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Ken

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I just opened the package on a Zero-W, installed Raspbian, updated and am up and running. I have a Bluetooth "receiver" which I have hooked to a small set of non-powered speakers. From the panel I set Bluetooth to be discoverable, selected Add device, searched for devices, found my receiver, selecte...

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Thanks again tempest766, So far my testing from the 3B+ to the Bluetooth receiver speakers has been done in my office with a whole bunch of other electronic stuff running. I think as I will arrange the pieces and parts I will have the Zero W Velcro taped to the back of an old 15" flat panel display ...

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Thanks W. H. Heydt, The speaker I was looking at last evening was rated ad 10 watts per channel - 20 total. That would be nominally 4 amps at 5 volts. It did have an internal battery which the USB would over time charge. Still, I would rather the speakers be charged independently from the Pi. And fo...

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Thanks tempest766, A good point about bandwidth. In this project I am building a new jukebox for my workshop. Originally I had an old laptop/netbook with my 450+ album music collection converted to mp3 files which I would play through some even older powered PC speakers. I recently replaced the lapt...

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Having played and worked with microcomputers since about 1980 I finally decided to dabble with Bluetooth :o I have a project where I need to get some sound out of a Pi Zero and Bluetooth seemed to be the path of least resistance. For the moment I am using a 3B+ as the Zero is still on the Big Brown ...

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Last year I tried openSUSE on a Pi 3B (I think it was.) I did not do much with it as I was not familiar with SUSE. I decided to try again using one of my Pi 3B+ machines. I tried these images from https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi3 Leap 42.3 XFCE - would not boot - just the multicolor screen ...

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Thanks fruitoftheloom, A couple of reasons I do not run Raspbian... While it is based on Debian, the desktop environment is LXDE which (I am tempted to say something rude) is somewhat cumbersome. If I place a launcher on the panel it pushes the right most icon off the screen. To correct that I have ...

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I have been using VNC for at least 20 years and I still have no idea of the proper way to configure the thing. I have working examples of the xstartup file which I copy from a working machine to the new machine (different hardware, OS, desktop etc.) and tweak as necessary to make the new one work. I...

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Thanks to all who have responded to my post. WOW! A lot of good information and links. I now know more about SD cards than I really wanted to :) My 3 - 16 GB Sandisk cards are marked A1. They provided good performance. My 3 - 16 GB PNY brand are not so marked but they work OK. That said, the biggest...

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I have done some searching on the "best" MicroSD cards for the Pi. I already have several cards and they all work except for one which I think was defective from the factory and is going back to Sandisk when their support phones wake up later today. That said, while diagnosing the bad card I decided...

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Yes really 18.04. I started with the 16.04 image, booted it on a 3B, performed the necessary tweaks to enable it to boot on a 3B+, booted it on a 3B+ and then did a do-release-upgrade. It took a while but was successful. I have the resulting image running on 3 3B+ at the moment.

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Perhaps I need to take a course in how to use search engines (or perhaps search engines need to take a course on how to search for what I ask for, not what is convenient to find.) Off my soap box now :D I have several Pi 3B+ models running Ubuntu Mate 18.04 from MicroSD cards. I wish to boot one fro...

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I just obtained a replacement 64 GB replacement card. It works fine.

Ken

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My wife says computers have a mind of their own. Perhaps that is true

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Thank you to all for your replies. I will try another 64 GB card. I will also try one of the fake card detector programs. I had read about the issue with USB "thumb" drives which would appear to be some number of GB but would only hold a small amount of that data. I did format the thing as FAT and c...

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Thanks mikronauts,

As I posted, the card reports errors unrelated to its use in the Pi. As long as a Pi will work with a 64 GB card I will try another. I am hoping someone can provide some experience good or bad.

Ken

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I am running several Pi's from 16 GB MicroSD cards. I am trying to set one up with a 64 GB card so I can include my mp3 collection on the card. I have tried cloning a working Ubuntu installation from a 16 GB card by a number of methods which I have used successfully to clone cards. I am finding a lo...

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Thanks folks. It is not that bad and it is only when I shut down the Pi and before I shut off power to the supply. It was just a curiosity. I have the new Pi connected to the DVI port on the monitor using a cable which goes from the HDMI port on the Pi. In prior setups I had a HDMI to VGA adapter an...

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p.s. The cruypttab process I described works on my headless servers. No intervention is required. If you are considering whole disk encryption for the operating system... that can be done but from my experience it requires a pass phrase to be entered to boot the machine, On the other hand I have set...

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Glad to help. Raspbian is rather strange from what I have seen. I am using Ubuntu Mate 18.04 on my Pi's. I have not tried the openvpn log issue on Ubuntu yet. At the moment I am attempting to move a working image from a 16 GB card to a 64 GB card so I can add my music collection to it. It will be a ...

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I just purchased my FOURTH Pi from Adafruit. These are the neatest little toys! However, they seem to find their way into "production" applications too fast. I am using one as a gateway/router/firewall/vpn sharing box on my LAN, the second as a dedicated Bit-torrent client, and the third as a jukebo...

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Good morning RDPUser, As I posted last evening I was able to reproduce your issue exactly. Then I got distracted by some other things. I am back at it this morning and here are the results of my experimentation. I tried different locations and names for the vpn log as described below. Some worked an...

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I configured my system as you described. I can confirm your findings. If I omit the log /home/pi/vpn.log entry in /etc/openvpn/vpn.conf I find the log file in /var/log as I would expect. I did observe that the permissions on /var/log/vpn/log were 600. This makes me think that the log path may be har...

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I have a newly imaged and updated Raspberian stretch installation which I built yesterday. I have done nothing but set the locale and let it run the updates. I will try setting up your configuration and let you know what I find.

Ken

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Re: Bluetooth range on a Pi

Sound through Bluetooth on Pi Zero-W

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Re: Bluetooth range on a Pi

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Bluetooth range on a Pi

Is anyone running openSUSE on a Pi 3B+ ?

Re: VNC on Ubuntu Mate on Pi 3B+

VNC on Ubuntu Mate on Pi 3B+

Re: SD Card speed - Pi limitation ?

SD Card speed - Pi limitation ?

Re: Boot Pi 3B+ to Ubuntu Mate from USB drive?

Boot Pi 3B+ to Ubuntu Mate from USB drive?

Re: Any reason why a Pi 3 will not run from a 64 GB card?

Re: OpenVPN can't write logfile to home folder

Re: Any reason why a Pi 3 will not run from a 64 GB card?

Re: Any reason why a Pi 3 will not run from a 64 GB card?

Any reason why a Pi 3 will not run from a 64 GB card?

Re: Noisy Pi power supply?

Re: OpenVPN can't write logfile to home folder

Re: OpenVPN can't write logfile to home folder

Noisy Pi power supply?

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