General discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.
I was wondering if anyone had had this issue and if so how to resolve it. I have a Pi5, and have installed PINN, and multiple OS onto an M.2 NVME drive and all was working great.I messed something up...
View ArticleMedia centres • Re: Peppy Player Klee, 7" display
The Peppy Player dev wants queries to be posted in the dedicated Peppy Player thread.Statistics: Posted by trejan — Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:14 pm
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Samba Shares: How can i point the download path to another Pi.
So...First off you shouldn't need to set a password for root (on either client or server), and even if you have unless you have created a Samba user called root on the server doing so won't...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi 5 not working after update
I assume from the lack of response that this is not a commonly known problem. I will try installing it again.Statistics: Posted by tdenson — Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:18 pm
View ArticleMedia centres • Re: Peppy player
I have taken a perfectly good peppy player running the Marc edition and turned it into a brick by upgrading to Klee. the hardware is a pi3B+ with a 7" RP touchscreen using the headphone output to my...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: MQTT publish fomatted sensor reading
client.publish("sensor1",temperature_formatted()) omit the braces after temperature_formattedAnd, perhaps, omit the braces in temperature_formatted = ( f"{temperature:.1f}" )Side topic, I would add a...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Integrated Fan Controller
I already used the correct pwm fan, since it came off a laptop that could change the speed of the fan. It also worked with the raspi config in the performance options. For the config .txt, how should...
View ArticleCompute Module • Re: CM5 not booting anymore, bootloader cannot be reset
You will have to flash your CM5 to mass-storage-gadget mode by using usbboot https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot , then delete the content from the eMMC.From my point of view an eMMC compute module...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi + Touch Screen 1 + 5V5A power supply cant deliver 5V5A?
Why can't you power the V1 screen from GPIO (5V, GND, don't (!) connect the I2C interface to GPIO)? No need for freeky splitter cable (which is afaik not allowed by USB-C spec).Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • cage fails to run due to missing XDG_RUNTIME_DIR...
I'm trying to run my GUI app using cage on a raspberry pi 4 b+ using raspberry pi os lite 64-bit and it does not run because of a missing XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable.I can in theory make a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: cage fails to run due to missing XDG_RUNTIME_DIR...
Do you actually have an X server (or X Wayland and a wayland desktop) installed on your lite OS?If you don't, setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't going to help.Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Sat Apr 19,...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Get rid of modern BootROM
The Raspis modern "BootROM" is one step forward, many steps back - change my mind.I used hundreds of Raspis for fun and profit. But BootROM is no fun nor profit for me.It is not a ROM anymore, but can...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Error during apt upgrade [Bookworm]
You should always use apt full-upgradeCan we please dispel this superstition? The only difference between upgrade and full-upgrade is that upgrade will not uninstall any packages to install others....
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Get rid of modern BootROM
Not sure what you mean by this, unlike other systems nothing is automagically updated unless you tell your Pi to do so.Not advised but if you have a problem with updates, simples. Don't update.I...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: SPI write from Slave device
Not exactly... read the other modes as well (next page):4.4.3.13. Motorola SPI Format with SPO=1, SPH=1For continuous back-to-back transmissions, the SSPFSSOUT pin remains in its active-LOW state,...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: latest chromium issues (mostly solved)
my chromium said ublock is disabled, and recommended removing it, which i did.it is installed on Firefox, and working.thats something to look in to....no matter, the full screen issue is resolved,...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: updates is faulty
Now from the "Terminal" I am doing a "sudo apt update" instead of doing a reboot, about the time updates normally happened (like round about 7pm GMT) , I just checked a few minutes ago and got 4...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: latest chromium issues
raspberry pre-installs adblock on the browsersit's ublockIs that 'uBlock Origin' which Chrome and Chromium auto-disables these days or some other 'uBlock' ?Statistics: Posted by hippy — Sun Apr 20,...
View ArticleBeginners • Unable to see desktop GUI?
Hi there,Using Raspberry Pi imager I created a new Raspbian OS on a 32GB SD card using the (twice) recommended 64-bit Bookworm with Desktop install.Pi was able to boot and I can access via SSH from my...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Unable to see desktop GUI?
does XRDP use Xwindows?if so, it wont work. The latest PI-OS switched to a new compositor.X-windows based apps will not work unless you switch back to X using raspi-config.I use the RealVNC viewer, as...
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