General discussion • pi5 NVME takes 90 seconds to boot
Using a Pi 5 with a WD Blue SN550 NVME and no SD card installed. I've been trying to figure out why (after following many of the internet tutorials) the Pi still takes 90 seconds to boot. It boots to...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: pi5 NVME takes 90 seconds to boot
I recommend that you don't use a WD NVMe drive. Multiple versions have had issues reported.Statistics: Posted by jdb — Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:04 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Trouble with installing/running os
Use Raspberry Pi Imager to write Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit "Bookworm" to a spare microSD card (32GB is fine) as your first card may be bad.I use SanDisk Ultra 32GB or Samsung EVO 32GB.Boot from that and...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: samba question
See this: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Statistics: Posted by memjr — Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:02 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Booting RPI5 without connected HDMI screen
Hello,I just copied SD card and after booting there is still same issue with screen like before... I checked the settings in sudo nano /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt and there is correct...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: 3.3V 5.5V Shortage Still A problem on RPi5
Hey,sadly my Pi5 has meet with a short between 3.3 and 5V.Im Wondering. This Problem was prominent on Rp3. How can it be that this Problem has not been resoved on Pi5(With a failsave for example).I...
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General discussion • Re: thought experiment: privacy and security when...
thanksso i guess to be sure there should be a process of zeroing out those stores too and restoring with surely secure firmwarethen assuming no hardware vulnerabilities we are assured completely...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: UK ICO warning re: Google ad policies and...
What mitigations are available on the Pi?Switching to Firefox?Firefox with the noScript and ublock origin plugins, and maybe Privacy Badger, has been the "go to " recommendation for anyone who objects...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: hard drives
evening,random one - I have 2 USB hard drives on a pi 4 bookworm.Is there any way to make the 2 hdd appear as 1 drive, ie in one folder on filemanager?thanksYou can format them with Btrfs instead of...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: New Pi 5 Revision? What changed?
There is only one revision of the RP1.Statistics: Posted by jamesh — Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:09 pm
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Pi 3 A+ prefers 6V instead of 5V?
Any voltage above 5.1V is likely to be deadly.I would hope not when USB was initially 5V +/- 5%, 5.25V, and the USB 2.0 specification allows for a maximum of 5.5V. The Absolute Maximum VIN for the Pi...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Any ideas what's wrong with my Pi4
I bought a new Pi4 about six months ago. At first, it worked without a problem, but when I went to use it again, I found that I had no video. It's not a video fault as the HDMI output gives me the...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Raspberry Pi 5: is there a vcgencmd command to get RP1...
Using a Raspberry Pi 5 16GB I saw that sensors command give volt and temp info for RP1 chip (I guess it by the name of the sensor; rp1_adc-isa): Code: # sensorspwmfan-isa-0000Adapter: ISA adapterfan1:...
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General discussion • Re: Any ideas what's wrong with my Pi4
add the screens resolution to the front of /boot/cmdline.txt (/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt from inside raspberry)Code: video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080 vc4.force_hotplug=1 example from mineStatistics: Posted by...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: pi5 4gb 8gb 16gb sdram tuning
Also, On the 16gb's blog, it refers to a January update specifically for the 16gb that tunes memory and performance.Is this the SDRAM tuning tweak mentioned above? If so, will it soon be available on...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: can't remember password from 4 years ago
Is there anything to stop one copying between the /etc/secret files the encrypted form of the password you know over the top of the encrypted from of the password you don't know - i.e. is there a...
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General discussion • RPI5 runs out of memory while running python script
Hello,I have issue with my RPI5 same on 8GB and 16GB version that while I run my python script for zipping folders with ts chunks (each ts chunk has about 1 MB) and there are about 30 folder and each...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: RPI5 runs out of memory while running python script
Sounds awfully like a memory leak (quite a bad one at that).I'm not a python programmer, but perhaps posting your script will help others diagnose where the fault is.Use [CODE] [/CODE]...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • How to permanently have MotionEye camera stream on a...
I have a RPi 4 with MotionEye which works good.Computers in the same network display camera streaming with no issues for days and days.I have a RPi 3 B+ with Bookworm and a HDMI display connected to...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Pi USB3 Hub and Official Pi Mouse Incompatability
No Pi hub for experiments but have used powered and unpowered hubs with the occasional problem. Disks left plugged in from power down to power up may not mount. Seems to be problem with the badly...
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