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toldcodger

Hi,

Thanks for the info.
I’ve wrecked my knee so I can’t get around at the moment without putting my wife to a lot of trouble.
There’s nothing wrong with the installation as far as I’m aware. I just didn’t want to install something that would cause issues.

Regards
Dave

toldcodger

Hi,
I have just set up an SDcard with the 64 bit OS on it.
It seems to run very well on my 4Gb RPi4
There isn’t much in the software catalogue in Preferences.
Can I install 32 bit packages such as GIMP or does it need to be 64 bit ?

Regards
Dave

toldcodger

Hi,

Thanks Svetb, adding sleep 15 to the systemd hostapd.service file worked perfectly.

I tried the other fixes and the only one that worked was restarting the hostapd service.

toldcodger

Thanks for the info. The screen may be a pipe dream. I’m having enough problems getting the pi, the camera and a power supply in the case at the moment

toldcodger

Hi, I hope this is the correct part of the forum. If not please feel free to move it. I’m trying to fit a Pi0 and pi camera in a Brownie Reflex camera. The I would like to replace the mirror and glass viewing screen with a small lcd / oiled screen. Does anyone know of a screen that will connect via ...

toldcodger

I have a problem with an Adafruit 3.5 touchscreen.
I’m new to this Xstroke and touchscreens. How do you run an Evtest ?

I don’t have much spare time at the moment but if I get anywhere I’ll let you know.

Regards

Dave

toldcodger

I got it to work with the UnicornHat and SonicPi.

Unfortunately the movie won’t upload. It looks like I need to convert it to an avi file.

I was looking at SonicPi and saw the OSC option. You have to have SonicPi open and running an OSC listening script but it works.

toldcodger

Thanks guys,

On the micro bit I lit up a row of leds then played a note, then another row of leds and another note etc.

I think the rttl method may be the best fit.For this method.

If I get it working on the Pi i’ll Post it on here.

Thanks again

Dave

toldcodger

Thanks. I’ll remember that if I need to reformat it.

toldcodger

Hi, I was recently playing around with micro python on a BBC microbit. Using some basic instructions I got it to show rows of LED’s and using the music library I got it to play the notes of the Close Encounters riff very simply by stating the note, octave and duration, i.e G4:4, A4:4 etc. I think th...

toldcodger

Well you, and people like you, make this community what it is.

You all do a great job

Thanks again.

toldcodger

Thank you for the quick response Gents.

Do you reply to every post Dougie

As I said in my original post, I wasn’t sure if i’d missed something special about the pins.

Regards

Dave

toldcodger

Hi, I have had the screen for some time now and it’s working perfectly. I just want to clarify something simple before breaking it :). According to the instructions, the power and ground should be connected to pins 4 & 6. Would it matter if the 5v was connected to pin 2 and the ground to one of ...

toldcodger

I have a multimeter at work that measures temperature. I’ll do some before and after checks and see if there is any difference. I’ve made a fan that senses the cpu temp and varies the fan speed accordingly I got the heatsink in a pack of 12 at the Maplins wake. It’s a bit long but I’ll cut it down. ...

toldcodger

Thanks guys,

I know it gets hot but it’s more my OCD. There’s a hole in the case lid ... it needs something in it

Regards

Dave

toldcodger

Hi, I have a RPi 3B+ and my case has a hole above the LAN / USB chip. It’s the black chip in the middle of the board just behind the USB ports. I know everyone says the RPi doesn’t need heatsinks, but would it do any harm to put a heatsink on it. I have a heatsink with a self adhesive thermal patch ...

toldcodger

Thanks guys, I knew it was a forlorn hope but it’s always worth asking :) I remembered seeing that trick with the polyfuse so I left the it powered off for a couple of days and it was the same. :( My fine soldering skills are non existent so I may hand it over to friend who’s a wizard with electroni...

toldcodger

Hi, I’ve killed my RPI3B+. It was plugged in and working, I dropped a screw near it and it hit the Pi. The Pi shut down and hasn’t started since. Please don’t lecture me about covering the Pi etc. I know it was stupid and I feel bad enough :( I think it either shorted just the 3.3v & 5v pins or,...

toldcodger

Firstly, thanks for this info. I had a tiny 5 volt fan so I got the transistor, diode and resistor and set it up. The fan wasn’t actually up to the job, so it wouldn’t go below 75% speed. I bought a couple of 5 volt fans from Pi Hut and using the same circuit, I tried again. I hacked some code toget...

toldcodger

Thanks for this. Like a few others I found an SD card reader that the Pi likes.

toldcodger

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately the info proved the Zero was dead as the proverbial. I tried to update it the other day and it was dead. I had been running it from a phone bank. I tested the output from the bank and it never went above 5.03 volts so i’m not sure what killed it. It worked the last...

toldcodger

It may have been a typo earlier but you said the sudo apt install nmap command didn’t work. I think the command should be “sudo apt-get install nmap”

toldcodger

I recently bought a 2Tb WD My Passport drive. I had full access on a Win 10 laptop and I could access the drive and open folders when I connected it to the Raspberry Pi, but I could not create folders or files. Nor could I paste or move anything on to the drive. I reformatted it as vfat from the Pi ...

toldcodger

Worked like a charm. Thanks epoch1970. I had edited fstab and nofail was not in the line I added. I presume this was the reason for the read only boot up I was trying to add a new user and give them full access to any usb devices without adding them to the root or pi groups. This was just the last i...

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This is an odd one, but it may happen to others. I have two identical TV’s. I had connected a Pi Zero to one and did some configuring on it everything shutdown normally. The following day I connected the Zero to the other TV. It appeared to boot immediately to the desktop but was not really working....

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