Follow-up: a Raspberry Pi setup can be spacious indeed

Had the opportunity to test the #RaspberryPi 5 as a laptop, separately from everything else, and now I agree with the previous response saying it can be as big as a laptop:

https://thebrainbin.org/m/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml/p/655390

I've been wanting to get a Zero 2 but they're basically nonexistent. How likely do we think the Zero 1 to stay in supply? And are they worth getting or should I hold out for the Zero 2 to return? I kinda want to use it in a project but I don't want em to go dead before I can make a couple of units. thoughts?

Some thoughts about the size of a Raspberry Pi

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There's a bit of nuance I don't see being talked about their size and portability that I noticed after going back to mine after a while - they may seem larger due to accessories/cables, but they still take less space than a laptop PC.

Having used mainly laptops so far, I've yet to see any that doesn't take at least 50% more space than a Raspberry Pi in the same conditions, and laptops afaik are historically the portability option for a desktop-oriented experience.

Also, yet to test with a portable screen, so I don't depend on available TVs, but from what I checked on them, they barely seem to affect the space taken either.

Worst part is organizing the cables, specially when using the device, the difficulty to do so causing visual polution which gives the impression of a bigger setup.

But putting tidely in a backpack/bag/etc., and if managing to figure out how to organize the setup when having to use it, makes it still much better for portability than a laptop imo.

And sharing this because, if my impression is correct and there isn't much talk on this part indeed, some people interested because of the size/portability may get disheartened when they see the cables/accessories situation. But it's not bad, but is perfectly manageable and also, repeating myself, possibly the best option around.

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Just spent 2 days trying to play DVDs on Raspberry Pis: remember to configure libdvdcss2

#DVD #RaspberryPi

If you also don't properly configure the dependency, you can run run this command without having to reinstall anything, marking yes for both prompts:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

Before that, I tried a bunch of things, including trying to dump a disc's image with Brasero, and that's when I got the message that led me to finding out the issue and the fix, the message saying it was missing libdvdcss2, despite the dependency being part of libdvd-pkg which I knew I had installed.

Glad it wasn't an issue with either the discs, the system, either of the RPis, or the USB reader/player. e.e"

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Has anyone ever replaced the fan on the Raspberry Pi PoE Hat? I’m one of the hats I have has a fan with a failing bearing and it sounds very loud and irritating.

Apparently the replacement fan part is AD0205MX-K59. But all the public sources I’ve found for that are rather expensive, and would probably cost nearly as much as a new PoE hat itself.

The fan has an odd connector so I can’t easily swap it out for a generic small fan either.

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It did just need to already have an OS on it. I didn't know that, but now it works.

I just got a new Raspberry Pi 3 and i'm trying to set it up now (mostly for Pi Hole). It has a micro SD card (FAT formatted). The only HDMI display i have is an Onn Roku TV, which doesn't detect the Pi plugged in over HDMI. It acts as if nothing was plugged in to the HDMI port.

The SD card in the Pi does not yet have an operating system. I have a Debian installer flash drive and i was planning to do that from the Pi.

I'm not even totally sure the Pi is on, because without a working screen all i have is the red power indicator light.

Is this a known issue between RPI and smart TVs? Am i just not turning it on right? Does it just need to already have an operatng system to boot into?

I have a headless RaspberryPi Zero W that I wish to use as a server for remote printing so my neighbours and myself can have a common printer. The printer unfortunately is an HP LaserJet 1020 - the one my neighbour has happily given to me. But setting it up as a remote printer has been a horrible experience for me.

I'll write down a few of the commands I have tried to get it to work.

First I made sure that the laptop is connected to the laptop with the command :

lsusb

When I could see the HP printer I proceeded with:

sudo apt install cups hplips printer-driver-foo2zjs printer-driver-foo2zjs-common printer-driver-foo2zjs

From my laptop browser, I went to <my.ipv4.address>:631 and added the HP printer. Selected the driver. Checked the Shared Printer option.

Now, I rebooted the pi, re connected the printer, and tried to print something via my Linux Mint laptop. no luck

Then, I read around and found that I need to run the command:

sudo hp-setup

So, I ssh'ed back into the pi and tried to run this command and the entire pi crashed.

Has anyone managed to get this darn machine working nicely?

We're all Linux users, so I don't need to install samba and all that.

Actual working projects, not PoC.

