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General discussion • Need help sourcing a screen for my project
hello there, recently i have found an old TomTom GPS in my home, i have searched it up to find that it is a tomtom one 3rd edition. i have been planning to retrofit it with a new screen and a...
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Beginners • pigpiod: System does not appear to be a raspberry pi
Hi, I have purchased a 5th gen (8GB version).Manually installed Raspberry Pi OS with desktop (64-bit).Everything seem to work well except the Remote GPIO Code: root@raspberrypi:~# uname -aLinux...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • Gluqlo/Fliqlo for Bookworm
I am currently using a Pi 4 running Buster and the official 7" touchscreen in a case as a clock running xscreensaver and the Gluqlo screensaver.I would like to upgrade to Bookworm, however Bookworm...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • RPi5 M.2 boot disk going offline - diagnostic help requested
I have a Pi 5 with a GeeekPi M.2 HAT and a Crucial P3 Plus 2TB M.2 card, powered from a Raspberry Pi 27W USB-C power supply. I was able to register the SSD's serial number on Crucial's web site, so I...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Audio from HDMI
Kind of disappointed that my upgrade to a Pi 5 did not include a headphone jack. So I bought an HDMI audio extractor. Supposed to be able to pass 4k at 60Hz. The audio quality was not as good as the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Pi5 not booting
I have read the sticky. The status led blinks 4 long - 5 short (Fatal firmware error).I do not get any output when plugging an hdmi in, with or without an sd card.I tried wiring the uart in the gpio...
View ArticlePython • remove jitter from servo?
I have some python code that works but the servo is way to jittery for my usecase, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong tho. can anywone helpCode: from gpiozero import AngularServofrom time import...
View ArticleAdvanced users • SSH fails on Pi5-8GB with USB -SSD Boot
Image created with latest Pi imager and SSH is enabled - Pi Connect works finebut SSH always says bad password regardless of what I reset it to manually.Am using a 47W power charger from Canakit with...
View ArticleGeneral • Problen with interrupt in assembly riscv on pico2
I'm trying to program a usb connection in riscv assembler on the pico2 starting from the example dev_lowlevel.c and of course without using the SDK.In this example, we don't see where the interrupt...
View ArticleGeneral • The Camberwell Parrot - Pico-based Eurorack clockable delay
A few months back I decided it was about time I did something useful with the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, so I set out to design a clockable audio delay in Eurorack format.Along the way I hit...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Unknown device with RM 1 detected by lsblk even there is...
I'm busy testing next raspiBackup release 0.7.0 and use RaspianOS lite for this. Some additional partitions are also created to test a new feature.Code: pi@raspberrypi-bookworm64-lite-beta:~ $...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Case for Pi 5 with lots of room!
I am trying to outfit my new Pi 5 with BOTH an SSD and a DAC hat. I have already purchased a geekworm case with bottom mounted SSD, and there is reportedly room for active cooling. Does anyone know of...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Canakit Pi 5 w/ SSD Kit and heat
I recently upgraded to an RPi 5 8GB. It's a Canakit bundle with the black case. I then upgraded it with the official Raspberry Pi SSD Kit, 256GB in my case. This includes a vertical case extension...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • New Northern Meet Up / Computer Show
Hi,We're launching a new computer show in Warrington England which will have plenty of Raspberry Pi based projects and hardware on show. It's on March 29th 2025. For more information please check out...
View ArticleAdvanced users • scaling factor (-s) in grim, or another way to get a thumbnail?
I'm trying to get thumbnails out of grim. Essentially, the equivalent of scrot's -t, though I figure I will have to do TWO calls to grim to get both a full-sized image and a thumbnail, which I could...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • How to achieve this
This is an expert of my assignment. I am not very sure about what does this sentence mean and how to achieve this. Accept a command line argument write to the file with: the time tab (\t in the print...
View ArticleOther projects • Using Raspberry Pi and Tasker for home security (and other...
I've been using a couple of Raspberry Pi for home security for a short while and I'm wondering if anyone else has incorporated Tasker (Android app) in their home security project. AutoRemote and Join...
View ArticleBeginners • Why is power consumption so high?
I'm not a hardware person, so there is probably a really good explanation, but why does Pi5 use so much more power than a much more powerful notebook computer?I can recharge a notebook or run it from...
View ArticleGaming • Can I run Ubuntu 18 games on my Pi 4?
I came across an old vintage PC game called "The 13th Doll" on the internet. Someone has updated it to run on Ubuntu 18 Linux. Can it run on my Raspberry Pi 4 ?Bob D.Statistics: Posted by bobbymg —...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Raspberry Pi 5 4K doesn't work on specific TV
I was wondering if the community could assist me with troubleshooting my Pi 5 not playing nice with an Amazon Fire TV (TCL 55Q650F). The TV will only operate at 1080 with the Pi attached, but its...
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