General discussion • Re: Does it make sense to make a laptop with Raspberry...
- Right, I meant this generally spoken.- If the Pi x is the latest model, I will only build a laptop based on the Pi x - 1.- The Pi 5 is currently the latest Pi.- And the Pi x -1 is the Pi 4. - I will...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Before I buy a Pi5
RPi5 works as a moderately speedy desktop computer without any extra messing about - boot it/use it from SD card, pendrive, or external HDD/SSD, or in my case, an external M2 SSD in a USB3...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Cron not running Python script
Hi all,Thank you for your replies. Especially the link to the beginners guide helped a lot.In the end, I could fix it by simply adding DISPLAY=:0 to the crontab.The scripts were opening the browser,...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Possibility of Pi 3a+ with 1GB RAM
Why can’t you increase the size of your device to fit a 3B?Statistics: Posted by rpiMike — Mon Jul 08, 2024 9:20 am
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Induction sensor PNP with Raspberry pi
It would be better if the PNP open collector drives an LED in an opto-isolator the isolated side of which runs ground to GPIO pin."Open Collector" is often generically misused to mean low-side...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: How to deactivate the red LED when Raspberry Pi 5 is shut down?
OP wrote:How can I deactivate the red LED of my Raspberry Pi 5 when it is shut down?It's either possible, or not possible. If it's possible please state how.Statistics: Posted by ame — Mon Jul 08,...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: USB SSD as Boot drive
I am relatively new to Raspberry Pi, have been using various GNU/Linux flavours for about 10 years, I have bought two Pi's to play around with, a Pi 400 and a Pi 5. I have installed Raspberry PiOS on...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Things to do with system clock (top left) [FIXED]
<snip> %u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday ..................................... does not work system clock<snip> %w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday ........................................
View ArticlePython • Re: Using Python to patch a binary.
The user just runs the received PythonPatcher.py, enters his credentials and the PythonPatcher issues a xxxxx_patched.bin file.The user uploads the xxxxx_patched.bin file with esptool.py You think...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Connecting MPU-6050 to Raspberry Pi 5
If you want to delve deeper than the code / video linked above then you can find the data sheet at:https://components101.com/sites/default ... aSheet.pdfStatistics: Posted by MiscBits — Mon Jul 08,...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • gpio_to_irq return -22
Hello, I just installed the latest version of the operating system raspberry pi OS (64bit). After the update function gpio_to_irq(gpio_num) stopped working correctly and for any gpio_num it returns...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Faulty Raspberry Pi Zero?
The RPios default swap space allocation is 100MB is not sufficient on a Pi Zero with 512MB memory.Just a note that default swap has recently been bumped to 200MB as a default.This was due to apt...
View ArticleMedia centres • Re: TV HAT Raspberry Pi 5
There is a problem with the SPI driver on Pi5. It gets triggered when the Pi is busy (specifically sdram bandwidth is saturated).It results in "spi_master spi0: RX FIFO overflow detected" which is not...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: DSI display working but not detected...
"drm-rp1-dsi" will pick up a DSI display on either of the connectors.The connector names should be consistently DSI-1 for a display connected to CAM/DISP0, and DSI-2 for a display connected to...
View ArticleCompute Module • Re: DS3231 in place of PCF8053
The INA219 Python library looks like it must use i2cdev ("/dev/i2c-0", etc.) to talk to the hardware. Provided you tell it which I2C bus to use by passing a "busnum" parameter to the constructor, it...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: Learning MIPI DSI on PI 5
it's not the overlay which sends DSI commands, It's the driver - if needed.for the LCDs which do not require an init (and/or power on) sequence you can use the dsi_gerneric overlay...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Before I buy a Pi5
4. No I cannot usefully rdp into it from a PC nor use VNC since VNC is "broken" in terms of incompatibility with wayland. Gave up on that ... a real pity. I understand that "Works for me" can be...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Attempting to synchronise LED flashing...
I am trying to synchronise neopixel LEDs flashing with a video being played using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and the Python wrappers for libVLC (VLC player). For example, I want the LED to flash red at...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: Interfacing DSI on pi 5 to ICN6202
The question is , is it possible to edit and adapt the icn6211 driver?The driver is here https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/bl ... -icn6211.cSo why shouldn't you be able to either update it so it...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Bluetooth Extended Advertising with MicroPython on...
Now, the problem is that I need to transmit in extended adverting mode, since the amount of data to transmit (each 90 seconds) is about 80 bytes. The standard advertising mode allows only to transmit...
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