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Advanced users • Re: Pi becoming unresponsive for a period of time
I use these SD cards:I've been using them for years without any problems. I have also used USB sticks, Sandisk Extreme Pro and Samsung BAR Plus among others. For me, SD cards have always worked...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: touchscreen keyboard no "@" symbol
Neither of those seem correct. I'll need to check the device when I get home, but I remember not having a number row on the on screen keyboard, pushing the number/symbol option, and seeing the '@' key...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: J2 Connector for Remote Power Button
Neither of those are for a power button.The two pin one is for a backup battery for the RTC (in the PMIC).The three pin one is a 3.3v TTL UART.I'd expect to find details of the required connector and...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Beep ! (how to make beep ? on a RPI? )
I have a RPi5 that normally stay disconnected by keyboard and monitor, only power, ethernet and a couple if sensors.what i need is something that all PC have: a beeper, that cam be made ringing by...
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Re: Running Pi-hole on a Desktop system
Technically, there's no issue with running pihole on your desktop. It's just like any other Linux system, right?Operationally, will other computers on your LAN be happy if their DNS server goes down...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: RPI5: Incompatibility with a certain powerbank
Your power supply seems to be ok. That supply is 30,000mAh.The RPi5 expects a RPi power supply (PD type). That supply talks to the RPi. If the RPi doesn't receive that message from the PS, you get...
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Raspberry Pi OS • Adding an 'identify' feature for monitors in Screen...
If you have multiple displays (lets say... 6 or so), it can get very confusing trying to figure out which monitor is which in the Screen Configuration utility.Right now to figure it out, I move a...
View ArticleJava • Bluetooth Java API
I have successfully used Bluetooth with java on an RPi 4B with a 32 bit operating system and Bluecove. However I have not found a way to do the same on an RPi 5 with 64 bit OS.Is there a solution? I...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: rpi5 & waveshare 10" DSI touch screen
I do want to use the virtual keyboard but need it ti minimize while not in use just by taping outside the virtual keyboard just like it does in Android!Statistics: Posted by phredo — Wed Nov 13, 2024...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: No Internet connection with ethernet cable plugged in
An old trouble shooting technique is to ask questions to which the answer should be obvious...but isn't always. Also known as "stupid questions."You've plugged a CAT-5 (or better) cable into your Pi....
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Calibrating LPOSC on an RP235X
There are use-cases even if it is wildly inaccurate.The primary one is polling very slow events for power saving purposes - go to powerdown state "for a while", wake up, poll something, go back to...
View ArticlePython • Re: Package discid not found
Installation by pip in a virtual environment works fine. However, I want to install the package in the system location so that I do not need to activate a virtual environment to run the program. As...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: After enabling read only file system I cannot download...
That's an old version. overlayroot_0.18.debian13 has been replaced by overlayroot_0.18.debian13+deb12u1. A sudo apt update should update your local indexes so the new one gets downloaded.Otherwise the...
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General discussion • Re: New Raspberry Pi Products
BTW: i like the M2230 formfactor very much! Reminds me on the fullsize SD-Format (24x32 mm), used in the very first Raspbery Pi generation.According to the markings the power use is 2A at 3.3V or, in...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: New Pi 5, something continuously filling SD
used Code: ncdu -x / and found Code: /home was 49.5GB, which seemed quite excessive. Drilled down into the folders and .pm2 was 45GB. Removed pm2 and I now have 46.9GB free space and it's not being...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Problem with Apt and latest system update on Bookworm 64
Are you using a HAT/BASE to connect your SSD? Looking at the specs it is a tad power hungry and may have issues at boot. I think the 8W max is outside of the specs on the PCIe connector. Some HAT/BASE...
View ArticleSDK • Re: Trying to figure out Dormant on RP2350
"power states" makes sense. low power state, P1.0 etc. or normal operation P0.0 etc.This statement from the datasheet is nice:Power domains, and transitions between power states, are controlled by a...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Calculating and Displaying Tank Level...
Well this is quite simple.First What kind of sensor output do you have? If it is 4..20 ma you will need to add a resistor GND to signal to convert the current to voltage.Something similar to this...
View ArticleSDK • Re: troubletrouble defining a macro to replace a zero argument fn call:...
Ah , the Apple II and the Beeb. Those were the days. When the CPU was so pathetic you could really gain with artful programming and back up storage was on 5.25" floppy dicks.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticlePython • A script written in Python doesn't behave consistently depending on...
System: Pi-4 (8g) running Buster on a GoPiGo-3 robot.Background:I have a script that I (attempt) to run during startup, (as a cron job), that shakes and centers the pan-and-tilt that holds the robot's...
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