thagrol wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 9:09 pm

Have you looked at your crontabs yet?

Try

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crontab -e

and

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sudo crontab -e

The first is for your normal user, the second is for root's.

I'll take a look tonight. Are there any other options I might have used? Is there some form of search through all files I could use to find the GPIO?

deepo wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 7:58 pm

Why not park the magic mirror micro SD somewhere safe, and flash a new Raspbian for your new project.

/Mogens

An idea, but I don't have a spare micro Sd card. And I Hadd hoped to be ready for Thursday (daughters ballet and tap lessons...)

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Okay, so that was the un-debugged copy of my code on my PC, and not the debugged RPi copy. Still, the code as follows produces the error: #!/usr/bin/env python import RPi.GPIO as gpio # handle the switch event def buttonEventHandler (pin): if (lane1_lap <= race_length) & (lane2_lap <= race_length): ...

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This works fine for Win7 as well.

Just a point of note to anyone who cannot see the sharing tab (see step 1): make sure that internet sharing is not enabled for the ethernet connection already. If it is, you will not be able to enable it for the wifi connection (in my experience).

So should I just leave that part out then?

Okay, stupid question:

remsnet wrote: dns-search your.net.name
dns-nameservers 192.168.250.1

Do you mean to literally put that into the interfaces file? If I do that, then I loose the SSH connectivity to the Pi.

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