General discussion • Re: New Raspberry Pi Products
Why do we need an official anything? Computer parts are commodities. Everything works with everything else, only the quality varies.The only thing that needs to be official is the power supply,...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Raspberry Pi inside an amplifier
To rephrase the original question: Here I plan on using a bigger step down converter. On the page for pi 5's new power supply it show that I could give it 12 volts at around 1 or 2A ish (will check...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Still use an SD alongside an SSD on Pi5?
I'm upgrading my home automation system from a Pi 3B to a Pi 5 with an nvme SSD (256GB). Current software is mostly node-red, with an external USB drive hosting a MySQL database. The upgrade will...
View ArticlePython • Re: Need help for read numbers from a picture
This is the full error :Code: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/TEST-READ NUMBERS.py", line 27, in <module> text = pytesseract.image_to_string(gauss, config=' --psm 6') File...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Keep failing Bizarre Capcha
Before I ask the question, the answer I'm hoping for is "no, it isn't just you". Let's see...Just joined this forum, and both in registration and submitting posts, I keep failing this implementation...
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Beginners • Re: Is it actually possible to get a snappy desktop experience...
I use Pi400s ...which are essentially the same as the 4 with 4GB as daily desktops. I found them to be quite fine. Will it be ultimately as fast as a high spec intel box which cost an order of...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: USB Drive Shows up Multiple Times
Most likely reason is that the automounter failed, you have something that is writing to the directory (and creating it, if it is not present). Automounter then sees the existing directory and simply...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: A reliable way to secure jump wires on pins
Go old school and search wire wrapping tools.The default Pi pins are a bit short for multiple wires (fine for one) but if the Pi is headless I would just use round longer pins in the GPIO you...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Network mount on boot
Thanks! Silly me thought that x-systemd.automount is available for GUI desktop which I don't have but apparently it just needs systemd. Then another question can I just umount USB drive or should run...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Zero2W - Bookworm and no wifi
I can see there have been problems with the wifi-chip in Zero2W. Are they solved? I have not been able to find any solutions.I have a fresh installation with (32 bit Bookworm) it will not let me...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: LDO on Raspberry Pi 4B just died?
Not sure it is this case but people reported death of 3.3V if you shortcut 3.3V to 5V on gpio connector (or was it pi3?). Could it be that you did this by mistake when manipulating with the device?The...
View ArticleAndroid • KonstaKANG (lineage-21.0-20240216) on RASPI 4: Geoblocking
I tried KonstaKANG installation on my Raspberry Pi 4. Everything was working fine. I installed PlayStore and some Mediathek-Apps. I am in Germany and tried ARD-Mediathek and ZDF-Mediathek. After some...
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General • Re: Need advice on sending image data from a Pi5 to several Picos
UDP messages are limited to 65.507 bytes.Advantage is that message handling is easy.Ahh. I believe I knew that at one time (like, 25 years ago). I obviously confused it with the limits of ethernet...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Re: Kdenlive on Pi 5
Snap sucks.Use Pi-Apps. https://pi-apps.io/install-app/install- ... pberry-pi/This version is newer, runs faster, and is updated more frequently than what you can get from snap.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Bookworm Unattended-Upgrades not finding everything
Why are "sudo unattended-upgrade -d -v --dry-run" not finding the updates below?Search everywhere and I´m unable to solve the issue! Please, help me!sudo apt list --upgradableListing......
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Best way to Backup SD Card
Got it, I need it to be a bin or img, because I need to send it to someone. I was able to find exactly what I needed from here.https://github.com/tom-2015/imgcloneCreates an img for only the used...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: how to stop listing at boot
Thanks, did terminate that in the settings, did not know it did had this kind of effect. It is much better, but still at the bottom of the screen a line with "Formula 1 characters".Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Re: New Router from ISP - reset all my PI's
Edit: it occurs to add that if you can keep your old router it'll insulate you from events like your new router packing up. Maybe consider getting an old router, used as above, to insulate your Pi...
View ArticlePython • Re: Debouncing digital inputs, best practices ?
If using the gpiozero Button, you can set bounce_time:https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stab ... tml#buttonCould you please explain how to add a second parameter using the example quoted in your...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: URGENT HELP REQUIRED (Tried to backup and now I cannot...
Hello everyone, I posted this a couple of hours ago. Since then, I have dug deeper and found this (viewtopic.php?t=193153). I realised it might have to do something with my fsab. I then used extFS for...
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