Troubleshooting • Raspberry Pi 5 / Bookworm 12 / XScreenSaver
Wanted to install XScreenSaver, everything installed fine. Set everything up and waiting for the screensaver to activate. The screen went blank but should of displayed "A fiber-optic Lamp"...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: A Pi Pie Chart
For personal travel I wanted a cheap laptop. Searched on German amazon for laptop, condition new and sorted by price low to high. The first with 15.6" looked interesting, for only 160€(170$): AOCWEI...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 / Bookworm 12 / XScreenSaver
By default RPiOS on the Pi 5 uses Wayland/wayfire not X11/lxde to run the desktop.Not all X11 applications play nice with Wayland.You can switch from Wayland to X in raspi-config. Look under advanced...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • curl: (6) Could not resolve host: google.com
Hi - For the past few months (since a big storm in the area which knocked out internet for several hours), I've been having all kinds of trouble with a Raspberry Pi running AWS Greengrass. I use the...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Please Help. Ipam mini2, want to get pi please help me.
They said you experts would know how to turn my ipad mini2 into linux and then add a raspberry pi 5Statistics: Posted by Roxybabe — Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:38 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: New Raspberry Pi Products
Since PiServer is mostly a graphical shell that leverages existing fat-client technology in Linux, it shouldn't take much effort to maintain PiServer as a useful product that develops a community.No,...
View ArticleCamera board • Re: PiCam 3 Wide not very wide?
The horizontal FOV of the wideFOV V3 camera is specified in the Camera documentation as 102°.[…]I guess you're maybe measuring the HFOV?Ah that makes it closer, although I don’t think I'm measuring...
View ArticleSDK • Fast interface from RP2040 to CM4 over SPI or other
I've been using USB to transfer data from RP2040 to CM4 but would like to implement something faster (right now max around 600kB/sec despite it being 12mbps). I want to send a 100kB block to the...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Re: KODI playing time and clock using HP...
But, as I said before, I suck at programming... However:I will donate 20 HP5082-7300 displays to the person who creates this program for me. I also have some 5082-7304 displays with the +/- that I can...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Help needed. Pi4 in Argon case not working
I have a number of Pi 4's in Argon cases with SSD. All work fine except one and I'm totally confused.I did some changes to it a while back but I don't remember what. I think I tried to install Moode...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • raspberry pi no green light no screen
hello friends ive moved away from my home to a another apartment and my pc has been at my old house and i wanted to use my raspberry pi as a normal pc to do light work stuff, i pluged the raspberry pi...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: raspberry pi no green light no screen
The usual place to start is The Boot Problems StickyStatistics: Posted by thagrol — Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:45 pm
View ArticleBeginners • Re: ADC data transmission program problem with Pico W Bluetooth
Sorry for the delay. I check the arduino method to send your bluetooth data and Yes it hangs when you send information every 10ms.I modified your code for pico C-SDK and I was able to transfer data...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Raspberry Pi OS Identification
The 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS used Raspbian as a base. Raspbian used Debian source code and compiled it specifically for the ARMv6 CPU used by the Pi 1 and Zero, which Debian didn't support.The 64-bit...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Will this battery work for pi zero 2 w?
And the first one claims to have Bluetooth. ???The second one only provides the raw cell voltage. No dc-dc converter to provide 5 Volts.So option 1..? I don't quite understand what W.H. Heydt means...
View ArticleGeneral • Pico ssd1306_i2c example won't run after a power cycle
I've been going through the pico c/c++ examples in an attempt to learn about the pico. If run the blink example it will run and restart after a power cycle but if load the ssd1306_i2c example it runs...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Cheapest NAS Possible Pi 3 B+ vs Pi 4 2/4GB
You mention formatting it as ext4 unless I need to plug it into a Windows PC. If this NAS actually works the hope is I won't have to keep this drive plugged into my Windows laptop. Is there a file...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: What tools do I need to replace RP2040
Keep everything under a layer of liquid flux at all times, basic rule of SMT rework. Then pins don't oxidize and become unwettable.Don't mix solder types, the RP2040 will be lead-free solder of...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Raspberry Pi Pico on Scratch with MicroPython
Thank you for your input.I have tried Piper Make and found it to be designed around their education hardware kits that they sell, which limited the scope of what can be done with Piper Make. They have...
View ArticlePython • Re: Python code that works on my Pi2 won't work on my Pi5
... it works perfectly on my Pi2 but will not work on my new pi 5.What error are you receiving? Also, not to accuse you of anything, but have you re-read the article since "It was last updated on Apr...
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