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Files placed onto the SD card from windows will end up in the /boot directory.

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A lot of people think they need more cooling on the Pi. They are wrong. Remember, the chips on this board were designed to run things like cell phones - no ventilation or cooling of any kind. That said, I do like the idea of an aluminum case because I may need a "less destructible" case fo...

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I sounds to me like he wants to run a browser that loads a page from elsewhere - not serve the page. The page requires a login, and he wants that handled automatically. You could mod your login script to start X and mod the X config to load a browser with the startup page set to the page you want. (...

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I solved the sunrise/sunset problem in my home automation code by using CURL and pulling today's times for sunrise and sunset for my location from the US Naval Observatory site. This is called every time the program starts and when a new day is detected (i.e. it passed midnight) Here is the code I u...

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The simplest way to read temperature is with a One Wire Digital Temperature Sensor such as the DS18B20.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/245

Here is a good tutorial on how to use it.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspbe ... mperature/

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I ordered mine in July and just got it last week.
RS simply wasn't prepared for the huge demand for the Pi and they are still trying to catch up.
They received shipments from China but can only process about 5000 per day.

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Looks OK to me, but I didn't try to run it. What problem are you having? Two possible problems I will mention since I have so little info to go on: You initialized using wiringPiSetup, which implies that you will be using the Wiring Pi pin numbering, not the standard GPIO pin numbering. See https://...

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Pluggy is absolutely right about not trusting the label on a power supply.
I bought three USB chargers that were sold as "for the raspberry pi"
They say they are 1A but I seriously doubt it. They can power the Pi, but as soon as I plug in a keyboard and mouse, it fails.

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I have a home automation/alarm system running now on the Pi. It uses the serial port on the GPIO pins. I have had a lot of problems with USB to Serial adapters on normal Linux systems, so I didn't want to go that route on the Pi. I haven't written up my blog post on the X10 interface yet, but you ca...

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the command dpkg -l will list all installed packages, but I doubt that is what you really want. do a "man smartsim" and see what the command line should be for what you want and then create a link on your desktop to run that. I almost never use X - all my systems are headless - but it seem...

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These magazines you speak of; Do they have batteries or must read them on-line.

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If your program has a graphical interface, then you probably need screen (I prefer to use a VNC server on the Pi and a VNC client on my PC. Search this forum for instructions.) If the program is text based, you can just use the nohup command to keep the program running after you log off. When I have...

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Ah. Now I have some useful info. I think this may be caused by a side effect of how the script was created. The ^M is a "carriage return" but Linux uses ^J or "Line Feed" as the line terminator. These are often referred to as CR and LF. I suspect that your script actually has ^M ...

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As I noted in another thread, the half size uSD adapter (like the one sold by Adafruit) is too thick to fit through the slot of any case that I have seen. Removing the SD card when transporting the Pi would seem like a good way to reduce the odds of breaking the SD card slot, but you probably alread...

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chmod changes the access settings on a file or directory. The su commmand changes what user you are, although that is deprecated and sudo should be used instead. I was referring to the whether you were running the command as root. But you have a point. I tested and a normal user can not create a dir...

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When a time delay or specific time is used in the shutdown command, the file /etc/nologin is created. The existence of this file causes the login process to give you that error. I see two options. The hard one is to mount the sdcard on another linux system and delete the /etc/nologin file. The easie...

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Permissions perhaps?
You must be root to mount anything.

Do you get any error messages when you run the script from a shell?

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The answer is - it depends, but basically no - no license fees. (Who would you pay them to anyway?) The basic foundation of Linux is licensed under GPL (or something similar.) This means that you are free to use it in a commercial application. However, because it is GPL'ed, other people could give i...

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I wouldn't mind soldering a Micro-SD holder instead of the SD card holder but I can't find any sold via eBay. Could anyone recommend a site that sells them (preferably the spring loaded type)?? Richard S. adafruit has an awesome "short" adapter so the card doesn't stick out. Their idea is...

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There is nothing on the typical RasPi images that would block any networking. I suspect that the problem is elsewhere. Windows firewall is a common culprit. (assuming that the "other device" is Windows) You can use the command: netstat -a and look for the listening ports to see if SNMP is ...

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I wish the raspberrypi technicians and scientist would update or design the supermini raspberrypi computer so that it will function using my HP Probook laptop monitor. If and when they decide, please notify me. Please advise. Thank you. Joe Pereira(age 77) P.S. I have been into electronic since I w...

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BTW, you will see a lot of views and few posts because most people coming here are looking for answers, not giving them out. Most likely, the first 50 viewers had no clue how to solve your problem. I read this forum for two reasons 1. I need to find answers myself sometimes, but mostly 2. I enjoy he...

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stedew is correct, another process already has the device open, so you get that error.

Look at my blog post
http://raspberrypihobbyist.blogspot.com ... -port.html

Look at the 2nd half of the post for instructions on how to "free up" the serial port.

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That device is intended for NFC use, which is typically 4 inches or less.
For typical RFID tags, like those used in many consumer products, you would probably be better of with this:
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/Produ ... fault.aspx

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I have had several variations of this running at home for over ten years. Now I am converting the system to use a RasPi. The system has 8 inputs for hard wired motion detectors and door sensors. Also, 4 relays for output Serial port connected to a CM11a X10 interface. There are several X10 motion de...

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