I've been working the last few months on a homebrew version of Alexa for my home. I'm currently installing a Raspberry Pi 3 b+ with a respeaker in every room and intended to put in Pyle bluetooth speakers. Right now, a Pi runs hotword detection on all audio it receives from the respeaker and passes ...

So, another quick question. This is a VNC question but related to how it's implemented in Jessie. I'm trying to modify the default geometry of the realVNC server and, for the life of me, can't get it to work. I've tried creating a new config file in /etc/vnc as well as modifying the existing one. No...

So, I'm currently working on a robot that uses stepper motors but I also require it to communicate via RF with an Arduino nano. As of right now, I am currently using the Adafruit motor hat to drive the two steppers. The issue I'm running into is that I have this hat sitting on my GPIO pins and I als...

fruitoftheloom wrote:
The last release was 23/09/2016 and Raspbian Jessie has regular updates;

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

That ended up being exactly what the problem was. Thank you!

sconemad wrote:

Metasyntactic wrote: Would REALLY appreciate any advice people have.

Have you done a package update recently? This sounds a lot like an issue that was fixed just after the raspbian pixel release.

I installed Jessie yesterday, would the package update not be included in the recent build?

So, I updated from Wheezy to Jessie and I was really excited to see that it already had VNC baked in to the distro image. That said, I've been having a lot of issues with getting it to work properly. I've enabled VNC in RPI configuration but I find that it's not actually running on start and I'm not...

By the way, this will help you with your door locks.
http://www.instructables.com/id/RFID-Ca ... nlock-v10/

I'm going to be placing a 7 inch screen where the controls currently are as an inboard interface (I hope to later use the pi to control the car computer for quick select of presets for fuel efficiency) and so I'm going to recess the controls and attach position motors so that I don't need to deal w...

I think my first thing to check would be the voltage and amperage your glove box light draws. Couldn't even begin to tell you if it's enough or stable enough to power a PI but it's certainly an idea. Out of curiosity, why go to the trouble of controlling the heat controls with motors? I mean, it sou...

Are you looking to actually run ASK on a pi? I've seen a number of people ( https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge ) use a R Pi to emulate a Phillips Hue Bridge and communicate with their Echo. They were mostly doing things like home automation but I also saw a number of robotics applicat...

ghans wrote:USB-based 3G (2G ?) dongles are quite-power hungry but still the easiest and cheapest solution AFAIK.

ghans

Thanks, I'd wondered about dongles. I had heard a couple complain about using them with the pi and was looking at adafruit's FONA but I'm all for cheap and easy.

So, I've been working on a project to connect my quadcopter's ardupilot with a raspberry pi via MAVlink. The ardupilot is a great little controller with extensive autopilot features already programmed in but I'd like to use a raspberry pi to be able to gather sensor data as well as receive GPS waypo...

There is actually pretty good documentation on how to do this. http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/raspberry-pi-via-mavlink/ I would like to know how this is going? I'm looking at doing something similar. I want the raspberry pi to receive GPS coordinates via GSM and pass them through MAVLINK to the ardup...