Thanks for the replies. Just to clarify when you say "you might get away with it", what is the worst that can happen if I don't get away with it? At the end of the copy process all files will be deleted so I can't see what could be corrupted. I'll implement unmounting, hopefully won't be too much of...

Hi All I want to setup a raspberry pi that I can leave powered on long term in my garage. I want to plug in usb drives and have the contents automatically moved to network storage. Reading the external storage documentation it seems that I need to setup each usb drive that I want to use ahead of tim...

Hi All I am just going through the learning process of setting up secure certificates for my raspberry pi. I've got it all working and I've not got a secure password protected website to control things at home when I am away. I am using certbot and letsencrypt for the certificate and for this I need...

Hi All At some point in the future I am planning on having a raspberry pi zero in every light switch in my house. That's going to be a lot of names and IP addresses to keep track of. I wrote an npm script that will make it super easy to find all the IP addresses of the raspberry Pis on your network....

OK, yes I was being stupid. Earthing pin 7 transitioned it from high to low. Earthing pin 13 (which is already low) had no effect.

Connecting pin 13 to 3v makes it high so figured that one out. Thanks for the help.

Hi All I am using this node package: https://github.com/JamesBarwell/rpi-gpio.js to read the state of the gpio pins. I have got it working using pin 7 fine (the pin that all the examples use) but I can't seem to get it to work with any other pins. I have tried pin 11 and 13 also. Is there something ...

ok... I solved it...

There's a difference between a 4.7K and a 4.7M resistor...

I did know this, I did electronics at school. I just misread the label...

Hi I followed this tutorial to get a temperature sensor connected to my pi: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-11-ds18b20-temperature-sensing/ds18b20 I am pretty sure that I followed it correctly and that I have it all wired up right but I am not seeing the sensor listed when I...

I've just got my Sense HAT after waiting about 2 months for it to be delivered from china and am VERY disappointing with the temperature accuracy. I think that it is probably reading temperature at around 10 degrees too high.

What a waste of time and money...

This is on a WiFi network.

I can't ping it when it becomes unresponsive.

The rest of the network is fine, I can still ping my other Pi (also on WiFi).

I am very new to linux so pretty green when it comes to this technology.

Thanks for the suggestion. On looking at syslog.1 I can't see anything untoward. There seems to just be a series of hourly cron jobs logged before the logs when I rebooted it.

Hi All I have a headless Raspberry Pi 3 that I can't connect a monitor or keyboard to. After a few days it becomes unresponsive and I can't SSH into it. The only thing that I can do is turn it off and back on again but when it starts up there is no way of telling what caused it to freeze. What can I...