General discussion • Re: Remote battery parameters measurement on android app
Do you have an local instrumentation measuring these quantities? Are they available via the charge controller, for example?If you have existing instrumentation then it makes sense to take advantage of...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Raspberry Pi Pico serial behaviour with CTS/RTS
Yep, one second timeout, as I said.BTW after receiving at least one character, timeout_char is used (one second by default, as well)Statistics: Posted by gmx — Thu Feb 05, 2026 10:49 pm
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General discussion • Re: Fullsize keyboard kit?
I need a full size keyboard, for my big meaty man handsKey size:There are special keyboards for very young children where the keycaps are "50%" bigger. Limited range of keys. The pictures look like...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: hat for sandisc X400 SATA Drives
IME pi4 and pi5 can cope with a 2.5 inch SATA HDD without extra power, I presume the same would be true of a M.2 SATA SSD.Statistics: Posted by plugwash — Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:58 pm
View ArticleCamera board • Re: rpi4 camera module surveillance
Not motioneyeos but this Python/Picamera2 script, based on some of the Picamera2 examples, provides a minimal surveillance system.Statistics: Posted by sandyol — Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:06 am
View ArticleGeneral discussion • pi 5 "normal" operating temperature
What is the "normal", "expected" operating temperature of a pi - 5? Mine runs at about 50 degrees Centagrade at idle with the cooler installed. I have an external fan blowing across the cooler which...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Ram price hikes.....killing RPi sales?
Most Pi go to industrial customers. They'll almost certainly have to soak up or pass on the price increases. Definitely the case. In an industrial control unit costing thousands the difference can be...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: pi 5 "normal" operating temperature
30C to 50C is quite normal with PI5 at idle, mine are at the upper end. When you say the "cooler", which cooler are you talking about?Statistics: Posted by pidd — Fri Feb 06, 2026 10:44 pm
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Re: I'm using a USB mic with Raspberry Pi to...
@MikeDB will probably know more about mobile phone accuracies?By a huge coincidence I downloaded every Android sound level app I could find on Play Store onto my Samsung phone a few weeks ago. The...
View ArticleOther RP2040 boards • Re: Beware the clones
I do not understand why anyone would want USB-C on a standard-speed, standard-power device.I have a shoebox full of spare USB cables of various types, I've also got a very large jumbled up box of...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Help with interfacing with Lyontek LY68L6400
To estimate the RTT delay, I did some measurements here: viewtopic.php?p=2361331#p2361331Need to add some load delay + LY68L6400 tACLK (CLK to output delay) 2-6 nsRunning PIO at 200 MHz will give you...
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Networking and servers • Re: 2 IP addresses, but WLAN disabled
Many thanks to all who replied.I think I found the answer in the article that Milliways linked. When I edited the ipv4 configuration, using nmtui, I had not changed the configuration to Manual, but...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Attempt to move my current filesystem on external SSD and...
sdm V15.2 is released and includes automatic encryption of data partitions as well as the rootfs partition. Here's a getting-started example that shows how to encrypt the rootfs and create and encrypt...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: What product would you like to see?
Added falkon, supposedly a lightweight browser. Not really. Code: VIRT RES SWAP USED %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 889.1G 1.0G 0.0 1.0G 0.0 12.2 15.19 chromium 38.6G 1.2G 0.0 1.2G 0.0 14.8 55.35 firefox...
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Re: RPi4 104 Mbs only
I may not know a whole lot about some of those things, but antennas matter. The antennas on a RPi are significantly different than your PC. So you could try getting a new physical antenna (e.g....
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Enabling Telnet as Client from Pico using uPython,...
Looking like it should work, real data from the real server on the Pi -Code: b'DX de XxxXX: 7003.6 XXxX CW 1943Z'b'DX de XXxX: 28083.9 XXxXX 1943Z'b'DX de XXxXXX: 18072.0 XXx/XXxXX QSO + 2.5...
View ArticleBeginners • Power Supply
Hi All, What Battery Pack or HAT do you recommend for the Pi 5? I guess I'm looking for a UPS.Statistics: Posted by kasari62 — Sat Feb 07, 2026 8:31 pm
View ArticleBeginners • After reboot, no more sound via HDMI
Hi,I use Pi5 with 8Gb and a NVMe disk.Till now I was able to use it to watch news channels on internet as also youtube videos.After a reboot toody, I discovered that I have no more sound via HDMI...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Question about Raspberry Pi 4 dual RAM variant
Heh... That's the opposite of the usual desire in this sort of change.Yeah, I am probably a bit of a tyrannosaurus. I have a very specific use case for my Pi4's where I insert them into the cartridge...
View ArticleKeyboard computers (400, 500, 500+) • Re: SSD for Raspberry 500+
Considering it's actually Saturday, I wonder why it says Sunday! Am I in a Time Warp?What says it's Sunday?Statistics: Posted by DirkS — Sat Feb 07, 2026 9:35 pm
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