The BEST Way to Use a Raspberry Pi 4!

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This is without a doubt, one of the best ways to utilize a Raspberry Pi 4. A Home Server! If you're interested in setting one up, this video goes through the process step by step!

Flame Docker Compose Text -
version: "3"
services:
flame:
image: pawelmalak/flame:multiarch
container_name: flame
volumes:
- $DOCKERDIR/flame:/app/data
ports:
- 5005:5005
environment:
- PASSWORD=SUPER_SECRET_PASSWORD
restart: unless-stopped

00:00 - Intro
01:15 - What we're doing today!
03:44 - STEP 1 - Downloading DietPi
05:34 - STEP 2 - Flashing the OS
08:16 - STEP 3 - Setting up DietPi
13:00 - STEP 4 - SSH
15:12 - STEP 5 - Installing Docker & Portainer
18:00 - STEP 6 - Setting up Portainer
22:17 - STEP 7 - Installing a Dashboard (Flame)
25:11 - STEP 8 - Customizing Flame
27:39 - STEP 9 - Installing Jellyfin
33:11 - STEP 10 - Installing SAMBA (NAS)
36:41 - Final Thoughts

Links -

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[andrewlalis]

FYI as well: I've used the pi 4 successfully as a sort of media center. It's able to render 1080p content at 60fps, which is fine for playing stuff with VLC media player, but it can't really handle 4k due to the lack of hardware acceleration.

[mohamedghida]

thank you for making such a great guy made such an effort thanks for both of you

[spaulll]

Could you please make a video on how we can access this home server through the internet from outside of the local network with having access all the containers?

[Mr.KellyMelvin]

Lol. “With all that said, let’s dive straight into the video. But first…”(advertisement) “ I know you must be on the edge of your seat right now, so let me get straight to the point…“

[_dreadnought_]

Where was this about 4 sleepless nights ago lolol. Thanks for the amazing

[evangorman]

I like the small OS footprint that DietPi provides, combined with the power of Docker. Very efficient use of the Pi4. Thanks Luke! Love your raspberry pi videos.

[Chexsum]

a serial console is basically a text-only hardware interface thats good for viewing system logs unnless youre a developer and then its good for all sorts of hardware info

[bigjplay]

Absolutely love your videos! Have you messed around with the Orange Pi at all and would you consider doing some videos on that?

[danielbertram]

Great content, perfect video edition. Congratulations!

[marczinck]

Absolutely an excellent video! Well done.

[XNAV]

Halfway through the video and have to pause for work, but I’m loving it! Do you know if you can install pocket base via the app template you describe here?

[the-real-random-person]

BTW people who installed Jellyfin, make the Movies and TV paths also writeable, so you can upload from jellyfin too

[rakly]

FYI, Serial/UART would be used for example with an Arduino. To flash and program it's chip. "BIOS" "firmware"
These devices, like Arduino, have no user interface, so you have to control them from another device.
The communicates goes over a serial bus. More precisely UART.
UART is agnostic, making it universal. (like USB, but a lot more 'basic') and is used on pretty much any controller board.
Contrary to SSH, UART does not need or use a network connection.

[chj]

will do the job of serving media files across the network. However, it is under-power if your client (like browser) side cannot accept the media file as direct play and requires media decoding/converting. The pi isn't strong enough to do that. 4K is definitely out of reach in this case. For better home media experience, you will need a stronger machine (support up to 4k at least) with some graphic hardware decoding capability.

[gordslater]

The best way to use one is as a stand-in for an NFT. Because due to the Pi shortages, we can't get our hands on a real one of either.

[siddharthchordiya]

Does Diet Pi is optimised for the Raspberry Pi just as the Raspberry Pi Lite

And How much Storage RAM and CPU does it uses as compared to Rpi Lite

[kushavlogs]

Do you know how to connect or attach the raspberry pi GPIO pins to the DWM1000 uwb IC?

[locpham]

Hi Luke, can you recommend for me the best RAM size for using raspberry as home server ? . I saw in your video that 8gb RAM model is more preferred, how about 4gb RAM ?. Is it enough to run the home server 24/24 smoothly ?

[nosuchthing]

Yeesh. Isn't there something a bit more straightforward? I just need a folder.

[adrimathlener]

Nice, but you can't buy one anymore due to shortage of electronics.