General discussion • Re: What product would you like to see?
More partner product than pure in-house products - There is a huge amount of cheap 'tat' out there which people would love to repurpose into something more useful for themselves. Fitness trackers and...
View ArticleBeta testing • Re: Unable to mount rootfs via NFS on Pi Zero with USB network...
By the way, Thagrol has two USB Ethernet Gadget guides.I do. The one I referred to is about network booting a Pi Zero.But it isn't. As I and PhilE said it's about network booting a zero (or any other...
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Raspberry Pi OS • Re: Is There an Easy Way to Update SSD Systems to Latest...
Back up your data, install new system, copy back your data.....this is what I do. What about the OS configuration you may have changed and additional software you have installed?Nothing drastic, a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W crashes, the LED keeps blinking...
What is that python program doing?Statistics: Posted by neilgl — Wed Sep 03, 2025 6:27 pm
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: Question about PCIe switches
Anything is possible with PCIe but some configs are not getting prettier, or as you state, very sensible ones money-wise. The PCIe2x1 bus speed, even bumped up to unsupported PCIe3x1, is a substantial...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Restart web stream playback on loss of...
Hi,I'm using a Raspberry Pi Model 4B as an unattended audio player to play back a web stream. I have a bash script set to run at login which starts VLC in the background with the stream URL, so that...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: IOMMUs on Raspberry Pi 5 (device tree, quantity, and...
That looks about right to me.IOMMU4 (HVS) is used by Linux, but only when enabled by vc4-kms-v3dIOMMU0,1 are not initialized at all, except perhaps to disable them. In their reset state the IOMMUs are...
View ArticlePython • Re: Pi 5 with SparkFun Load Cell Amp
Pi GPIOs are 3.3V. VDD needs to be connected to 3.3V not 5V.PRO TIP: In many cases, you can just short VCC and VDD together. If your microcontroller uses 3.3V logic however, you'll want to connect VCC...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: network issues/questions for LWIP and Wiznet
One thing worth doing, and it seems you may have done this already, is testing with a WIZNet-W5500-EVB-Pico, and a Pico W, 2W, or similar, so you can better determine if it's an issue of MicroPython...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: rpi-imager says a newer version is available
Indeed. But for some reason, 1.9.6 is not available via apt, but it is available on the rpi-imager GitHub, as I mentioned above:EDIT: whoops...when I saw craigevil's note I went back and looked at my...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Pi Zero 2W
I have searched around and I am getting conflicting reports about which Pis support 5G. Some r5eports say the Zero 2W supports 5G, others not. Which Raspberry Pis do support 5G? I need to buy a...
View ArticlePython • Re: Problems with venv
The comment about rc.local shows that you don't have much experience. It hasn't been used for more than 10 years, and anyone who still uses it is doing it wrong. It's a relic from a bygone era when...
View ArticleCompute Module • Re: USB C on a PCB hosting CM5
You should provide space for an EDID EEPROM and a 0-ohm bridge for Hot Plug Detect.https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/24lcs22aThe Pi thinks that a display is connected and provides the display...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Difference between RPI5 (4gb ram) and RPI4b (8gb ram)
The Pi 5 is obviously much faster, surely you can compare the specs for yourself? As for the memory size, I find that 2gb is adequate for most things. The Pi 5 requires a beefier power supply though,...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Adding Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ & IQaudio...
Working without issues on Pi5. Only Pi5 will allow you to use M.2 HAT.Statistics: Posted by aBUGSworstnightmare — Thu Sep 04, 2025 5:24 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry pi-5 Hardware failure
as I suspected thanks for confirmingStatistics: Posted by Biggiebig — Thu Sep 04, 2025 5:34 pm
View ArticleCamera board • Re: CSI adaptors stop Pi Zero 2 from booting
viewtopic.php?p=2295059&hilit=csi+over+hdmi#p2295059https://www.arducam.com/arducam-csi-hdm ... 1-set.htmlStatistics: Posted by aBUGSworstnightmare — Thu Sep 04, 2025 5:40 pm
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Cellular internet for the Pi
I'm working on a project that requires the Pi to have independent internet access via the cellular network and I'm hoping to get some suggestions here. You can get hats and USB dongles for this but...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Adaption of 5V power supply, connected to 2 AVRs, 1...
Which LM317 are you using?Statistics: Posted by Pi5_User — Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:01 pm
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Need to mount encrypted external drives to specific mount point
I tackled the problem but with a different solution.i modified my script to find the right harddrive from UUID and create a device of my choosing.Code: sudo cryptsetup luksOpen "$(blkid --uuid...
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