Beginners • Pi 5 GPIO pins
Hello AllJust took my Pi 5 out of the box, plugged it in, and tried to run some examples form my Pi 3. Much to my surprise the GPIO libraires do not work on the 5 that was used on the 3. I'm pretty...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: PI5 and easy AI/CV/LLM
Great topic. i am installing gemma right now. Gonna play with it soon After trying, it is too slow and ruins the CPU. Temperature went to out of the charts. We need AI accelerator in next gen PIs. I...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Bandwidth Speed and Options in Raspberry Pi USB...
I've done no hard testing but have experimented with the USB gadgets.The short answer is "it depends".Now for the long answer:The maximum theoretical bandwdith for data transfer using a Pi (whether in...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Pi 5 GPIO pins
Search ther forum. GPIO moved from on chip in the PI 4 (and earlier models) to off chip in the RP1 on the Pi5. That means libraries that expected to hit the GPIO via memory mapped registers will no...
View ArticleOther projects • Re: How GPS/GNSS works without direct sky view?
David,Some GPS unit feature an external antenna connector although a long wire at GPS frequencies can be self defeating.If your GPS unit is a USB thing consider a couple of metre USB extender cable....
View ArticleDevice Tree • Re: Device tree explanation
I found the first example hereFor the second ex, I found in a book the following : "In this example, the reg property specifies that the device is located at address 0x1000 with a size of 0x100 bytes,...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: On Powering the Raspberry 5 via Battery for Portable...
You need to develop your specs first. Think about what you'd want from a systems analyst before starting to design a program. Now apply the same concepts to your hardware project. You need to...
View ArticleGaming • Re: Need some guidance on retropie on raspberrypi OS.
You don't need Retropie to add console emulators to the Raspberry Pi Operating System, and console emulators are usually open source, which means the program should compile on any Linux Operating...
View ArticleOff topic discussion • Re: Dream hardware
viewtopic.php?t=35880430 and 10or is it25 and 16?If the latter is correct and Pi 5 uses 50% more electricity, the Pi 5 is not achieving 2x.But that GFLOPS is probably not CPU but NEON?And not all...
View ArticleGraphics programming • Re: Freeze/memory corruption after 35-40 minutes of...
Stopping capture on the USB host side after ~30 minutes seems to reset the "freeze timer". The next capture session can live the same 35-40 minutes. So constantly restarting at 30 min mark could be a...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Zip7 question
7zip is not a complete programme, it is an add-on for an existing programme (Archiver in this case)I came from Windows a couple of years ago, the move does get easier if you stick with it7zip is a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: cannot login after update; but text mode login is fine
This is usually caused by trying to mount some external storage (e.g., a USB drive) and having the mount fail, but the user not notice that it failed. They then copy a bunch of files to the mount...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: VNC on Raspberry Pi 5
Tested what?VNC as is no longer works on a Raspberry Pi 5 because of Wayland. I was wondering if anyone with a Raspberry Pi 5 has tested the workaround suggested by RealVNC.In any case I will know for...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Problem with libcamera-hello on Raspberry Pi
You do NOT need sudo to run rpicam-appsYou might, under some circumstances, if you were expecting a console framebuffer previewStatistics: Posted by scruss — Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:24 pm
View ArticleGeneral • Re: eidt program with WiFi connection only
WebUSB is Chrome only, so hard nope from meStatistics: Posted by scruss — Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:25 pm
View ArticleUbuntu • Re: RPi 5 + Ubunutu latest + NVME SSD setup and boot.
what you want to do is always keep a copy of a raspberry os desktop on a sd.it boots sd first, so you can always use that to setup the nvme and should something happen, it will if your planing to use...
View ArticlePython • Re: list/dict error - not understanding
The scope of this project is to take temperature readings from the arduino (which is controlling much more than just temps btw), insert them into the assigned database, I take it you've seen this...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Identify which barcode scanner
Assuming the scanners show up as HID then possibly reading from /dev/usb/hiddev(x) could work?My concern would be the scanners may not always be a standard number esp if they are plugged in post power...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Want to make a smart tv with browser feature
Kodi can have browser add ins - https://alvarotrigo.com/blog/web-browsers-kodi/ may help (never tried any though).Statistics: Posted by MiscBits — Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:55 am
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Warming "your fstab has been modified"
Also, just a comment on the original problem: I could of course be wrong, but I believe this is a Debian upstream problem, and not RaspberryPi specifc at all. If that's the case, doesn't seem likely...
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