Raspberry Pi OS • KDE plasma freezes to a standstill on boot
What am I doing wrong? I downloaded kde plasma (Wayland) for my Pi OS which booted fine the first few times. Now when I try to boot it gets to the boot screen and then just stops dead. I can't even...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Zero2W - ethernet gadget speed versus wifi speed?
Does anyone have any data (or reasonable back of the envelope estimates) as to the relative speed of a Zero2W as an ethernet gadget - plugged into a modern Mac via a 5gbps hub - versus its own wifi? I...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Touchscreen Dashboard Kiosk... Impossible?
Hello everyone! I'm trying to create a kiosk for my home assistant dashboard. I'm using a raspberry pi 4b 2gb.I tried with Raspberry Pi OS, but its touchscreen integration is quite underwhelming (also...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Rpi 5 Ethernet speed - iperf3
Using iperf3 this is what I get from the pi to a windows server. Is this good, average or bad. I've tried to find a reference page but failed.Code: mrg9999@RPI5-4:~ $ iperf3 -c 192.168.0.200Connecting...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Pi and multiple networks, should work, but isnt
Ok this should be super simple and it worked before bookworm. Now not so much.Simple rundown is as follows:pi 4B Wifi is DHCP and is the network with a valid intenet gateway. Ip of 192.168.254.X...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • PXE / Network Boot on CM4
Hi Everyone,I hope you are doing great. I am working on a set of CM4s for a project. I have extracted a running Raspbian Pi OS Lite (Bookworm), using ```dd``` from the first CM4 after making a few...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • PI-5 PCIE silly question's and hello
Hello, I'm Julian Davidson and an actual human. I know an awful lot about PC's, but little about PI's, having run a PI 4b for some time with Home Assistant (on a 1TB SATA drive) and some USB...
View ArticleSDK • Multiple targets using Pico VSCode extension
How can you specify different files to compile within the same project with the new Pico VSCode extension?So for example if I want to create a small program to test a function that prints out results....
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Request for help: RPi4B (2gb ram) not booting to SD card
I have my raspberry pi 4B set up with a 16gb SD card (sandisk) with Raspbian OS on it. The pi boots to the basic interface where it tries to either boot to USB or SD and gets to the SD card booting...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • SSD Compatibility
Im wondering what ssd's are compatible with the RPI5 board i do have active power led but no drive activity and the drive is formatted with Ubuntu 24.10, all 3 of my ssd'sare of different make and...
View ArticleSDK • Math functions not working with Pico VSCode extension
I've just installed the VSCode Pico extension and I'm trying to convert over a project that previously worked with the old style SDK interface. The code doesn't work! I've single stepped through it...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • PiZero2Ws headless: connecting ocassionally?
Howdy fellas, I couldn't find any help about this online so I've finally made an account to try to get some answers.I'm trying to get a camera module 2.1 setup on my zero2w for some surveillance, but...
View ArticleBare metal, Assembly language • USB MIDI Keyboard
HeyoThis is a continuation of the project I asked about in my previous post (viewtopic.php?t=378480). I got the audio and the display working fine, but I'm running into a problem with the USB MIDI...
View ArticleOther programming languages • Easy Lazarus Installation with deb-packages
The installation of Lazarus on the Raspberry Pi's is greatly simplified by the availability of deb packages.I have installed Lazarus 4.0 RC1 on Raspberry Pi 3, 4, 5 and Zero 2 with the three deb...
View ArticleGeneral • Enviro Grow (Pico W Aboard) connect to WiFi that requires username?
I was hoping someone could help as we're a bit stuck!We have a Enviro Grow (Pico W Aboard) which we're trying to set up but all of the available WiFi networks require username-based authentication (if...
View ArticleCamera board • Camera Module 3 Not Detected On Raspberry Pi 4
I have been trying to fix this for a while and even tried a new camera module, but whenever I run libcamera-hello --list-cameras, I get "No cameras detected". I do not know what to do. I have flashed...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Camera supported and detected but not working
Hello,I have a non-official night vision camera module for Raspberry Pi that I want to use for my project. It was working just fine before I changed its ribbon cable. When I tried the "vcgencmd...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Solution - using Cron to write to a CSV file
Well this unusual. I have a python program that writes its results to a CSV file, but which wouldn't do so when run via a Cron job. I was minutes away from giving up and asking for help when I...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • WaveShare Stepper Motor Hat (HRB8825) + RPI 5 GPIO Busy
Hello, I've just got a waveshare HRB8825 stepper motor HAT for my RPI 5. I've been trying to get their demo code running correctly but keep running into issues with motor 2 (GPIO busy).I've done some...
View ArticleBeginners • RPI5 to be used as a "normal" server.
some problems i found:HOW to avoid autologin, so it DO NOT start neither tty1 already with logged user 1000 [must give the username:password prompt ] neither start the GUI, but that one should start...
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