Troubleshooting • Blurred text on menus and apps
I've recently setup my new Pi5 with the full 64bit raspian OS. I have a wide screen monitor and the resolution defaults to 3440x1440. On all programs that I open they appear blurred. I've set the...
View ArticleBeginners • Brand New Pi5 Will not boot
hi,brand new user - purchased a Pi5 with microsd cardDownloaded Raspberry P1 Imager 1.8.5 on mac, and installed latest Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit on card (3 times now)Set hostname, username and password...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • run vlc from crontab
surely someone has tried to run vlc video on startup and faced this issue? Yet countless posts online and no resolution that i coudl find. crontab:Code: @reboot DISPLAY=:0 cvlc --play-and-exit...
View ArticleAssistive technology and accessibility • MIPI CSI2 driver
Dear friends!If anyone has experience writing (adapting) a driver for Raspberry Pi 4The task is to receive a video stream and sound on a Raspberry Pi 4 B via the MIPI CSI2 interface. The signal is...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Pi5: Alternative Pin Function Assignments needed
Hello world;I need the list of Alternate Pin Function Assignments for the Pi 5. For the Pi 4 there is a list in "bcm2711-peripherals.pdf", but I assume there are changes for the Pi 5. UART1 (the...
View ArticleBeginners • RPi as Win RDP Client
RPi 3B v1.2Raspberry PI OS 2024-03-12 Legacy x64 no DesktopI'm triing use a RPi to create a Windows remote desktop client. My idea would be that the RPi when logging into the shell, runs rdesktop or...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • how to force USB devices re-check ?
dearsI have a USB gamepad that is not always detected at boot time, after 1 reboot out of 5, the device does not appear in /dev/input. If I unplug the device and plug it back in, then it suddenly...
View ArticlePython • GPIO and Buzzer activation
I'm working on a python code to make an access control by RFID and it is working very well. Now I have the final implementation with a buzzer to make a short sound when the RFID tag is detected. I...
View ArticleBeginners • Add desktops & xscreensaver
Just getting back into Raspbien again after being away.A couple apps I'm struggling with1. Raspbian seems to be stuck at just one desktop. obconf seems to not be able to add additional desktops.obconf...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Pi5 not recognising USB PS3 Eye
Is anybody able to shed any light on this problem?I was using an old PS3 Eye as a USB microphone for a voice recognition project running on a Pi 5. It was running fine, until it didn't. I had needed...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • PI Zero W heats up soon
After inserting the SD card into my PI Zero W and turning it on, it gets very hot within about 40 seconds.And the PI freezes leaving the following message.Code: Starting Modem Manager...Starting...
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Troubleshooting • No wifi or HDMI after soldering to gpio pins - Raspberry pi...
I have a raspberry pi zero w, and I wanted to try to make a keyboard with it. Now this was my first attempt so I probably did things in a bad way, but after soldering the gpio pins to board and then...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • "who" command displays a large # instead of...
Howdy all,Been a Raspberry Pi user for 4 or 5 years now, and ran into this strange issue.I have 2 AMD systems and 2 RPI-4B systems, all running Debian Bookworm.AMD' systems are 12.5 with Kernel":...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • GUIDE: Keyboard-centric configuration of RPiOS/WayfireWM
Raspberry Pi OS is now underpinned by Wayland and WayfireWM. The result is a smooth DE, extremely light on system resources, typically requiring <2Gb ram. Further configuration can add a lot of...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Restart r-pi on UPS after shutdown
Hello,I have a simple use case but maybe I miss something....I have a r-pi 4 and UPS the pipower-v2. basically I using the r-pi to output production on my machine. (node red - influx- grafana) when...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Rpi5 - Solid red light, no booting
Hello, In the context of a robotic project, we recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 5. This one worked fine for about a month, althought it sometimes turned to a red led in mid utilisation (due to a...
View ArticleCamera board • ov9281 stopped working P4 B => Pi5 migration
Hi, I had a software working with a 200fps OV9281 on i2c on Pi4 B, the board blew up so I bought a Pi5. The camera is not registered properly by libcam now.Code: uname -aLinux raspberrypi...
View ArticleJava • Installing JDK on PI
Hi AllNew to all this and I'm trying to install Open JDK 17, I have tried this using UI, so heading to add/remove programs, searching Open JDK and selecting all the checkboxes against all the JDK 17...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Raspberry Pi 5 8GB wont boot from SD card
I'm having trouble booting my New Raspberry pi 5 from SD card. When I try to boot it from SD card, it gives this error. failed to open SD card "(CMD 810010 status 0)" It will boot from USB and works...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Working example of a button with the...
For some reason (possibly because it doesn't exist) I cannot find a functional example of working button code using the python implementation of the gpiod api, and I cannot seem to get it to work...
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