the packet. You just need to allow WoL on your PC's motherboard for it to work!

I use a Pi 5 with NVMe drive as my Home Assistant server. Setup was relatively easy so long as you follow the instructions and pay attention to the supported drives. Otherwise didn't take too long to setup at all. I don't use WoL for the server though as it's always on.

Yeh wanting to use the Pi like Cornes setup as the Pi being always on low powered device to send the WoL packet to desktop rig. Looks like I know what my autumn/winter project is now 😄

Basically I have two 'servers', one is my Pi which I only use for Home Assistant & VPN/PiHole, and an old desktop converted server that I use as a Media Server that's also always on. My actual desktop rig though can use almost a 1000 Watts maxed, so that's why I use WoL to only have that puppy on when I actually need it 😂

Yeh I just wanted to be a bit green-ish and be able to turn it on/off remotely for the few times I need to access it away from home. As you say Corne modern desktop rigs can draw a ton of power

You would notice a massive difference in performance, as even just from Pi4 (which was itself way ahead of the 2) > Pi5 the leap was huge. That said though, if you were mainly going to be using it for sending out WoL packets, the Pi5 would be a massive overkill and you'd be better using the Pi2 for that as it has lower power consumption anyway. I'm pretty sure its capable of sending out WoL packets, it just can't be woken itself from them. I don't have this fully written up for the blog yet, but as I already have it in slide form for an upcoming virtual talk (date TBC very imminently) here's a snippet of some perf stats on how long the previous gen Pi4 took vs Pi5 when running Umbraco ContentService to create 1500 nodes, as well as the at-wall power measurements recorded for both.

Aye, while my I9-13900K & RTX 4080 can also be used for central heating purposes during the winter, I'd rather not 😂

Thanks all for pointers * Old Pi 3B with 1GB ram * Tailscale installed * Connect iPhone to Tailscale network over 4G * Open up

RaspController

app recommendation * Issue WOL command for desktop rig from app above * Wait a mo * Use iPhone with MS RDP client and remote in with 4G connection * voodooo magic So happy with tailscale and vpn/networking stuff as doing this manually I wouldnt have had a bloody clue !

I use my home assistant Pi to issue a WoL to my PC. I have a button setup in my home assistant dashboard that I can just click to boot my PC

I should maybe look into using Tailscale given it seems to be the more popular approach. For a while I've had a WireGuard server setup which allows me to do a lot of the same stuff, but it's always been much more of a 'roll-your-own' solution to the problem.

thinking the same thing, been hearing about Tailscale everywhere recently

Yeah I know I'm replying to myself here. But just to follow up on this, the imminent TBC where I plan to go over the performance of the Pi3 (...ish) vs Pi4 vs Pi5, among others, for running Umbraco workloads, and the difference between .net 7 and .net 8 is now officially online too. Virtual UmbraCymru meetup on September 25th for anyone interested:- https://www.meetup.com/umbracymru/events/298562652/

Yeh got the Tailscale recommendation from Seb