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Hi all,

I mentioned in another thread that for Christmas I got a Raspberry Pi 5, and I've been looking around for projects to undertake.

I already have a spare laptop that I'm using as a media server and for personal cloud storage. I could switch that to the Pi, but the laptop also serves as a digital frame in my room so I may as well keep that as it is.

So the question: what would be a fun project to work on that would also have some benefit to the home? I was thinking about having a local AI, but I've been able to go without AI for this long I'm not sure what the advantages would be?

What do you use your Raspberry Pi for?

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I use a Pi 4 for Pihole, but I did pick up a Pi5 with the NVMe expansion and official cooler and it's sat in my Rackmate T1 powered off. I really dont know what to do with it, I bought it under the consideration of using it for services that I run on mini PCs to get an even lower power consumption.

This Pi5 has a 1tb NVMe drive with the pimoroni base and it's solid. Booting PiOS from it and it's no bother at all. I'd love to put Plex on there, but it is still feeling a bit hardware restricted, same for an emulation box. I think I might eventually go Nextcloud, but I have it on a mini PC already that runs Plex and Pihole as a second DNS, but it is what it is.

There's also home assistant, but I've never really felt that I needed it to be part of my life so far. I could easily power down the Pi4 and use one of the Pi Zero's that I have just powered by USB from somewhere, but the Pi's are so cute they are just nice to have knocking around!

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Using a Pi3B as a Pihole.

I'm planning on using Pi5 as a retro gaming device pairing with 8bit controller.

I have a Pi4 that seriously considering using it as a calibre ebook server (with USB bridge to older SATA SSD M2)

Home Assistant as mentioned above would be a fun idea.

Trying to remember the name, the raspberry pi OS option that allows you to easily pick and choose various web based server options that's listed on the Raspberry Pi Imager software.

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