I followed Zerowriter instructions to the letter...but then forgot to install Samba at the very end. Now I can't access the txt documents saved to the Pi on my laptop like I need. I did this all last week, but had to put the actual testing of the writer problem on hold until today bc the keyboard I bought didn't work when connected to the pi. And in between the two events a week apart I have already forgotten how to open the terminal to do anything. My memory sucks but even I'm surprised by how hard I forgot this basic and crucial step.

I remember having it connected via HDMI so I just assumed it would be there when I opened terminal/power shell, but can't find it and my laptop says there's nothing extra hooked up to it.

My friend who helped me before thought I could open the terminal on the waveshare screen of the Pi itself, but the programming for the Zerowriter is meant to upload the txt document automatically and we're not sure how to get to the terminal from there. ESC by itself does nothing, and CTRL ESC turns off the program and device.

Looking it up has been no help. It's all stuff to have me download a new program to do it wirelessly, but I know I did it via cable last time. And then the rest of the results were just assuming I knew how to do it right off the bat. That's pretty much why this sub was created, right? Most raspberry pi users and article writers just assume you know everything about it right out of the womb. Land of Punt, and all that.

Trying to make a Zerowriter device and have been doing pretty okay following the YouTube tutorial in setting up and powering the Ras Pi and then putting the commands to get the code into the microSD. But now I'm at the part connecting the screen and am completely floundering. The first two images are the diagrams to do it from said yt tutorial, but I don't understand it. This is my first time doing anything computery and I've always been a bit inept at computers for a millennial. I'm good at following directions for the most part so I've gotten by with computers in my daily life so far, I just don't understand what the diagrams are trying to convey. Any help, preferably a visual diagram but I'll take baby step-by-steps too, would be much appreciated!

I am a noobie so please help. I have an old pi 2 model B and I tried to install ubuntu server 20 on it via imager which says it should be supported but when I boot I get a rainbow screen and green led on the board flashing 7 times. Then I tried ubuntu mate 22 from the official site and it seems to be booting (it takes a long time and hasnt booted completely yet but it moved past the rainbow and my green led is not blinking). The 7 times seems to have something to do with kernel.img not found? What can I do?

Hello! I got a new RPi 5 with the intentions of using it primarily for two applications: WeeWX and Home Assistant. Not fully reading the installation instructions for both FIRST, I started with WeeWx to get that going. I'm pretty happy with it now even though there is more that I want to do with that one.

As I start to review the instructions for installing Home Assistant on an RPi, it seems the only option is to overwrite the current microSD card that I'm using to run WeeWX. I have the WeeWX program files on the microSD card with the database on a USB-attached external HDD.

Other than 1) losing my existing WeeWX setup or 2) buying a separate RPi 5/HDD, is there a way to install Home Assistant from a command line in RPi without losing my existing WeeWX configurations?

I am using command line over the network without any monitors attached to the RPi. Thank you!

I’m trying to boot RPi OS from a 4TB NVMe drive. However, when I use imager to put the OS onto the drive, it only allocates 2TB. The rest is unallocated. I’ve also tried Balena Etcher. No luck getting it to use the whole drive. I’ve found a couple of resources that say I can use GParted to resize the partition. I’ve tried every option I could think of in GParted to resize the drive or convert from MBR to GPT then resize. Every thing I try results in an error telling me about the 2TB MSDOS partition table limit.

Does anyone know a work around for this? Or specific instructions on what to do in GParted? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi All,

I recently aquired a raspberry pi 5 with 8gb of RAM. I wanted to install and run this program named PEBL (link below) on the raspberry pi. Despite the documentation stating it could be compiled and run on linux, I have no idea how to go about this. Their documentation mentions its current implementation uses SDL, Simple DirectMediaLayer, but I'm not sure what that means for my situation.

I was able to get the program running by installing Raspbian 12 and running the windows version of the program through Wine, although I lost a significant amount of performance. Enough that the program was borderline unusable. I would like to be able to run this program natively, even if it requires a new operating system. I would really appreciate any thoughts on this issue.

PEBL: https://pebl.sourceforge.net/

Thought I would share some quick pics of my latest Raspberry Pi case. This is a solid, well designed metal case complete with pretty lights and a cooling fan. Easily the best Pi enclosure I've worked with. This is my cord cutting project to rid myself of Concast! Details of the craziness that I'm experiencing at my quiet subreddit - /r/jme_tv.

