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- Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:26 am
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: RPI 4, no red LED
- Replies: 0
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RPI 4, no red LED
Superficially, my Raspberry Pi 4 seems to be running normal. But: - the green LED flashes way less than what I experience with other Pis (e.g. when there's definite write activity it does not flash), - the red LED stays off all the time, - there are no underpower warnings, but - a USB DVB-T dongle w...
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
(that's what hacking is all about). And I could not stop myself from hacking. Thank you for your code. I challenged myself to continue with my pythonic approach and hacked together two simple scripts: simpletouch.py can be used to toggle the screen off and on by touch. There is no specific region w...
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
Dougie, you are interrupting my python eventures. : )
The program does exactly what I need. It may need some milliseconds for debouncing but that's not an issue. Thank you for your help!
The program does exactly what I need. It may need some milliseconds for debouncing but that's not an issue. Thank you for your help!
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 7:11 pm
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
Looks promising: > pip3 install evdev [snip] > python3 master!? Python 3.7.3 (default, Dec 20 2019, 18:57:59) [GCC 8.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from evdev import InputDevice, categorize, ecodes >>> ...
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 7:05 pm
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
Do you mean you want "touch off, touch back on"? Yes! Knowing the screen state on shell level wouldn't be an issue. I can either read the brightness from /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness or the screen state from /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/bl_power. There just seems to...
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 5:46 pm
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
I don't want to be ungrateful but am afraid the program does not do what I need. As a screensaver where one can set the maximum 'on' time when there is no input it may be useful but it cannot be used to simply toggle between on and off. When you set the time value to 60, touching the screen does not...
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:03 am
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
Thanks you a lot. I'll try it out and report back.DougieLawson wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 9:14 pmI've improved the docs for my C program and added a missing piece.
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
Yes. Additionally, I'd like to keep the capability to turn the backlight/screen on or off by command. It seems Dougie put something together already. Thank you for your offer.
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:21 am
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
No hurry. I highly appreciate your involvement in this community. If I knew any C I would cobble something together from your code myself.
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 6:22 am
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
https://github.com/DougieLawson/backlight_dimmer does what you want. Now that I looked at it and run it I understand better what it does. It is similar to a screensaver where I set the time the screen stays on until it fades. The on-duration will be extended when a touch event is registered. It is ...
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 5:28 am
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
Re: How to toggle screen by touch?
Thank you for your reply! In my research I already came across your solution. Is it possible to run it indefinitely without a fixed delay and use it just to toggle display states? Well, I'll compile it and see for myself. This is the simple shell script I put together that would be called (option -t...
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: Official Foundation Display
- Topic: How to toggle screen by touch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1451
How to toggle screen by touch?
Hi!
I know how to set brightness and turn the screen on and off from the command line. I want to toggle the screen between on and off via touch. Is there a better way to intercept touch events than using evtest in an endless loop?
I know how to set brightness and turn the screen on and off from the command line. I want to toggle the screen between on and off via touch. Is there a better way to intercept touch events than using evtest in an endless loop?
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:33 am
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
is it possible to tell the wlan interface to change the channel while it is connected to 5G band? Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think changing the channel would solve the original issue. I also think one has to select the channel the access Point is broadcasting on. The issue is twofold. It...
- Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:37 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
Whitelisting the desired MAC, blacklisting the unwanted MAC of the AP and limiting the frequencies didn't help. Every once in a while the Raspberry ends up in the 5 GHz network. : (
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:49 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
if freq_list =... is not working, maybe scan_freq =... to only scan the given frequencies. or non_pref_chan =... to define non prefered channels in multi band operation It wasn't working- I have the suspicion that the access point's steering is overriding the client's settings (which shouldn't happ...
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:22 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
Thanks, but I trying that already (see above). It is not working. When I check, it initially connects to 34:81:C4:XX:XX:XX but soon switches to 34:81:C4:XX:XX:XY.Paul Hutch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:02 pmYou can use the freq_list parameter in wpa_supplicant.conf to limit what frequency/channels the Pi will connect to.
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:41 am
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
is your 5Ghz/2.4GHz AP a DIY one? [...] you also can give both bands a different SSID name e.g. abc for the 2.4GHz band and abc-5g for the 5GHz band. so you can choose the bands by name, when you connect a device. Thanks for the remark. The access point is a widely used commercial cable router. Als...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:26 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Re: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
One solution when you can't unlock your house's back door is to add another one with a working lock. : )mattmiller wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:09 pmOne solution might be to buy a separate 2.4GHz dongle and just completely disable the internal
Edit: No snarkyness intended.
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: RPi4 not rebooting headless after using HDMI to set it up
- Replies: 4
- Views: 369
Re: RPi4 not rebooting headless after using HDMI to set it up
Try setting display and resolution settings in /boot/config.txt like this:
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hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=16
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Serial-Signal send information to local website
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1061
Re: Serial-Signal send information to local website
I would use Node RED, the Serial-In node and Node RED's dashboard. You can create flows for visualization and processing/storage.
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:56 am
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4728
Odd routing, cannot force 4b Pi to 2.4 GHz wifi (wpa_supplicant)
I don't know why but it seems two Raspberry Pis on my network (a 4b and a 3b) don't see each other when they are connected to different frequency bands on the same access point. In other words, it seems as if the access point wouldn't route between devices on different bands. On the other hand, I ca...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:18 am
- Forum: Camera board
- Topic: Check camera board on RPI4
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1878
Re: Check camera board on RPI4 [SOLVED]
Thank you for your help. I solved my issue. The reason why the camera wasn't found was that the /boot/config.txt entry to activate the camera was made in the wrong file. The partition the Pi booted from wasn't mounted as /boot but rather a clone of the boot partition on my USB3-connected SSD. I fixe...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: Camera board
- Topic: Check camera board on RPI4
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1878
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:01 pm
- Forum: Camera board
- Topic: Check camera board on RPI4
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1878
Re: Check camera board on RPI4
Thanks for the response but I went through all the usual troubleshooting steps already. I have reached the stage where I wonder if it is a firmware problem.