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I'm putting a smaller label with same bg color in an area on the large label that has no content.
It would look nicer to have it overlay. May not be able to do that sounds like.

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Does anyone know how to place a label on top of another? I use place but my 2nd label is blocked out by the first (using same bg color). I want to superimpose it. (Rear -- front etc). THANK YOU.

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Can anyone give me info on a xmtr/rcvr pair that will let me monitor outside temp and possibly humidity and be able to have some data output on the rcvr that I can use to write some code for a PI? Some sort of module thing that's maybe a transceiver or an off the shelf premade unit? Better because I...

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Are you on debian stretch? VLC is hardware accelerated. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-update-november-2018/ So if I'm on the latest version of Raspian with a PI3 will that give me the platform for a better VLC ? I know Raspian is based on Debian but too much lingo throws me. -- thanks M...

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Oh -- my bad. I thought it was just a command line player. I'll look into that. !

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Omxplayer does a great job playing videos, found that VLC does not. Would like however a GUI based player like VLC that does the trick, maybe with some options like playing all videos in a folder with a shuffle option? Anything available? Like Omxplayer and I could write a script I suppose but just ...

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I want to ask before doing this but I'm having a hard time finding a video camera with remote control. so wondering if it's feasible to do a video camera on a PI 3. Don't need real high resolution, widescreen 720 would be nice. The remote control shouldn't be a problem through the GPIO. I know there...

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thanks Paul -- just what I was looking for.

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Just picking brains if anyone has experience with this. Looks like the MOD1016 module would be the way to go and I ran across some python code for the module. BUT -- I'm guessing this really needs to be outside and away from RF to work well ? With a serial feed like RS485 or something to the PI perh...

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Ok. I'll get started on it using SDcopier. Thank you all very much.

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Thanks. So does SD copier make an exact clone of the PI card? I have an auto executing python script along with Raspian and misc etc on the card. Silly question but I'll ask anyway. I assume it does. Is SD copier pretty straightforward when you use it through the gui? EZ peasy? It prompts you throug...

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Here's what I'm trying to do -- I have an 8 GB SD card that I did on the PI and no problem at all reading it and creating an IMG file on my Windows 7 computer hard drive, using Win32diskimager. I'd like to make another image file for backup but on a removable medium like USB preferably (or possibly ...

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what is the "raspberry pi specific mods to chromium" folder in add programs? mean anything? it's not installed.

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just uninstalled and reinstalled from command line -- same issue as before, program won't open. the spinner just runs for a while and that's it.

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Well I did a sudo update and upgrade this morning -- so maybe that's it. Actually don't know what version of Raspian I had before. Does upgrade update the os?

It says I now have Version 8 Jessie. Maybe I'll try to uninstall and reinstall Chromium? I'll try it from the command line this time.

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BTW. installed chromium with synaptic. thanks for any help.

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I have version 8 Jesse and started the default browser (safari?), tried to open a Gmail message and couldn't download something. Then noted a statement saying browser no longer supported? So then -- figured I would try Chromium, so installed it and when i try to open Chromium, the spinner just runs ...

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Heck, I like the ascii "inflate" -- I'll just make a bold O and change the text size ! Love it.

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I like those simple spinner ideas --- never thought about using a slash or something and then just
repositioning my Tkinter label in my loop.

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Thanks guys -- appreciate the help.

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Well it would make my life easier if I could find a simple "dot" (solid circle) that I could just substitute in a label that now has some text in it. Just something small that will display on and off showing the "heartbeat" of the program. A spinner would be nice but the ttf font...

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Another question I have is I know a lot of graphics symbols shapes etc can be made into a true type font. has anyone seen a link for getting some basic graphic shapes (like dots, squares, etc) in ttf format? -- thanks

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has anyone seen examples of one of those circular progress loaders (round progress bar I guess?) you know, like when videos are loading etc.

want to do one in Tkinter which I imagine will be a lot of work. -- thanks

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No worries -- I may do something myself to learn more about bash. Working great but the keyboard shortcuts don't work so can't get out of the script. I suppose it has something to do with it being in a while loop? Can't even bring up LX terminal on the keyboard and I hate doing a cold power off on t...

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btw -- is there anything I can do in the script to get omxplayer to play the files randomly ? probably not -- even if I could it would repeat played files probably.

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