General discussion • HDMI Lead
Hi all I am trying to use an old laptop screen to make a MagicMirrorDoes anyone know where I can get an HDMI lead that runs from a Raspberry Pi 4 to the control board for a laptop screen.So it would...
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It's unlikely a laptop will use hdmi signalling for its internal screen, so what you are asking for is probably not possible.There are people who have designed interface boards to connect to laptop...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Tennis recording idea. Is using an Rpi5 overkill?
I tend to agree that a zero 2w could get the job done, (might even be the ideal choice)... It's 15 bucks and has built in wifi... Given that it sounds like the bulk of the cost of the project will be...
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General discussion • Re: Help Needed – Can I Run Home Assistant with...
It is my belief that all of what you are trying to do is indeed possible, (noting that I've never done it)...The thing I think that makes it possible is the hailo ai accelerator... if you were running...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • raspberry pi 4 model B with RB-MATRIXCTRL and a button
Is it possible to have a raspberry pi 4 model B with a the RB-MatrixCtrl (from joy-it) and a push button together? i mean the RB-MatrixCtrl is taking all the pings, i need two for my button (GND and...
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General discussion • How to use background images to change buttons status in...
Hello people, I currently have a GUI to control a microgreen farm, it uses the standard tkinter buttons, but would like to improve its look by using background images for the GUI instead, where one...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: raspberry pi 4 model B with RB-MATRIXCTRL and a button
According to the manual available from the link you gave, almost all the GPIO pins are used. The exceptions are GPIO 0 and 1, which are normally reserved for HAT EEPROMs. As long as the board is not a...
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General discussion • Re: How to use background images to change buttons...
And here are my 3 created GUI images (800 x 480px) showing the different buttons status:GUI with button in the default status:GUI with the buttons in "Clicked status":and the third image showing the...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Need help -- setting up temperature fan control.
I need someone to help me set up how to use a Raspberry Pi for controlling a fan based on temperature. I mainly want to use it in my room at night, where the fan will increase or decrease its speed by...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Device Manager?
I can't seem to find such a feature in the OS. Does anyone know of a program that I can install that does basically what windows device manager does?Thanks!Statistics: Posted by DCCXCIII — Sat Apr 05,...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Device Manager?
I can't seem to find such a feature in the OS. Does anyone know of a program that I can install that does basically what windows device manager does?Thanks!I have not seen one, nor needed it. So my...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Need help -- setting up temperature fan control.
This is dependent on what model of Raspberry Pi you have.On Pi 5 there is dedicated fan header and Raspberry Pi OS is prepared with predefined fan curve. You can also buy active cooler:...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Zulucrypt: PiOS / ARM and LM / x86
tl;dr: I found that a ZuluCrypt container created on my desktop PC (an old Dell tower with an AMD x86-64 CPU), running Linux Mint, would not open in ZuluCrypt running on the Raspberry Pi. Any ideas...
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General discussion • RPi4 EEPROM corrupted
So im a newbie with pi’s I have a pretty old pi 4B, used to work, I think when I last used it the power went out during an update, not a EEPROM or firmware update It no longer boots and HDMI gives me...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: RPi4 EEPROM corrupted
Are the flashes short or long?https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi ... ery-guide/Statistics: Posted by RaspyHat — Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:28 am
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Weird taskbar crap
Morning.Rpi 4 8gb with bookworm.Taskbar keeps appearing and disappearing. Appears for about half a second then goes.Any ideas anyone?Guessing time for a reimage.Statistics: Posted by jondallimore —...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Zulucrypt: PiOS / ARM and LM / x86
I am using Zulucrypt on a Pi5 with Bookworm.Code: Version : 6.2.0Copyright: 2011-2022 Francis Banyikwa,mhogomchungu@gmail.comLicense : GPLv2+My container (volume hosted in a file 8GB in size) was...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Books/magazines on RPI5
All the free stuff that the Bookshelf app shows is also available on Raspberry Pi's dedicated website magazine.raspberrypi.com.For Raspberry Pi Magazine (nee MagPi):...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.
Still working to make 2 custom OSes available to PINN as per your doc here: https://github.com/procount/pinn/wiki/H ... using-PINNThanks, building bsdtar per your instructions worked. I'm down to the...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Raspberry Pi 5 Continuous Servo Complete Stop
I am attempting to make a mg996r continuous motion servo come to a complete stop using this code:from gpiozero import Servoservo=Servo(26)servo.value(0)while True:motion=input(“Enter value between -1...
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