Beginners • Re: Advice for complete starter kit and peripherals for a teen
An excellent list above but would suggest adding one of the many cases to protect the Pi and make it easily and safely transportable. From memory a cased Pi would be essential in any teenage...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Does it make sense to make a laptop with Raspberry...
I think it does make sense to make a laptop out of the Raspberry Pi 10.I was interested in this topic but I have let it be for the moment. I suppose in a view years these devices are there which can...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Connect • Re: rpi-connect failing without ipv6
Well if you can't wget from Google, then I don't think this is a problem with ConnectStatistics: Posted by gsh — Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:15 am
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Upgrade Raspberry Pi 3b+ without physical access
Dante,I've got a couple of Pi's happily beavering away using older, now legacy operating systems. In one case, running a program accessing the GPIO using WiringPi, it'll take quite a re-write before I...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Raspi 5 connecting to a ESP 32 Controller
Hello all,I'm facing some issue and i'm not able to connect the Raspi 5 to my ESP 32 Controller.I'm using this ESP 32 Controller (General Driver board for Robots, Based on ESP32, multi-functional,...
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Advanced users • Re: 3 monitors possible with RaPi5?
USB-C on the Pi5 can't output video!Displaylink (not to be confused with displayport) does not require anything special from the USB port.And you would use the normal USB 3 ports for it.The...
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Camera board • Re: GS camera on Pi 5 colours wrong
I'm happy to report that the replacement cable PiShop.co.za sent me solved the problem. Below a jpeg from the GS camera on the Pi 5, using the official Raspberry Pi CSI cable (copper/brown...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: How to backup a disk?
The old "dump" package is a good choice for extX FS. The backup command (dump) allow local or remote backup, compressed or no, incremental,...It is available as a standard package in RaspiOS,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Printjob not printing
I just added it via the printers screen in the uiThanks I will try that driver.SStatistics: Posted by stephan2307 — Mon Jul 08, 2024 8:16 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Raspberry Pi 5 Won't Boot - 4 Green Long Flashes, 5 Short...
Issue Description:My Raspberry Pi 5 does not boot and shows nothing on the screen. The onboard LED flashes 4 long green flashes followed by 5 short ones, which according to the Raspberry Pi...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Forums downtime 11 Jul 2024 5.30am UTC
We're going to upgrade the forums on Thursday, 11 Jul 2024 at 5.30am UTC. As it is quite a significant upgrade, we're expecting up to two hours of downtime.Statistics: Posted by paulmu — Mon Jul 08,...
View ArticleCamera board • Re: Recording video using Picamera2 while other code running
HiMy guess is that it's locking up because you're trying to use Picamera2 from two distinct processes. Neither Picamera2 nor libcamera that it is built on allow this. It would cause the internal state...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Using a transistor to selectively power an element
Change the PNP transistor to an NPN, connect the emitter to ground, base same as before, and collector to the -ve side of the LED, 5V to the +ve side. As RasPiSteve says, the base-emitter voltage...
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Beginners • Re: Induction sensor PNP with Raspberry pi
The support team of McCaster-Carr kindly provided a datasheet for this sensor. From this datasheet the connection details:The 'switch' symbol is the PNP transistor inside the sensor.Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleCompute Module • "/" selection via autoexec.txt (was: Flashing CM4...
I thought about using 2 working installations, and a boot selector via autoboot.txt like it was discussed here instead:Discussion:viewtopic.php?p=2229940&hilit=rauc&sid= ......
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Arch • Re: How to get plain Arch Linux to run on a Raspberry Pi 5 ?
why firefox is 125 and i18n is 127 for long time, no body care? Statistics: Posted by cjan — Mon Jul 08, 2024 8:39 am
View ArticleCamera board • Re: How to use OS04a10 night vision cam
Hi everyone. I want guidance to run the OmniVision OS04a10 night vision cam on Raspberry. You may find some guidance in these posts from Raspberry Pi themselves -Third Party Camera Support -...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: USB SSD as Boot drive
Doesn't a drive larger than 2TB require a GPT partition and not an MBR (2TB limit) one. It can be converted using mbr2gpt.RonR did a write up a few years ago (viewtopic.php?t=196778) Scroll down to...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: How to deactivate the red LED when Raspberry Pi 5 is shut down?
Those devices aren't actually "off" though are they? They are in standby mode. Usually you can turn such devices back on using a remote.Or a "power button"?You don't need an LED for a power button to...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 Won't Boot - 4 Green Long Flashes, 5...
Has this Pi5 ever worked?Statistics: Posted by jamesh — Mon Jul 08, 2024 9:03 am
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