SDK • Re: prevent "Downloading Picotool"
@hippy Great ideas for command line users!@will-v-pi Good point! I am certainly going to ensure my code works with the default SDK extension. I might even have to fire up a Windows box to test...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Push button, signal to another Pi in the same network
Maybe MQTT on each pi, one publishes a "topic" when button pressed; the other "subscribes" to that topic and when received it rings the bell.Python scripts can be used on both, uisng paho mqtt...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: New idea for dryer monitor
Good ideas. How about a photo transistor looking at the "ON" LED of the dryer?Statistics: Posted by neilgl — Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:36 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Raspberry Pi Imager for ARM processor.
Er, as it says on that websiteCode: To install on Raspberry Pi OS, typesudo apt install rpi-imagerin a Terminal window.That is ARM of course.Statistics: Posted by neilgl — Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:38 pm
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Could PyBricks be up and running on BuildHAT..
open sourcing the Lego control firmwareThis was the minimum I was looking for. You could at least submit patches and lobby for them, even if you couldn't build your own. Hachi bypass loader could...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: SSH Not Working Correctly
How are you setting the password?Statistics: Posted by pidd — Tue Dec 10, 2024 6:08 pm
View ArticleSDK • Re: PIO PWM Input - Pulse Width Measurement
// slow the clock down to 1 Mhz sm_config_set_clkdiv(&c, 125.0); // set the clock divider so clock runs at 1 MHzFirst of all try a higher clock, that's the clock at which PIO instructions run, not...
View ArticleGraphics programming • Re: 7" Display 2 and rotating content using DRM
I've dug out the datasheet.For 24-bpp (which is supported only for non-transposed raster images), the destination pointer must be 4-bytealigned, and the destination rectangle must be a multiple of 4...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi 5 LED glows solid green and M.2 AI Hat glows solid...
Ok so the issue turned out to be the static IP address I set on the eth0 network interface. When trying to install software on the system headless I had to set a static IP address because for some...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 400 and 500 • Re: Pi 500 forum?
So is it alright to create a new post now or should I wait? I had a few questions on using the device, but most of it will probably be related to software and not hardware. Software issues related to...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Multiple audio outputs
A couple of options.- If you only need to ever play one at a time, then get one amplifier and connect the output to a relay board (eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yizhet-Channel ... B07MJF9Z4K) that...
View ArticleCamera board • Re: External Camera Support
That board (along with a number of others) use the Toshiba TC358743 chip for HDMI to CSI2.The Waveshare board only has the 15pin connector and hence 2 data lanes, so it will be limited on max...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Simple light level detector using...
Back again,The above tests were done using an RPi4B device where I used GPIO18 on pin 12 on the header and it worked just fine.So I removed the circuitry from the RPi4B and attached it to the RPiZeroW...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Connect • Re: Connect service fails to start with out of memory...
Which Pi is it running on and which OS (Bookworm 64-bit or other)?Statistics: Posted by neilgl — Wed Dec 11, 2024 6:15 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Wi-Fi no longer connecting
The Pi5 connects but won't authenticate when located upstairs from the Wi-Fi AP (Nokia FastMile 5G Gateway 3.2. Model: 5G15-12W-A).When the Pi5 is downstairs on the same level, the Pi5 connects and...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: LED turned on by one script, need "reset" button to...
I've just done something similar, but after receiving a mosquitto message. Try this (not tested)Code: from gpiozero import LEDimport timefrom time import sleeppink = LED(20)pink.on()button =...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Connecting a Pi Pico directly to the internet with SIM modules
It is kinda the same here. Future will tell if 2030 will be 2G's end. SIM7020 is a breeze of the future NB-IoT. Instead of buying SIM800L just to play with it, I have Sony Ericsson phones instead....
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Screenshot gnome version fails
Thank you for the contribution which progressed the understanding.Good to know re Gnome incompatibility with Pi5 Wayland.Yes, I had read the other Pi forum posts a while ago and used grim which had...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: A Snek port for a Pico ?
Yay!Code: pi@Pi4B:~/mypico/snek/ports/feather-cmake/build $ make[ 1%] Built target bs2_default[ 3%] Built target bs2_default_library[ 4%] Building C object...
View ArticleDevice Tree • Re: Configuring MCP2518FD on SPI3 of CM4makes sense
Thank you so much!! Worked perfectly first time. KR, AndyStatistics: Posted by AndyGPS — Thu Dec 12, 2024 5:15 pm
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