SeanHowsen said: Thanks pal, looks like a lot of people are favouring the older images, not had any problems with the built in wifi on the model 3? :) *************************************************** Well, Here is why I expressed my earlier opinions. I had 8 RPi 3 boxes sitting on the bench ready...

Ok YourHighPriestess, First of all about 70% of the forum users here, english is a 2nd or 3rd language. So patience and oversimplifying your questions with as much information as possible is the best approach. Not everyone reading your question will necessarily understand it completely without your ...

This is my second attempt to explain what I am trying to do. After reading my first attempt I deleted it out of frustration. However I think I can at least explain what I am trying to do this time. I have a RPi 3 operating as apache2/php server that serves up simple web pages to 4 other RPi's as sor...

Oh well. I gave up trying. I started a new sd card with Jessie (did this 2 additional times) and did the install again and it still fails with the same message. :x I recycled one of the failed Jessie WordPress SD card attempts with a new Jessie Lite image and went through the install of LAMP and Wor...

I installed the LAMP server and then WordPress jessie on one of my Pi 3 boxes. When logged into the wp admin dash board and click on "customize" the default theme (Twenty-seventeen), I get a blank white screen :x I then edited the wp-config.php file to turn on debugging and then attempted the same t...

Well, I guess that all depends on "how" you plan to track your payload. If it is intended to be tracked by networked tracking stations, then a cell phone running the app will take care of the chase car, and get you close enough to pull out the yagi antenna and pinpoint the location. No additional ma...

Hmm... same here. I never do anything other than install what I need for data work and leave everything else to the default user "pi". As for "unreliable" sources, I wouldn't know. I have purchase over a hundred Pi2 and Pi3 kits from AddaFruit and they are a certified distributor. But with so many P...

Okay, I recently suffered through this as well. I had a perfectly working RPi 3 on Jessie and did the apt-get update, upgrade, and dist upgrade, only to find the WiFi no longer worked. Now this is my "opinion" but it seems that the upgrade path does not make your system equivalent to a 2017-01-11 ne...

One additional thing to consider... Most of the fun with balloon tracking is what to do when the balloon is out of range (usually in about the first 45 min to an hour). YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary). :shock: There are internet resources for identifying your payload signal and pinning it to a map. The...

Hmm... Finally something to exercise my amateur radio side of the brain. Ok, There are a few tricks you can use to get your PITS board the maximum chance of being heard. First, the balloon payload (your pi radio) will perform best if the antenna is oriented as nearly to horizontal as possible. A mis...

Hmm... I guess in my frustration to get a complete set of instructions out of my system, I actually left the original post by PennyPacker with an unanswered question. I also need to know how to properly exit the kiosk mode to enter the GUI mode again when doing testing. I am a beginner at this so pl...

LOL, thank you sir james. You are probably right, but it was actually intentional. The folks that are overly critical are the ones that will see "rant" and move on without finishing. That was kinda the idea here. The poor hobbyist that has been banging his head against the wall looking for answers (...

Before I get started here, dear reader needs to be aware that this is a long and wordy reply and not only a damn good set of instructions, but also my opportunity to finally dump my rant on all the noble RPi fanatics that seems to have found it beneath themselves to write something straight forward ...