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#106 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Simple is good; do away with the SD card.
Yes, but, no but...

If they have replaced the sdCard with a EEPROM, then while I agree its simpler and more resilient. its gets a lot more complex if you want to program it. Have they added a JTAG interface somewhere? Does it still have the sdCard interface or are you now forced to add an extra boot device?

Sorry, I could just look this up rather than badgering you.
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#107 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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It's shell programmable. There are failsafes to prevent bricking the Pi, but it's easy to update the eeproms... and even if you do brick it, there's a recovery tool that will reflash it from... wait for it... a uSD card...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... teeprom.md
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#108 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Just had a read, its a nice set of options, and the sdCard is still there and can be used to recover a bricked EEPROM. Looks like best of all worlds.
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#109 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Updating piHole using portainer is a doddle. You need to have pulled the original container in with the ‘latest’ Tag IE: pihole/pihole:latest and bound the config file directories to a directory outside of the container during the initial setup. To update you simply stop the pihole container, click on the name, click edit and then click on deploy....it asks if you want to overwrite, click yes and it’s done!
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#110 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Yep. I always use the "latest" tag on all containers. It's easy.

The difference for Pi-hole 5 is that it's a major change and the database is replaced.
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#111 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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I put a Transcend TS128GUSD350V in the pi, rated for 170 TBW, I think it’s going to last...I’ll have to write 233 GB / Day to kill it in two years
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Looks like a good card! You pay a bit more up front, but get all that and more back in reduced hassle.

Be interesting to see how you fare with it...
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#113 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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grrrrrr sassenfrassencursinclaudehopper grrr

It's only £2 or £3 more than the one I just bought(the 64gb version) and looks very much like the one I should have bought.

I think I might buy one and clone the current one for piece of mind.

much cheaper than the ssd and usb caddy I was contemplating.

oh look what I found, particularly like 'do the bear':

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#114 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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8GB Pi 4 now available as well as 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian as was) as a beta release.

Looking at detailed reviews and reading EU's blog, it seems there are other subtle improvements to the USB C port hardware (specifically the voltage regulator) and a few other bits.

The Pi 4 is now a serious beast and definitely a desktop machine contender...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-ra ... now-at-75/

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 7&t=275370
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#115 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Ooooh now that is interesting
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#116 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Neal wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 2:48 pm Ooooh now that is interesting
The 64-bit OS is definitely beta territory - I wouldn't even try it for a month or so - it seems to have stability issues and is missing a bunch of stuff.
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#117 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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In March 2020, 640,000 Pis were shipped.

That's astonishing...

On another note - really useful tool to automatically install the latest and greatest blocklists for Pi-hole - I went from 10 lists and 94,500 blocked sites to 56 lists and 745,000 blocked sites...

Code: Select all

$ sudo pip3 install pihole5-list-tool --upgrade
$ sudo pihole5-list-tool
Follow the defaults. A lot of the lists are from https://firebog.net/ which maintains lists of lists...

See: https://asciinema.org/a/331296
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#118 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Last 24 hours of Pi-hole (V5)...
2020-06-12 11_35_32-Pi-hole Admin Console.png
Had to whitelist a few things, e.g. alicdn.com (the AliExpress CDN network) but nothing major.

40% of all requests removed with no effect on the important content when browsing etc. Makes you realise what a load of crap there is out there...
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#119 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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That’s great Nick, I take it you installed the utility directly in the container?
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#120 Re: General Raspberry Pi stuff

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Yep - but I'm refactoring how I'm doing stuff at the moment...

Has anyone had experience of OpenHAB? There is a certified dockerhub image for it, and I am considering it as a framework to integrate the plethora of services around the site that are now running...
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