I have a unused RPi4 (the 8Gig one) running DietPi. I did use it as a playground but ever since I am renting a Hetzner machine for (playground) stuff that I want web accessible, I don’t have particular use for the Pi.

I am currently running (outdated) Home Assistant on it but there isn’t much I can connect it with (yet, getting the flashable/compatible ikea smart lightning zigbee? bridge thingy is on my bucket list). Obviously I do have a pihole there.

Shoot me any other ideas I could run there. Some kind of monitoring of my rented infra would be cool (I already have uptime kuma on the dedi hetzner box). One idea I had was if there are some OSS security scanning “daemons” I could use on to monitor my other infra.

Thanks a lot!

  • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Vaultwarden is super, but I’d be hesitant to run it on a Raspberry Pi unless I had good backups in place. I’ve always run stuff off MicroSD cards with Pi’s, but I’m sure there’s a way to use real drives which would make me feel better.

    • Samsy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      You don’t need permanent backups of it. Vaultwarden is more like a secure “syncthing”. I crashed a system with vaultwarden had to rebuild everything but after connecting it to my devices I got the passwords from them back again and nothing was lost.

      • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yeah that’s true, your devices will still have a cached copy. Still… losing the host would be a pain. It looks like (from the browser extension at least) I can export the vault, so maybe it’s not as bad as it seems.

      • cron@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        It has some amazing caching, but that doesn’t mean a backup is not necessary or recommended.