General discussion • Can RPi 4 act as Host and Peripheral at the same time...
I have been researching the RPi 4's USB ports and have not been able to find a definitive answer before going out to purchase, so I figured I would ask those who have tried to do something similar. My...
View ArticleDevice Tree • BeagleBone style GPIO pin management
Now that we have pinctrl, we can do what I call BeagleBone Style GPIO pin management, where a single device tree overlay BB-GPIO.dtbo enables all of the hardware subsystems without configuring any of...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • RSPI 4B + POE HAT + RFID + LED
Hi all,I am pretty new and would be very greatfull for some help. I searched various combinations of my Problem on google and the forum search and wasn´t successfull. Please help to point me in the...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Have No Clue
I have following this to use it. https://blog.ip2location.com/knowledge- ... ing-ipset/ . However, I'm at one part that I have tried myself for over an hour looking for and can't seem to find it....
View ArticleTroubleshooting • SSH, nextcloud stopping working after plugging a external HDD
i'm having an issue where when i plug in an external HDD (1TB 2.5") SHH and nextcloud stops(apache too maybe) working.the HDD has it's on power source so it's not draining too much from the pi, and...
View ArticleGraphics programming • How to configure Rpi5 Vulcan heap size?
I'm trying to get VkFFT to run on an 4GiB Rpi5 and am having a call to VkAllocateMemory fail when trying to allocate a 1GiB buffer.Using vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2 I see that on my Rpi5 that...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • pi 5 nvme case options?
Hi.I want to buy a pi 5 with an nvme drive board that will fit in a nice case. I don't want to use the official case as i don't like it.The case must be premium looking and cover the whole pi leaving...
View ArticleGeneral • Can you add / change files on a pico w over WiFi?
Hi.I am building a controller for my hall lights (which are a single strip of addressable leds around the edge) using a pico w. The controller needs to turn on the lights twice a day but with the...
View ArticleCamera board • Libcamerify use
I could not find much information on libcamerify command use, so I'm asking here.I want a program(zoneminder) to use my rpi camera module v2 (noir) as an input. I could just stream over network and...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Generated initramfs_2712 requires grep, but does not include it
The https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspi ... ite.img.xz image contains in »/boot» the files «initramfs8» and «initramfs_2712». These are zstd compressed cpio files. Each of the files contains the...
View ArticleBeginners • touchscreen not responding to touch
Hello, I have a raspberry pi 4 and the touch screen does not respond to touch,. I used the smarti pi case and its been a pain. The raspberry pi, did not fully update and don't know why and don't know...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • RPi4 Black Screen with Mouse Pointer
I've connected my RPi4 to a UHD TV and made some changes, adding another user and setting the login prompt to appear after starting up.I am now left with a black screen and a mouse pointer, but no...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • How can we track system crash report
Hi,I, using raspiOS(latest version with KDE) in Pi5 device and Im observing frequent system crash. I need to understand why this is happening. Is there a way to track this?Crash scenario's>...
View ArticleAdvanced users • How to force Pi OS serial console to resolution other than...
How to force Pi OS serial console to resolution other than 24x80? We are developing a headless Pi OS profile, using the serial console, however we want to increase the text console resolution to...
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Beginners • Probs getting docker to pull images
Hi thereI did search this topic and couldnt find anything usefulI installed docker using curl, and that seems to work ok, but when try to pull packages from docker I wind up with the following error...
View ArticleBeginners • New User
Ok, Ive got the pi5, have played with pi4's. I'm getting better I think.I keep wanting to try ubuntu, it looks neat maybe runs better?I keep coming back to my bookworm, can run it headless and remote...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Issue when trying to flash CM4
Hi all!I recently bought a [CM4][https://www.waveshare.com/compute-modul ... ?sku=20391] and a [board for that][https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/Compute_ ... E_4G_Board]. I want to flash it in order to...
View ArticleGeneral • Copy and paste example code
Why are there line numbers in the example code boxes in the documentation?When using the C SDK I use emacs and so can keystroke macro them away. I'm looking at micropython now and Thonny and that...
View ArticleUser groups and events • Peninsula Pi Party near Sydney Australia
https://petermoulding.com/peninsula_pi_partyHello Pi users in Australia. There are lots of Pi users on the Central Coast of Australia, between Sydney and Newcastle, based on the response when selling...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Putty not working on RPI4
Good day allGot my new RPI5 this week. Loaded the disk that I got from the supplier. I couldn,t get putty to work.Then I tried Libreoffce Calc and that wouldnt start either. So I created my own disk...
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