Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

TronNerd82 <tronnerd82@aol.com> writes:

If you can think of any productive use-cases for an original Pi model
B (not even the B+) let me know, and I'll consider it :-)

I have a couple of (much newer) Pis around the house with temperature
sensors on, feeding a Grafana instance. I expect the 1B would be fine in
a sensor host role, if you can arrange connectivity.

In principle it can do a reasonable job of displaying video but based on
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/06/playing-1080p-h-264-video-on-my-old-256-mb-raspberry-pi/
getting it working is a bit of a run-around these days and the audio
performance is poor. It might be OK as a ‘digital picture frame’ but
probably not for anything you’re going to actively watch.

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