Troubleshooting • Taskbar Icons
Hi all, I have just started to set up my new Pi 500 but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to reposition icons on the taskbar. I have previously done this on older Pi's yet remain stumped this...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: New idea for dryer monitor
Good ideas. How about a photo transistor looking at the "ON" LED of the dryer?That's what I do for my washing machine. Statistics: Posted by ame — Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:18 pm
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Push button, signal to another Pi in the same network
Or pigpio. It provides remote control of GPIO pins over the network.Statistics: Posted by ame — Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:19 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.
Hi procountYou may want to do an arch install using endeavouros, as they have packed the linux-rpi-16k and linux-rpi-headers-16k into a working image. They do say on website that they are not...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Unable to Connect Wifi: R Pi Pico W
More precisely WPA2-Personal or PSK ... and probably you have not to hide SSID, though APs can fall back to WPA2 from WPA3 and run in mixed mode. I would try to do a scan first.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleSDK • RTC doesn't run without calling rtc_set_datetime()
I've found what I think is a problem. Well, it was for me.I was using code from pico-examples/rtc/hello_rtc/hello_rtc.c with another project and found that if I didn't call rtc_set_datetime() the RTC...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Could PyBricks be up and running on BuildHAT..
I'm sorry I made a mistake earlier. With the PUBLIC KEY in hand, we can verify that a signature is valid or not. What we can't do is generate a signature for a fw bianry (lack of PRIVATE KEY).No...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Push button, signal to another Pi in...
Hi, thanks for your help.On the Pi 3 I have a speaker connected in a USB socket.How can I play a sound over the network from Zero?You don't have to play sound over the network. Use any of the before...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Connect • Re: Connect service fails to start with out of memory...
This is on the Rpi 4 (4GB RAM with around 2.7GB free when this happens) with up to date version of bookworm 64 bit. Also it's not just on 1 device as I applied the same bootloader update on both my...
View ArticleSDK • Re: VS Code Pico Extension: Switching to RISC-V Architecture
...it looks like the build is no longer finding your system arm-none-eabi-gcc (the one at /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc) like it did before. Your Risc-V toolchain install might have gone wrong, so you...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: LED turned on by one script, need "reset" button to...
It appears that this will replace the script that turns it on with one that will turn it on AND allow the button press to turn it off. It works!I even changed the 900 to 5 to make sure the light went...
View ArticleTeaching and learning resources • Re: Advent of Code 2024
day 11Code: pi@pi5-8:~/AoC2024/day11 $ g++ -O3 day11.cpp pi@pi5-8:~/AoC2024/day11 $ ./a.out Day 11: Plutonian Pebblespart 1 - 203457part 2 - 241394363462435run time - 73.971...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Keyboard cover
Much appreciated, looks like the Apple cover should fit the Pi stand-alone keyboard as the Alt key is bigger than the Ctrl key.Statistics: Posted by ashiekh — Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:06 pm
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Simple light level detector using...
You should still be able to use https://abyz.me.uk/rpi/pigpio/piscope.htmlto see if it actually goes high. If not, then you can check your code by shorting to 3V3 and see if it triggers your code...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: When in shutdown does GPIO go back to...
This page explains why: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentatio ... weroff.txtStatistics: Posted by PhilE — Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:08 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Power supplies
Just buy the official PSU.Statistics: Posted by drgeoff — Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:11 pm
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 400 and 500 • Overclock on the 500?
I got mine today... very nice... really happy with my 400 and now a 500.. I'm delightedBut I do like to run my machines a bit faster, to speed up compiles. On the 400 and Pi5 setting arm_freq and...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Bug with locales
Twice now I fell to this bug, as mentioned here: viewtopic.php?p=2156542This bug still hasn't been fixed. Now that thread is locked, so I make this new one in order to write the steps of...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • keyboard switcher in tray area and tray area compatibility?
In the older versions of Raspberry Pi OS there was a way to have your keyboard layouts presented in the panel tray area, and switch with the mouse. Now I can't find such a plugin anymore? I need both...
View ArticleBeginners • RPI5 POE Hat 12V
Is the 12v output on the RPI5 POE HAT always live or switched? Don't seem to be getting an current to my 12V Heater when connecting to it.ThanksStatistics: Posted by deepblue12 — Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:31...
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