HATs and other add-ons • Re: Can I connect multiple PCIe hats to an RPi5?
Hello I had one of these boards for awhile.My intention when i got around to it was to put 6 drives to make a small NAS. 5 Drives in a Redxa Penta HAT and one nvme in a Pineberry NVME hat. And connect...
View ArticleOther • Re: what does it take to build LibreOffice from source
That's interesting.If you were using all 32 threads (8 times the Pi), some basic math (30m * 8) = 4hrs. Indicating that per thread, the Pi is about 75% the speed of the core on the x86. Not bad for...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: How to Optimize Raspberry Pi Performance for Home...
The 1Gbit ethernet will be you limiting factor and any congestion on your home network.Everything else on the Pi is faster.uSD wear I wouldn't worry about it if you have a decent card, in all honesty...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: How to apply calibration matrix for touch screen based...
The touchscreen plane is 4095x4095your display plane is something like 1920x1080you need to first scale the touch plane to the display plane with something like Code: xinput set-prop 6 152 5.11875 0 0...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Poor performance when launching as autostart
I've written a python script that launches MPV in response to network calls. When I launch my script manually from a command-line it works great, and when I create a...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: a reliable repository list
All I would do to help you would be type in the search/address abroadapt mirror excludeAnd plenty of options have popped up.I think when I had ipv6/IPv4 problemsapt-select and apt-smart cropped up in...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Hot Wheel Car Racing Leaderboard
Hello all,I am fairly new to raspberry pi, and I wonder if it’s possible to create a leaderboard type system for hot wheels (with laps) where let’s say I do a one hour race around a circuit , and it...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Pico 2 W - Dead or not dead? Access to files?
Try connecting the Pico to the Pi3.Some other options: viewtopic.php?t=383317Statistics: Posted by rpiMike — Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:10 am
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Hot Wheel Car Racing Leaderboard
Yes, entirely possible. The same or similar has almost certainly already been done. Google will find themStatistics: Posted by jamesh — Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:24 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 not booting
Hello,My Raspberry Pi is showing red LED with 3 long and 3 short blinking green LED. I have tried changing my SD card, but no progress. I've also tried resetting EEPROM to its factory default...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Creating own firmware for the Build HAT
IDK what you're doing, but, I just followed the instructions ... NBD, works fine.I will explain exactly what I am doing in a later post, but I also don't know what you are doing. You appear to have...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Microstepping and stepper jumping...
Hi,To make my Folgertech FT-5 (MKS Gen 1.4, Cartesian, two stepper motors in the Y axis) run smoother and with less noise, I have replaced the stepper motor controller with a DM542T...
View ArticleScratch • Re: Saving Scratch 3.0 files
oh my god i was wondering this too, it's been so long and still no solution?Statistics: Posted by pythonpecans — Tue Jul 15, 2025 6:50 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: RealVNC stops working on Pi update
I have a similar issue with RealVNC on two RPI5. It connects but then disconnects the client after a while.There is a problem after the last update.Interesting. Thanks for sharingNow really glad I’m...
View ArticleOfficial Display • Re: Touch-functionality of Touch Display 2 stops working...
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/bl ... 5600-L5612Code: Name: vc4-kms-dsi-ili9881-7inchInfo: Enable the Raspberry Pi 7" ILI9881 based touchscreen panel. Requires vc4-kms-v3d to be loaded.Load:...
View ArticleUbuntu • Re: getting gpiozero working
I am running ubuntu on the pi 5[ ... ]thanks in advance for your helpThe Developer who co-wrote and supports gpiozero is (or used to be) an employee at Canonical responsible for the Ubuntu OS on RPi...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Raspberry pi 4 b not booting & eeprom recovery
I have raspberry pi 4 B . I tried to boot os I didn't I get any green blink (sometimes I got 1-2 blinks) and no signal in monitor. so I tried eeprom recovery multiple times using pi imager after...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Using Samba and PHP to Transfer Files Between Two Raspberry Pis
This how Samba works for a 'guest' share:If an unknown user contacts Samba and 'map to guest = bad user' is set in the 'global' part of the smb.conf file, then the user is silently mapped to the guest...
View ArticleFor sale • Re: IMX327/462(RGB/MONO)/662(RGB/MONO)/678/585 Excellent...
Are there any updates on the external trigger? Perhaps there are cameras that have this functionality that definitely work? Maybe the imx585? Ready to buySE-SB8M-IMX585, SE-SB2M-IMX462/662 are...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Pi5 USB has power but no signal / data. Ethernet port also...
Hello there. This is my first post, and I hope someone can help me troubleshoot further.ContextI recently installed my fully operational and 18 month old Pi5 8GB into a Pironman5. When I booted the...
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