I am thinking of

1. laser trip/motion detection on windows/doors with Wifi/LAN/LTE

2. Door Camera with motion detection and NVR

This has been on my mind alot, but im pretty lonely and depressed to say, i have family members but they dont like what i enjoy like we cant relate to each other usually. I want to make a robot someday that you can play games with, like it can press keys on a keyboard and move a mouse, that type of stuff? The concept seems hard and pricey for someone like me.

Would something like this even be possible in real life? or is it just another dream?

Would it be cheating if im lonely? i feel like this could possibly help people such as myself or people who are disabled in some way.

Im currently making a costum 10x10 led matrix, and for it to be able to display senseable stuff, im trying to segment the display into 10 vertical lines which cycle at at least 100hz. Would a Python script on a raspberry pi be able to cycle its GPIO pins at this speed? Or Would an arduino or other Microcontroller be able to do it better?

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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/38627450

Going kind of crazy thinking about the options. I'm ultimately trying to get a stable media server running on my 4B (no transcoding) and I think I'm having power issues.

I had an externally powered NVMe enclosure but I stopped using it mainly because the enclosure wouldn't turn itself back on after a power surge. I switched to a 2.5 SSD with an unpowered adapter cable but occasionally the drive gets disconnected (guessing it's power issues). I would like to use the NVMe drives since I can easily fit the SSD into my desktop (ran out of NVMe slots). It would also be good if I had a solution that supported hardware RAID 1.

Hello! I've done some troubleshooting on this and i feel like I'm going crazy.

I have a pi 3 B that I got for cheap at a garage sale a while back. It was still in its original packaging - practically brand new. Got around to setting it up yesterday morning and installing raspbian. So far, all good. It boots into Raspbian without issue.

Once in, I connect to the internet and run "sudo apt-get update". The mirrors all 404.

So to make sure I actually have internet, I ping google. No issues there; pings successful.

I try to navigate to raspbian.org on my phone. The website gives me a 502 bad gateway nginx error. So I assume the mirrors are down, but decide to check social media... And nobody is talking about it? Anywhere?

Is raspbian.org not a legitimate website? When I run the update, it seems like its trying to pull from mirrordirector.raspbian.org so I assume so.

So. My questions:

• I've done a lot of googling on updating my mirrors, and have found relatively little. Does raspbian not have an automated mirrors updating tool?
• Is raspbian.org not a legitimate website? If it is, why is nobody talking about it being down? Its been dearly 24 hours. It this regular maintenance?

EDIT:

Turns out the version of raspbian on the SD card this thing came with was so old it just couldn't update lol. Still have no idea what's going on with raspbian.org though lmao

hi, if anyone have those boards, can you please share what score do you get on them - in google octane and mozilla kraken?

I heard varying things, I expect to have like 6-8 people come over in a few weeks and I want to set up lancache.net, but performance wise would it be horrible on a raspberrypi 4? or decent? I heard many things about lancache support on the raspberrypi, so I would like to hear about that too.

I do have a intelnuc as a secondary server but it would be harder to set up lancache on that, also I think I need to get a wifi card to set up a AP network, so would it make significant difference for a 16gb ram and modernish intel cpu to run it?

I made this binary clock as a count down timer for my last day at work.

I used a RPi Pico W with a LED RGB matrix.

As the Pico doesn't have a real time I used the WiFi to get the current time and date.

I have beat my head against the wall on the Raspberry pi forums for hours on this, but I am shocked to find nothing that makes sense.

I KNOW that in Stretch the Raspberry Pi 3B+ is COMPLETELY capable of playing 1080p mp4 with ZERO issues on VLC, because I used it as my media machine for YEARS. No desktop slowdown, no UI issues - just plays the video like I was opening it on a modern multi-core machine. The microSD card that was still in there when I pulled it out still DOES function that way, although it's obviously now an unupdatable security nightmare...

But it seems that every new Raspbian OS update after that... bullseye, trixie... all play video like they're broken lemons. Playing through VLC is still PASSABLE with massive frame drops and awful UI lag, but playing video in a browser just displays solid pink colors, despite hardware acceleration being enabled.

What changed? Is it just the Wayland switch? Is it just impossible to use these things to their full potential anymore? I hate to throw out perfectly good old hardware that clearly CAN perform my use case, because the OS broke compatibility with it.

Can anybody explain what happened, or if it's fixable?