General • Re: USB cable with power switch for setting bootloader mode
A much more elegant (and inexpensive) solution.Thank you (both)!Statistics: Posted by picopirate — Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:39 pm
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: mousepad startup very slow.
Is X11 / Wayland the cause?viewtopic.php?p=2217965&hilit=mousepad#p2217965I think so.If you have solution, help me please.Re: Odd application load times in BookwormReport this postSat May 04, 2024...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Remote Operation Pi5
Usually we use either rpi-connect or VNC Viewer to do remote control of the pi from a Windows PC (or other system)Creating a WiFi Hotspot on the Pi is covered in the documentation...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • TF card can't been recognized as SDR104
I have a SDR104 tf card,named DH13L.But when i using it boot up raspi-os .Pi5 can't recognize it as SDR104,but only SDR25.Here is boot up log:Code: 5.31 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800000 BUS: 400000...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Hard drives that won't go to sleep under Linux
(I think this topic has come up a few times before on these forums - not sure if there was ever a good answer given)I have a 10 year old, spinning rust USB hard drive (formatted NTFS). For most of...
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General discussion • Re: New Raspberry Pi Products
I can understand why Raspberry Pi might have chosen to produce a single board for the Pi 500 and for use in "other contexts".The first "other context" might be a Pi501... This remember me two...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Can you get Pi 5 Serial number from the box?
Some producers put the serian number of their devices on the external of the box, together with the MAC addresses of the various interfaces.This helps a lot also for non commercial reasons, so you can...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: How to rotate touchscreen when xinput command not found
After a few more hours of searching I found the solution here: https://www.instructables.com/Rotate-Ra ... uchscreen/to shorten it up I had to do:Code: cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/then find the...
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Media centres • Re: Peppy player
OkSo I had successfully managed to run mpd with 2x40 LCD. I thought this would be the easiest option to give it a try with this kind of LCD. All I had to do was to change display width from 16 to 40...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • External Disk
i have a 8 TB pi 4. now I would like to attach an external hard disk of 8 TB. is it possible or not.???Statistics: Posted by anoopk350 — Mon Dec 16, 2024 12:12 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 2W will not turn on.
My Order number 3W342878N20808123Order numbers are supplier specific. Without knowing who you ordered from no-one is likely tp be able to help. Even then, it's highly likely it will only mean...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Windows Imager fails as Windows keeps asking to format...
You may have a good point -- I do open by default.But I did finally get it to work. It wasn't quite so straightforward though. I clicked on format, and the format disk box popped up. It defaults to...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Hard drives that won't go to sleep under Linux
It'd be nice if someone could give me exactly how to do this, using hdparm (since that is easily installable). I read the hdparm man page -> cryptic.Bung something likeCode: hdparm -S 120...
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Camera board • Getting the most FPS/Quality out of the Pi Camera Module
Hi All, For a web camera motion detection project, I Have the PI5/8GB, Picamera2 Bookwork, SSD write speed 200Mb/s and I noticed the libcamera claims for FPS on my camera: 0 : imx708_wide [4608x2592...
View ArticleSDK • Scanvideo -- changing video mode at runtime
Hi there,I've been playing with scanvideo in the pico-extras and -playground repository and I can't quite figure out how what I need to do to be able to change resolution/timings at runtime.I'm using...
View ArticleBeginners • My cheap and easy LAN setup for a headless zero with on/off switch
The otg usb next to the power-only usb can also be used to power the zero and that's what I'm doing with this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1X28F1, a usb powered cable that adds a LAN...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Lets talk about lightsleep on PICO
BTW I've tried this variant on RP2350 and it completely crashes the first core:Error: [rp2350.dap.core0] clearing lockup after double faultPolling target rp2350.dap.core0 failed, trying to...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Network mount not surviving reboot
Looks like your network isn't fully up by the time fstab is processed, it may be better to do it as a pure systemd mount specifying network has to be up.Just because network is up at ethernet level...
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Raspberry PI 4 Access Point
Been working on trying to get a Raspberry PI 4 to work as a WIFI Access Point. Followed several "how to" to no avail. I alway get a warning about the wlan0 not being available or hot spot not...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: eepflash.sh write error
anther data point -- to rule out my board design I used a Raspberry Pi M.2 Hat+ and tried to read it's eeprom with eepflash.sh and get the following. The below run is with dtoverlay=i2c0-pi5 set.Code:...
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