General • Re: Powering the Pico via a disassembled 5V wall adapter
In the UK every cable must be supplied by a fused circuit that is equal to or below the cable rating.Not sure that's relevant here. The circuit is fused, of course, since it's coming from my outdoor...
View ArticleC/C++ • Re: H264 Hardware Video encoding on RPi Zero 2 W ?
You can use any of the Raspberry Pi Camera Modules, depending on the resolution and features you want. Make sure it has the correct cable for the Pi Zero or Pi 5 (the Pi 5 uses the same Camera...
View ArticleOther projects • Re: Toastmasters Timer
Maybe a Pico w as an access point, control via WiFi on your phoneStatistics: Posted by gordon77 — Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:27 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Offline repo for RPi OS doesnt work
There's a few ways to check. The one I use, which uses the package manager isCode: dpkg --print-architecturewhich will show armhf or arm64.You've got "Debian" in your os-release file, which is used...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Raspberry Pi 5 GPIO power supply
Due to some reasons, I need to use a portable power bank, but I would like to avoid using TypeC power supply. Can I power the Raspberry Pi 5 through the GPIO interface Statistics: Posted by pluto186 —...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Setup WiFi ad-hoc network
Im working on a project that uses two rpi zero 2s running the latest version of raspberry pi os 64bit lite. Both pis need to communicate using UDP and this must be as reliable as possible. Since they...
View ArticleCamera board • Low FPS video capture through libcamerify
I am using RPi3B+ on 64bit Bookworm, libcamera latest compiled from source. Camera is IMX708 B0310 Arducam module.Code: $ uname -aLinux user 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.31-1+rpt1...
View ArticleCamera board • Re: Rapidly changing exposure and gain
Normally we find that we always queue up every request we can with new buffers, which means you can't queue another until one pops out. So it does tend to end up "one in, one out". But you should find...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: No 'New Posts' ?
This appears to be a change in behaviour in phpBB 3.3.12, see https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2654323 (and the code change in https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/e ......
View ArticleBeginners • Re: PI RAM amount
The usual OS--Linux--running on a Pi hasn't suffered from the extreme bloat that, for instance, MS Windows has. So the need for extreme amount of RAM just isn't there. In addition, there should be a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: GPIO interrupt in linux kernel module is not working
What number are you providing to gpio_to_irq / how are you getting the gpio_desc to pass to gpiod_to_irq?The use of global GPIO numbers has been deprecated in the kernel for a while, and since 6.3 has...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 GPIO power supply
Yes, use the 5v and ground pins. Use decent thickness wiring, solder on if possible as the Pi 5 has a fairly high current demand. Dupont connectors are not good enough.Statistics: Posted by jamesh —...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: AI Kit Necessity for YOLO Usage on Raspberry Pi 5
We've tested YoloV8s object detection demo. 120fps video input. 680*680Pi5 8GB without Hailo 2fps;Pi5 8GB with hailo PCIe gen2 41fps;Pi5 8GB with hailo PCIe gen3 82fps;CM4 4GB with hailo PCIe gen2...
View ArticleMicroPython • Re: Detecting PI Pico if powered via USB or GPIO pins
Yup ...Code: O VBUS O VSYS O 3V3OUT _ | | .-----. | | |---^---.---|>|---^---.---------------| REG |---^---------> 3V3 | |- | | `--.--' | |- `--> VBUS `--> VSYS | |_|---. Detect Reading |...
View ArticleInterfacing (DSI, CSI, I2C, etc.) • Re: RS-232 on Raspberry Pi 5
Can any of the GPIO pins be reconfigured to be CTS and RTS on the Pi5? I saw some threads mentioning it on Pi 4.No. If you need flow control then you need to use the appropriate pins for each UART....
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: RPI5 not booting
here's a 15 seconds video of the failing boot processhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acV9PjoYnHMone long, two short blinksStatistics: Posted by sxpert — Tue Jul 16, 2024 8:35 am
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • M.2 Hat+ pcb versions
I have an M.2 Hat+ with PCB version "4.3" marked in stencil on the back - and I've had issues with my KIOXIA Pcie NVME on it (works okay as storage, will not boot for me, though it works for some)Ive...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: labwc window switcher
window switcher ? ( alt+tab ?)like all things raspberry, they modify/fork to meet there needs, don't expect the docs to be correct.anything basic should workThis is precisely why I'm...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Unable to obtain driver for chrome.
Ok. That venv has not been created with system packages.The documentation tells us “ TIPPass the --system-site-packages flag before the folder name to preload all of the currently installed packages...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Bash $SECONDS not working on Pi 4
Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit OS?I can't reproduce this issue. I used this script that has a random sleep of between 20 and 139 secondsCode: #!/bin/bashASTART=$SECONDSecho "Starting with $ASTART...
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