General discussion • Re: Whether ID EEPROM count as programmable GPIO pins
/usr/bin/pinctrl should help you find the answers you seek, possibly with a little experimentation.Statistics: Posted by Murph9000 — Sat Jan 18, 2025 3:35 am
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Warning messages updating rpi-eeprom today
Just did the update, got the same warnings, but I did a "dpkg -L rpi-eeprom" before and after which let me diagnose it. The paths in the package have changed from /lib/firmware/raspberrypi to...
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General discussion • Pi 5 most popular boot options for home office
The Pi 5 offers boot from microSD or USB 3 rusty rotating disk or USB 3 SSD or direct from NVMe. I use NVMe for development work and microSD for projects that might move to a Pi 4. What do you use for...
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MicroPython • Re: Pico and OLED Screen (OSError: [Errno 5] EIO)
The other possibility is that the interface mode need to be set. The boards have one of the two enabled. In the following link, a similar board need changes to jumpers:Thank you so much @katak255....
View ArticleAdvanced users • SSH fails on Pi5-8GB with USB -SSD Boot
Image created with latest Pi imager and SSH is enabled - Pi Connect works finebut SSH always says bad password regardless of what I reset it to manually.Am using a 47W power charger from Canakit with...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: SSH fails on Pi5-8GB with USB -SSD Boot
Image created with latest Pi imager and SSH is enabled - Pi Connect works finebut SSH always says bad password regardless of what I reset it to manually.What other computer are you using to SSH into...
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HATs and other add-ons • Re: "Active Cooler" thermal pad size
I tried again, and now I've done it!I have now cut the pads to the exact size and stacked them. The side with the PMIC is slightly higher, but everything is in its place! The temperatures are also...
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General • Re: Pico Cannot Handle Multiple Servos ?
Very interesting, here is another case. I'm guessing the DC-DC section gave up the magic smoke... See this thread from a few months ago:Pico W overheating/fried using servo driver...
View ArticleCamera board • shortest quality lens for use with GS camera?
Hi, the lens I have for my global shutter camera is this one. I'm attempting to stuff this camera into the body of a dead game camera, but it isn't short enough to close the front and back of the game...
View ArticleGeneral programming discussion • Re: 24 Minute Sun Simulation
Update: New Pico and logic converter have arrived.I plugged in the test strip of 30 LEDs and everyone of them lit up white. Never happened before and I don't know why they are now.Logic converter...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: pigpiod: System does not appear to be a raspberry pi
See viewtopic.php?p=2286977#p2286977Statistics: Posted by wildfire — Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:35 am
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 came with no SD card
Alas, two new issues have arisen:1.) I purchased a SmartQ card reader from Amazon, as well as a SSD 256GB NVMe card from Pi Shop. However, when I inserted the card into the reader and the reader into...
View ArticlePython • Re: Rpi5, pi3d, x11, uggg lol
OK, Well I finally got this figured out! Fresh bookworm with desktop installation, boot to the CLI. Screw messing around with the virtual environment, let the installs rip with --break-system-packages...
View ArticleBeginners • Safe To Leave Remote Connection on (Remote.It)?
I currently have Remote.It (similar to Raspberry Pi Connect) setup on my Pi so whenever I'm away from home I can access VNC & SSH. Typically I just leave the connection on at idle and never...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Canakit Pi 5 w/ SSD Kit and heat
The official Pi5 Active Cooler and official M.2 HAT+ happily co-exist. There's not a huge amount of space between them, but it's enough for the cooler's fan to work, and temperatures seem ok. It's an...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Why is power consumption so high?
The Pi5 doesn't sleep.Statistics: Posted by W. H. Heydt — Mon Jan 20, 2025 2:59 am
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Camera board • Re: Help! Trouble Synchronising Global Shutter Camera (IMX296)...
Camera seems to be synchronised now. Main thing was not soldering the wires in properly. So it seems I should have captured both images and then capture the metadata of both afterwards.Thank you...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: No boot after filesystem expansion. Anyone else seeing...
I didn't think you had to explicitly (manually) expand the filesystem. It happens automatically on the first boot.Note that this can take a long time and the screen will be black - essentially, it is...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • USB Power Issues with SSD on Raspberry Pi 4?
Hello everyone,I've noticed that my Raspberry Pi 4 sometimes struggles to properly power an externally connected USB 3.0 SSD. The disk disconnects sporadically, and occasionally the system seems to...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 not working
Has anything been connected to the GPIO pins?Sounds terminal.No, nothing is connected to the GPIO pins.Statistics: Posted by harshsr923 — Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:05 am
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