General discussion • Re: Battery for the raspberry pi 5
Drill batteries are the favourites and probably safest, you'll need a good 5A+ buck converter.Statistics: Posted by pidd — Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:18 am
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General discussion • Looking fpr a particular heat sink
At https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https% ... lhl931.jpg is a very interesting heat sink apparently made with copper wires as radiators. It seems quite efficient but I don't know if it's a prototype...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: LED on RPI Without Breadboard?
No it won’t be a fire hazard.Electrical insulating tape is what we use.Statistics: Posted by neilgl — Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:56 pm
View ArticleOther RP2040 boards • Re: RP2040 with ESP8285 on board
Basic FR4 board designs have included microstrip (RF transmission) lines for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstrip and more specifically, Wi-Fi antennas for well over a decade. See for...
View ArticlePython • Re: How Do I Use this Export Function?
You might be better off asking at the Audacity Forum, where they support their product.It looks, however, that you can pass a filename to export to: see here - Using Audacity Scripting From Python ......
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: lxterminal commands
lxterminal is one command to open a terminal. Whether it it's run with & or not that is what it will do.*When run as a foreground task (i.e. without &) the first terminal will be unresponsive...
View ArticleDevice Tree • Re: PWM driver questions
1. Are you building your driver as a module?2. How are you installing it?3. What output do you get from the following command?1) Yes "make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(shell pwd)...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Pi 5 - Active Cooler Longevity
Notebook fans are the same. Any decent brand of notebook is used 8 ~ 12 hours per day 6 days a week. (By software developers) Vacuum out the dust once per year for many years of use. Six and seven in...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Basic Linux programminh
I am 85 years oldA youngster then. One of my most enthusiastic students was 96.You could start the way people learn in code club. Divide your age by 10 and you qualify. Everything is done in Graphical...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: XRDP, Browsers and VLC - Is there a solution for the...
Forgive my tardy response to your reply @kerry_s.Forgive my lack of detail knowledge regarding X11, as I understand it, it is a communications protocol that is used between one device and the next.Not...
View ArticleDevice Tree • Re: Configuring Bluetooth from UART0 to UART2
I see, thank you!I've configured raspi-config the way you suggested, and I am going to leave ttyS0 for the GPS, per your suggestion as well.So is this it? Should this be good to go once the module...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Power supply for PI 5
Those "smart" cables with the PD chips might deliver the amperage at the required voltage but not match the PD specs for the device plugged in. There are heaps of variations. By the time you test a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: tightvnc server shows gray/grey screen with + cursor
I'm confused about the wayvnc, but realvnc comes with the distribution which was disabled. Installing another vnc program such as tightvnc eliminates realvnc due to conflicting commands.wayvnc has...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 400 • Re: Is there going to be a Pi 500?
If I were doing the marketing, I'd start the Pi 500 at 16GB to differentiate it from the Pi 5.Better talk to engineering to see if 16GB is possible first.Statistics: Posted by Gavinmc42 — Tue Mar 12,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Entropy does not decrease?
Because the hwrng process is refilling the entropy pool far faster than your command can empty it. Even this doesn't take a chunk out:Code: $ echo "Entropy before: $(cat...
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Other projects • Modular Pi Cam (handheld)
So... I've been making these cameras lately, different designs. Modular means the camera modules can be swapped as well as the body parts eg. front/back face plate while keeping the middle bit...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • multiple PCA9548s on same I2C port
Greetings,Trying to hook up two PCA9845A on the same SCL1/SDA1 port.I got it working with one, adding Code: dtoverlay=i2c-mux,pca9548,addr=0x70 to the config.txt file.I figured just adding another...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Putty not working on RPI5
trejan,Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My RPi5 would not allow putty to connect. I had almost given up hope, but your fix saved my bacon.Just to be sure, I went to putty, went to putty's...
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General discussion • Re: SSH hangs continuosly
It maybe a QoS issue. Try the following:Code: sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/qos.confIn the file put one line:Code: IPQoS 0x00Then either restart ssh / sshd services or the Pi and see if that...
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General discussion • Re: Running AGL as guest over Xen
Maybe https://www.automotivelinux.org/ Statistics: Posted by MiscBits — Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:15 am
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