Raspberry Pi OS • Re: How to stop Orca?
By accident I pressed <ctrl><alt><spacebar>, orca started. I didn't know how to stop it. It didn't stop even after reboot.I had to uninstall it.Is there a key combination to stop...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: MSP3520 (ili9488)
..The dtoverlay = piscreen,drm will use an overlay that assumes the hardware has an spi to dpi preprocessor sitting on it.I do not know why the linux repo allowed the kernel module behind the piscreen...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Problem with Vulkan on Raspberry Pi 5
I'm running some tests on the Raspberry Pi and decided to test Minecraft with a mod that adds Vulkan support.With device 1 (LLVMpipe), the mod and game work perfectly in Vulkan, at 10 fps.The problem...
View ArticleBeginners • ModuleNotFoundError
I am currently using circuitpython with Thonny. I am getting a ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'i2c_device.py'; 'i2c_device' is not a package.I have the i2c_device.py file on the raspberry pi...
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General discussion • Re: RPi 5 as a desktop daily driver?
I used an RPi4 for a year almost every day, now I have the RPi5 and it feels much faster. Now it's starting to feel like any other computer. It's only when you're doing heavy jobs that it's not quite...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi boots to HDMI but not to TFT
Yes, that is the TFT display unit I haveI will study the links you provided.Thanks very much for the informationStatistics: Posted by clive104 — Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:34 am
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • is raspberry pi 4 (4GB ram) powerful enough...
I am planning to purchase raspberry pi (4GB ram), but before buying it, i want to make sure that whether it is able to play 1920x1080 mkv videos (without skipping frames or lagging) or notI don't want...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Sound and sound icon disappear after turning monitor...
did an update and there was an eeprom upgrade offered, applied it and now the volume icon stays.Statistics: Posted by sd13 — Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:44 am
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Contact Switch for Audio guestbook?
... or use a small magnet on the handset and a hall sensor at pi side. Perhaps something like TSH181Statistics: Posted by ghp — Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:56 am
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Using raspberry pi to imitate button...
A fully isolated solution could be achieved using opto coupler. You could use single channel as 4N25 but this could be bulky. There are 4 channel available in one package, e.g.TCMT4100. From the Pi...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Powered USB HDDs go offline during badblocks burn-in
I've plugged the two drives into a different Raspberry Pi 4b... more RAM (8GB vs 4GB), faster CPU (1.8GHz vs 1.5GHz). I also ran badblocks against a limited range of bytes and with selective patterns...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Setting up an internet facing server...
For a fast ramp up you could use one of these commercial services. When setting up a server yourself, then- you could rent a virtual server and set up an MQTT broker and a database there- or install...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Unable to get my pi 5 off the following screen
Network install is not available yet for Pi5.Which image did you flash to your new uSD ahd what tool did you use (i.e. RPi imager)?Statistics: Posted by aBUGSworstnightmare — Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:23 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Critical shortage of swap space - pi5
I always set swap to two times RAM using a swapfile, I prefer programs to run like a one legged tortoise than crash out.I don't see the point of 100MB of swap, would you upgrade your 4GB RAM to 4.1GB...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 and 6 SPI screens
SPI4 is an SLAVE only on the Pi5. You can't use it for connecting it to a display (because it would have to be a SPI master for such role)/* * mipi-dbi-spi-overlay.dts * EDIT: overlay has been edited...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Are these limitations of the Pi Zero?
[quote=GarraTheWinnie post_id=2213265 time=<a href="tel:1713480103">1713480103</a> user_id=343317]This is exactly what I am thinking. Does it store total millage travelled? Or just start...
View ArticleCamera board • Re: HQ Camera with OpenCV
I thought of doing this, but I've had a lot of trouble installing picamera2 or any libcamera derivatives in a virtual environment. As far as I have found, there is no way to install those modules and...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: bluetoothctl seems to hang Pi 4
It sounds like you’re experiencing a common issue where the Raspberry Pi becomes unresponsive after connecting to a Bluetooth device using bluetoothctl. This could be due to a variety of reasons,...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.
Thank you.I change dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d to #dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d und now ist's OK.Statistics: Posted by jochene — Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:45 am
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Re: is raspberry pi 4 (4GB ram) powerful...
I believe that level of performance for playback has been available since the Pi 1. assuming the underlying bitstream is H264.The Pi 4/Pi 5 can also play back H265 (HEVC).Ok, and what about mkv ? My...
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