General discussion • Re: Powering a RPI using a Car Battery.
Or go the other way.What is you weather station doing.If nothing actually computer intensive and just a vane, bucket, temp etc then a move to a PiPico2 or other RP2350 with a built in charger circuit...
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Troubleshooting • missing X to close windows
hi for some reason today the x's are missing from the file windows etc as well as the minimize icons , any help would be great thanksmartinsorry should have mentioned its a pi 4Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Is PineBoards.io no more? Where to go for RPi5...
A Pi Hut post suggests Pineboards closed around May 2025 -This blog post is a backup from the now-unavailable Pineboards Hat AI! documentation page. We have created this post to ensure this...
View ArticleGeneral • Two flash memories within Quad SPI in RP2350 / RP2040
I try to connect two flash memories within QuadSPI (QSPI) in rp2350 (or rp2040). Could both memories work at the same time and I change between them using chip select? However in one of them, the...
View ArticlePython • Re: error: externally-managed-environment
There is NO need to activate the environmentI would suggest that depends on what you are doing, what you expect to work, and how much pain you are prepared to endure.If not activating the virtual...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Best way to Back up Pi OS .img and cloning.
dd copies the entire drive including all empty space. It's also unreliable when the source has any of its partitions mounted.The SD card copier tool in RPiOS can copy a running system to new media....
View ArticleOther • Re: Windows on Pi and ham radio
I'd say maybe. Depends on the Windows software and how tied to the hardware it is.As for performance, ARM Windows11 in a KVM (https://github.com/Botspot/bvm) emulated x86 code was 7 or 8 times slower...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: RP235X OTP Bootloader
Probably have to use old school assembly and/or simple C, I remember ZX Spectrum ROM...Regarding UART boot, it might be possible to do only UART speed init in OTP Boot, then jump in Boot ROM (skipping...
View ArticleNetworking and servers • Re: eSATA port multipliers and Raspberry Pi 5?
You mean apart from the obvious (A USB3 to eSATA adapter that supports port multipliers)?The Pi5 has an exposed PCIe lane. Add an (e)SATA card on that.It's a non standard form factor so you can't just...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Help: SD Card from Pi Zero W Won’t Boot on Pi 3 A+
As for the symptoms, the reason I didn’t elaborate initially is because there really aren’t many and i have no clue what's really going on with it:The Pi powers on, but there’s no video output at...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Automatic backup whole RPI5 system to NAS server
cron and rsync.Details depend on the sort of backup you want and the sort of restore you want to do.Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Sun Jul 06, 2025 12:49 pm
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • RaspberryPi Menu
My RaspberryPi Menu (the one with the Raspberry symbol) on Bullseye now only shows 3 entries.I don't know how.This make it incredibly difficult to select an item.How can I adjust the height?It doesn't...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Tracking person by camera
Here's an example...Uses Pi5, Hailo, Pan and Tilt https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pan- ... 2408353287tested with Pi v2 cameraIt will return the camera to its centre position if it fails to detect...
View ArticleSDK • Re: DMA with PIO working oddly on RP2350B
What do you mean by "a global array on the stack"? A global array (initialized) goes in the '.data' memory segment, or uninitialized in '.bss'.Right, I guess I meant to say it goes in the .data memory...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Realtek RTL8812BU
FWIW the current update -- for Raspberry Pi 4's anyway -- again breaks the Realtek driver I am using (RTL8852AU) -- figuring based on the above comment of "Realtek kept supplying different kernel...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Latest Chromuim Browser update has broken RPi500 video...
Thank you. I can confirm this has fixed it.Statistics: Posted by philc43 — Mon Jul 07, 2025 1:22 pm
View ArticleGeneral • ampy transfers from pico loses bytes
If I copy files from pico to windows using ampy over USB, files < 100kb transfer OK. Files >150kb drop bytes, and the copied file is smaller than the file on the pico. The size of the damaged...
View ArticleWanted • Re: Outdoor waterproof Solar Raspberry Pi
If you want to accomodate the Raspberry Pi, 4G module and battery, everything in one single enclosure, then I think you have to design and print the enclosure by yourself. Waterproof Raspberry pi...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: First boot not working properly in a old hardware (Pi 3...
Are you sure it is a Pi3? I used Imager to write Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) Bookworm Lite to a microSD card and booted a Pi3 from it - all fine.Code: cat...
View ArticleBeta testing • Re: Updating to trixie
Get the following trying to upgrade 32bit Bookworm:Code: pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt full-upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" --purge --auto-remove...
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