Troubleshooting • Re: RPi 5 mouse pointer/cursor constantly blinking
Again, useful feedback, many thanks.I saw several posts along similar lines, one suggestion was to change the size of the pointer, either larger or smaller, another was to scale the screen by .99...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: USB Microphone for Raspberry Pi 5
Providing a better list of requirements will get you better recommendations. What is your budget, define "capture clear sound" in audio terms and if possible provide your use case.Capturing...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Custom RPiOS Image
You can pick a minimal raspberry pi OS image (lite) and customize it using scripts. I build custom images of BBN Marine OS fromraspberry pi lite OS images. It works best on CircleCi which supports...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Connecting to Hotspot on Phone
The only thing I would add is that some phone hotspots require whitelisting of connections before they are allowed to connect. The Pi certainly does not care that it is connecting to WiFi provided by...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: VLC fullscreen playback on Pi 3B - poor performance
I appear to be getting a side-effect from killing xcompmgr: On exiting playback from the command line, the command line doesn't get the focus back, as it does when xcompmgr is running. Do you see any...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Suspicious line in bcm2835_dma.c
I haven't explicitly excluded that, but I've also not consciously copied it. I haven't added support for the Lite controllers yet anyway.It is valid in the DMA lite controllers patch - the lite...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: RPi5 wont boot...
and you are plugged in to the wrong HDMI port. (diag display shows no connection to HDMI0, but connected to HDMI1Does that matter?Statistics: Posted by amclw1 — Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:56 pm
View ArticleBeginners • Re: New RP 4B 1st boot - HDMI screen not displaying
- Reimage RPiOS and configure SSH at this step ('enable ssh' checkbox + specify [username]/ [pswd])- Boot the RP (waiting at least 10' to be sure), connected to the PC screen and to my Router.- I'm on...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 external USB camera fail
Also, check the USB webcam using Code: v4l2-ctl --list-devicesThis shows for my USB webcam Code: ...HiCamera: UVC Camera (usb-xhci-hcd.1-1):/dev/video0/dev/video1/dev/media3and lsusb shows us Code:...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Can’t boot my Raspberry Pi 3 Headless
For a Pi3 yes you could use an ethernet cable from Pi3 into your router.WiFi should also work if you put the WiFi SSID and password into the Imager OS Customisation settings.(or set it up on the Pi3...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Need help with broken inductor
The inductor in question is this part..Bourns SRN4018-4R7M. FIXED IND 4.7UH 1.9A 84 MOHM SMDhttps://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products/d ... 7M/3821622Statistics: Posted by RGJ-PI — Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:23 pm
View ArticleAdvanced users • pi4-next bootloader release
Now that Pi5 firmware releases have settled down we've rebuilt Pi4 bootloader from the common codebase. This change won't add major features to Pi4 (sorry) but it should allow bug fixes in common code...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: PCIe timeout with Argon Neo 5 NVME
I too have an Argon Neo 5 NVME case and I have no issues with using my SSD (Crucial P3). The case is unlikely to be at fault, more likely a compatibility issue between your SSD and the Pi5. The PCIe...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Frequency counter stops after while
I got an error:Code: >>> %Run -c $EDITOR_CONTENTTraceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ImportError: can't import name DMA>>> Should...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Image File Utilities
Ok, backups are more important than having the /home partition so I moved the content of /home partition back to the root partition and deleted the /home partition. So I'm down to just the /boot and /...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Solid green light of death after couple day running...
I noticed that after the led come solid green, hdmi display still show the image for hours. Mean while all keyboard, mouse, ssh are dead when the green light become solidStatistics: Posted by Kizovinh...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Ensuring PWM/GPIO outputs are low after critical events
I could do this in MMBasic and obviously therefore in C - sorry can't help with pythonIn MMbasic you can trap CTRL-C and action anything you want very easily. You will want a hardware watchdog...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Powering a Raspberry PI 4 8GB through a 4 channel relay...
The relay module does not transform the 12v from the power supply to 5v.The Pi4 does need a 5V power supply - I would buy an official one for that.The Pi GPIO that you use to trigger the relays have a...
View ArticleBeginners • Unable to delete ?hidden? Files
HiI’ve tried to install astropy onto a raspberry pi zero, to read fits files.It’s installed an astropy folder etc and is in Python 2.7 folder?Thonny uses Python 3.0. Therefore no astropy module when...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Unable to delete ?hidden? Files
How did you install it? Using pip? There may be a "remove" or "uninstall" option.Statistics: Posted by rpdom — Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:58 pm
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