Thanks guys, yes it was the cable being the wrong way around - which i have done on 2 other Pi's I have connected my Pi Camera to!! You think I would have learned which way round it goes by now!! Anyway ran the raspistill command and then FTP'd it off, so it is definitely working. Next up, install D...

I bought the Zero W and the official case, you know the one with read base and 3 different tops. Also comes with the mini camera cable. Can anyone show me how to put together the Pi Zero W in the white case with the camera hole and have it hooked up with the supplied short camera cable. Because I ca...

Yes, thanks Dave, I did perform an update just the other day and I am all up to date.

If you look here https://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/api/#joystick you will see this code: from sense_hat import SenseHat from time import sleep sense = SenseHat() event = sense.stick.wait_for_event() print("The joystick was {} {}".format(event.action, event.direction)) sleep(0.1) event = sense.stick...

Well with a wee bit of trial and error I have my Sense Hat fitted and I can access the pins I need for the Raspberry Pi - Amazon Alexa project. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302245/sh_alexa.jpg Here I am using: Pin 39 for Ground Pin 38 (GPIO20) for + coming off the button Pin 36 (GPIO16) for t...

That was very helpful, I have installed extended headers to make the GPIO pins available above the installed Sense Hat. However I still think it is an unanswered question as to what GPIO pins are available (unused by the Sense Hat). According to http://pinout.xyz/pinout/sense_hat only pins 3 & 5 are...

I am still a little unsure after reading this thread. Can you or can you not access GPIO pins that are not used by the Sense Hat, and if so does anyone have a list of the free pins?

After upgrading to Jessie, I am getting halted at reboot -can't get passed this. Anyone know how to fix?

Just created a new SD Card to boot Jessie and am having some issue with it. For a start - where is the WiFi Config app? I can't find it and was wanting to setup my WiFi dongle. Second, I have had the web browser crash out on me three times now - never had that once with my other two Pi's. Lastly I c...

I was looking at https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/latest-raspbian-update and thought, yes I'll have me some of that, but none of my sudo apt-get commands will work. First my sudo apt-get update gives me this ... Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy Release.gpg Hit http://archive.raspberrypi...

No, I am just running as the user pi.

My Pi works just fine on the command line, however if I startx I get this flickering screen with the trash can but no other icons to work with.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302245/corrupt.mp4

Same issue even if I remote into it with VNC which surprised me a bit.

Anyone have any ideas?

I use Raspbian and installed keyring for Python. On first use I set a username and password for an account I use using keyring.set_password and on exit from Python I was asked to set a password for the default system keyring. I entered a password, but it is different from my pi login password. There...