Official Display • Chromium in Kiosk mode: Interaction via touch display...
I setup a very simple Kiosk using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ with the official 7" Raspberry Pi Touch Display using Chromium to display a specific website that a user can interact with using the touch...
View ArticleC/C++ • Re: Libcamera with GS cam and external trigger
I've finally got triggering to work nicely where the cameras don't timeout (it was kinda stupid). I needed to first add camera_timeout_value_ms to the rpi_apps.yaml...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Self hosting help needed
I have seen similar reports about the TL-SG105S not working with certain device combinations and avoided buying it, I got the TP-Link "D" suffix models instead.On one occasion I had a problem which...
View ArticleSDK • Re: Problem with WS2812_Parallel example past 7 rows
I thought of the termination resistors, especially when I found that if I have one channel not connected to the level shifter, it would pick up and respond to signals from a connected channel. I tried...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Re: Pi5 and MIPI display
Thanks for teh reply but holy poopski that's a lot of work to make the MIPI port work for a display. The company is a chinese manufacturer and currently saying I just need the Pi root files. I've...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: 3 computers to a monitor via an HDMI hub. Losing...
Yes, i have found similar problems with the Pi5 running Bookworm Wayland. If I leave it running but switch off the TV or switch the TV to TV reception or another HDMI input, when I switch back to the...
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Re: Raspberry Pi as Proxy Server
Which market are you in, North America, EU, or other?1) There are HATs which support SIM cards. 2) Setting up the on-board Wi-Fi interface as an access point is easy with the NetworkManager utility....
View ArticlePython • Re: Is Python the best choice, instead of C or C#?
Just be warned, as a well-known contributor here (of some experience) says:"Languages using left-hand whitespace for syntax are ridiculous."He's right - often I have to correct "errors" in my Python...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: How is Pi OS performance with a micro sd card?
The SD card interface on the Pi5 has doubled in speed over the Pi 4 so that is a pretty good improvement and works really well. However, if you want REAL speed, then a M.2 NVME HAT plus a small SSD is...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Problems with autostart with systemd
That sounds like the expected behaviour.You have options:Login over ssh then stop the service:Code: sudo systemctl stop service-nameSwitch to a different vt*, login and stop the service as aboveLogin...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.
Ubuntu 23.10 has been updated to allow installation to an NVMe drive on the Pi5.Statistics: Posted by procount — Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:09 am
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Pico computations performance settings and tuning
Sometimes moving performance sensitive code into SRAM rather than flash RAM helps. The XIP cache is small and only 2-way set associative so its easy for code or data that will be needed soon to be...
View ArticleCompute Module • Re: How to use multiple PCIe MSI interrupts?
I've attached a zip with the output of sudo lspci -vvvI had assumed the line Enable+ in the line: Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/4 Maskable- 64bit+meant they were enabled. Also, the endpoint...
View ArticleAdvanced users • SD Card Extension
I have a Pi 5 attached to the back of a 10 in Roadon Touch panel with an NVMe base and a 512GB SSD. The whole setup is very clean and the SSD has an offset cable to permit SDCard slot access. But that...
View ArticleSDK • Re: Pico SDK compilation question re placement of preprocessor directives
This version will fail to compile if the required macros are not defined. I tend to prefer this version. Not much point in creating an executable if it is known that it will not run.Yup; the reason...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: I am loosing my mind over getting...
You can check the drive logic on the pins using pinctrl (or raspi-gpio - the syntax is the same). With a loopback cable between pins 8 & 10:Code: pinctrl set 8 ippinctrl set 10 op dhpinctrl get 8...
View ArticleSDK • Re: Problem with WS2812_Parallel example past 7 rows
You may have a dry joint, or a broken wire. Both are sometimes difficult to spot, particularly a wire that may be broken inside the insulation.Statistics: Posted by ame — Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:47 am
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: 6 BME280 sensors with rpi 4
Is it feasible to use I2C range extenders? Connect each bme280 to an Adafruit LTC4311 I2C Extender, then run ethernet cable to a multiplexer, that is then connected to the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Geometry Offset Not Working
Thank you thagrol .What you said is exactly what is going on. I haven't used a system yet with wayland/wayfire instead of X11.Without changing to X11, do you know of any terminals that support...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 always boots from NVMe SSD, even with...
Remove the SD card and set the boot order again.Statistics: Posted by trejan — Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:55 am
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