Automation, sensing and robotics • gpiozero eats CPU
Bit of a lament. I'm working on a simple project that needs a button and an LED. I want it to run on any Pi, so ideally I should be using gpiozero (or gpiod). I don't actually have a Pi 5, so I could...
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Beginners • RPI 5 & flight controllers
Hi all,I'm new to all this and I have a question regarding a project I want to undertake.Basically I' planning to build an underwater drone using an RPI 5. I was looking for a flight controller type...
View ArticleBeginners • How to use Raspberry Pi for Industrial Automation RTOS
Hello there!I'm new to raspberry Pi and willing to start Embedded journey with it.Need your help me to understand,1. I wish to use raspberry pi instead of PLC in industrial automation with Real Time...
View ArticleAdvanced users • How to fix "xhost: unable to open display...
I'm executing a script as a service. When I'm executing this part :Code: sudo setterm --powerdown 0 --powersave off -blank >> /var/log/xrandr_debug.logsudo xset s off >>...
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Beginners • Boot Menu Duplications
Hello everyone @ the forums i was checking the new boot menu screeni see duplications during the process is there any actual reason or its a bug?thanksStatistics: Posted by acheron_oscura — Mon Feb...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac • Installing Debian versus Raspberry Pi...
As others have pointed out, Raspberry Pi Desktop hasn't been updated in a while and some have recommended installing Debian instead. The installation process for Debian on a PC seems to be identical...
View ArticleGraphics, sound and multimedia • VLC Randomly Stopping RPI3
Hey all,So I have a RPI 3 and I'm having it on startup run VLC media player directed at a folder that has a bunch of video files in it in various subfolders, the idea for me is that it'll go through...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Disabling wifi and bluetooh on raspberry pi 5 is...
When disabling the wifi and bluetooth in raspberry pi 5 with the belowdtoverlay=disable-wifidtoverlay=btin /boot/config.txt causes the device to crash intermittently.Has anyone encountered the...
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Automation, sensing and robotics • Help for electromagnetism raspberry pico...
So I am trying to make a speedometer for my motorbike.The concept is simple : I have an hall effect sensor, a magnet on my wheel and a screen on my pico that shows the speed every second. When the...
View ArticleCamera board • Possible to run rpicamera2 QT preview full-screen?
I'm working on a project where the pi & camera are (mostly) headless, with just a 320x480 TFT for display. The preview is running QT, as the QtGL preview doesn't work with my display, and neither...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • LVM instability
On my LAN I have a nest of 6 RPi of varying ages some of which have USB connected external hard drives.One of these devices solicits, and stores backups from the other devices on a scheduled basis.The...
View ArticleOff topic discussion • HELP!!! I Can’t update or Download anything.
I can't download or update anything. The time/date is correct, the internet connection is strong, but nothing seems to be working. I tried downloading Minecraft Java edition about a week before the...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Performance increase with LLMs running in Ollama by...
I'm running Llama3.2:3b in Ollama on a Pi 5 8GB. It's running well, but responses to inputs take anywhere from 6 to 50 seconds depending on the length of the input and the content memory fed to the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • UAC2 starts, but doesn't appear on connected devices (piCore)
I have a bare piCore installation with USB and sound drivers copied from the rpi kernel. My end goal is a stereo that plays back audio passed to it through the USB interface out of a HiFiBerry...
View ArticleGeneral • Pico 2 synchronising multiple PIO SMs
Hi,I am using a Pico 2 to prototype a pulse train generator. This involves 1 PIO SM to wait for an external trigger pulse which then triggers another PIO SM write to external AD9708 DAC at 30MHz to...
View ArticleGeneral • RP2350B Pico-PIO-USB abnormality
Hello, has anyone tested https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/Pico- ... /tree/main with RP2350B? I used pins 28 and 29 for testing and could not achieve USB communication normally, but RP2350A is...
View ArticleCompute Module • CM5 + IO5 board + PI Cam V3 -> USB Gadget Mode UVC
Hi,I'm wondering if anyone has success streaming videos through USB gadget mode?I tried using the UVC-Gadget repo which works for CM4 + Pi CAM v3, but I got the following errors on CM5:With...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Problem Booting up for the first time
Hi everyone,I'm trying to set up my Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) but I'm facing boot issues. When I power it on, I see the following messages:"Failed to open device: 'sdcard'""SD card not detected""MSD error...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • vlc error
hi all, im sure there is an easy fix for this but in my inexperience it eludes me. im using a ras pi 5 and running an os from bare boat necessities. ive been using this hooked to a 24 in monitor and...
View ArticleGeneral • PIO PWM 0 Duty != 0
I'm having a problem with PWM implemented in the PIO whereby when I set the Duty to 0 there is still a very brief pulse (of a few nS / 1 clk cycle).I cant see how this happens but commenting out the...
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