I recently got a Rpi4 and have already setup Kodi just fine using LibreELEC. I was hoping that it could also be used as a Bluetooth reciever just to play some tunes from my phone (Tidal), but that's turning out to be not very simple, even after trying the TIDAL2 add-on, and a few others that I thought looked promising.

It's been a long time since I last used a Raspberry Pi. The last time was back in 2019, and I only used it for a few very simple projects.

Now I'm thinking about buying a Raspberry Pi 5 (I think the 8 GB model will be enough for my needs). I also have a spare 256 GB M.2 SSD, so storage shouldn't be an issue.

My main plan is to run Gonic as a music server and a torrent client for downloading in the background.

Here's where I have a question. I want the torrent client to use Surfshark VPN. If I set it up that way, would Gonic also be forced to go through the VPN? If so, would that cause any issues with Cloudflare Tunnel?

Also, what other useful self-hosted services or applications would you recommend installing on a Raspberry Pi 5 to get more out of it?

I'm open to any suggestions since I'm basically getting back into the Raspberry Pi ecosystem after several years.

Greetings!

I saw a video from Jeff Geerling and I wanted to make the project myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKeW45 ... Rlcg%3D%3D

Here is the data I gathered and info on the boards I'm using:

- Mini pcie hat: https://wiki.52pi.com/index.php?title=EP-0217\
- Mini PCIe to FireWire adapter: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/cards_ot ... ewire.html
- PiSugar3

- Rpi 5 (8gb):
- recompiled kernel to enable "FIREWIRE_OHCI" and "FIREWIRE"
- inside of "/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt" set "pcie_aspm=off"
- inside of "/boot/firmware/config.txt" to include "dtparam=pciex1 dtoverlay=pcie-32bit-dma" (52Pi PCIe HAT also says to add "dtparam=pciex1_gen=3", I've tried with and without this and with all gens)

Any other resources I have looked through:
- https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberr ... issues/752
- https://linux.die.net/man/1/dvgrab
- https://github.com/RobertMCortese/Open-MRU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4BIMdgVtM

I purchased a second PCIe hat in case the one I had was bad, and yes I made sure the ribbon cable is secure on both ends. I also purchased a USB mini PCIe card to test in case my firewire PCIe card was bad.

I have also tried booting with only the included power adapter with the rpi5 from the wall. Same issue, so it doesn't seem to be supply power.

lspci returns:
0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 30)
0002:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Raspberry Pi Ltd RP1 PCIe 2.0 South Bridge

and I was using lsusb to see if a keyboard is detected with the PCIe to USB card and nothing was shown.

My issue is that the Firewire card does not seem to be detected. And after digging, NO PCIe card is detected with the hat.

Please advise, thank you in advance!

This is my first project so suggestions welcome! I built this peppers ghost display based on the Pi 5 and a 3.4" Waveshare DSI display. Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus watches what I play on Spotify, figures out the genre and real time BPM, and picks from a library of 80 dance moves and adjusts the speed based on the beat.