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Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:27 am**

Can a Raspberry Pi 3 latest version connect to an older t.v.'s r.c.a. inputs? The red,white and yellow. I have cables that go from the 3.5mm head phone jack to a r.c.a. composites. But the t.v. screen is black. None one of the cables i bought seem to work. Even thou the one i bought claimed to work with the raspberry 2.

Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:06 am**

Yes it is possible. You need a correctly wired cable.

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Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:22 am**

It could be that the Pi is locked to HDMI output, you may need to set it to composite output.

Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:51 am**

bigpermntheworm wrote:Can a Raspberry Pi 3 latest version connect to an older t.v.'s r.c.a. inputs? The red,white and yellow. I have cables that go from the 3.5mm head phone jack to a r.c.a. composites. But the t.v. screen is black. None one of the cables i bought seem to work. Even thou the one i bought claimed to work with the raspberry 2.

If you have the correct TRRS4 Cable then you may need to edit config.txt as the composite display defaults to NTSC (American) output.

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sdtv_mode=2

0 is NTSC, 1 is Japanese NTSC, 2 is PAL, 3 is Brazilian PAL

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... fig-txt.md

Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:59 pm**

bigpermntheworm wrote:Can a Raspberry Pi 3 latest version connect to an older t.v.'s r.c.a. inputs? The red,white and yellow. I have cables that go from the 3.5mm head phone jack to a r.c.a. composites. But the t.v. screen is black. None one of the cables i bought seem to work. Even thou the one i bought claimed to work with the raspberry 2.

Give a link to the cable you bought.
The most commonly available cable is a 'camcorder' (Sony, Panasonic, Samsung etc) cable which has red and yellow swapped.
Red of the cable goes to Yellow on the TV
Yellow of cable to Red on TV
White to White
It won't hurt to try any combination.

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