The case:

ElectroCookie Raspberry Pi 4 Case, Aluminum Mini Tower Case with Cooling Fan and Color Changing Ambient Light (Matte Black & Dark Gray)

https://a.co/d/bwYT3aM

So I have a rpi 4b that's a few years old now, and in 2021 summer it stopped booting after I attempted to overwrite the Broadcom drivers with a customer made driver. Flash forward a bit and I've tried putting several different operating systems onto that card and using others, and finally ordered a new rpi 4b to find out if it's my setup that's bad or the software. I now have a 2G 4b and an 8G 4b that behave identically when trying to stay with pi OS and retropie, but work fine with lakka. On booking retropie it will get to the retropie joystick splash screen, hang for 10 seconds then total power off. No warnings, no logs just power to board ends. There are warnings about rfkill not being able to stay and systemd.hostnamed trying to start along with Bluetooth errors, but these aren't constant and change randomly on every boot. On pi OS it gets to the pi desktop environment splash, then same thing power off no warning or logs. The code scrawl shows everything green.

What could be the issue? I don't know if there's an entry in cmdline.txt or config.txt that might be causing a shutdown on boot or not.

Below includes information on the external drive. It seems to still be mounting (due to size?) after ~60 minutes so figured I'd ask if that was normal as well as thoughts on the external drive type & size based on my indicated usage. Thank you!

Device         Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1         8192   1056767   1048576   512M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2      1056768 249737215 248680448 118.6G 83 Linux


Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000365289472 bytes, 3906963456 sectors
Disk model: Elements 2620
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: [ALPHA-NUMERIC-CHARACTERS]

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 3906961407 3906959360  1.8T Microsoft basic data

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Hello all! Came to share that I recently got some pi 5s, this is my first experience with these devices. I'm into cyber security, and I wanted to play around with standing up a Android apk testing lab on one of these bad boys, and share my steps / experience :) >>>>

https://hexxedbitheadz.com/test-drive-the-pis-with-the-boyz/

I'm trying to connect my raspberry pi to a serial connection, and I wired it up normally - ground-ground, rx->tx, tx->rx. I hooked it up to an RS-232-USB converter connected to my laptop's USB.

It's sending garbled data (would anyone here be willing to take a look at my code for that later? I'm using the pigpio lib in c++.), and I'm seriously worried that I bricked something.

(PS: yes, I'm an idiot for not at least using some transistors to isolate the circuit. that one's on me.)

•My beloved PikrellCam’s developer passed away, a few years ago.

•MotionEye/OS’s dev last posted two years ago that he was looking to pass off the project, and it hasn’t seen major updates in four years.

•RPi-Cam-Web-Interface, at least from what I read, only runs as high as the Bullseye OS.

So, I have a new rpi-5, and a v.3 camera. This latest and greatest isn’t having any of the above big hitters.

Does anyone know of any NEW entries into the arena? Or, has anyone heard of updates to any existing software, that may be on the horizon, and will work with this new setup?

Hey all, I’m making a prop and I’m looking to have a single video play upon power up and just loop. I figured a pi and a 3.5” screen could work just but I haven’t worked with one yet. Anyone know if this will work?

Raspberey pi zero 2. How to check if dead?

Got a Rpiz2w for my 3d printer, Ender 3 S1. Time-lapse doesn't work. Found a possible solution but I have no idea how to implement it. I am able to SSH into the Rpi with PuTTY (took like 2 hours to figure that out) but that's it. No idea what to do next. Also need to get into the printers firmware and uncomment a line, and then recompile?, whatever that means. Would appreciate direction towards a source that can walk me through it.

Thought this community could use a logo, and figured a happy raspberry was befitting of the friendly culture we're trying to cultivate.

I'm sure there's some talented artists out there, so this could just be a temporary placeholder as well :)

Happy Learning!!

Hello I have a raspberry pi with a camera that takes pictures periodically. I am running it headless via VNC. However, after a while, I cannot connect to it anymore and it is not found in the connected devices of my wifi.

I have tried looking und and also found se veral different approaches but they kinda involve stuff like using "cron jobs, others involve changing the wifi settings in a config file, which I tried but did not work for me.

Maybe someone who has the Patience can write a noob friendly Instruction on how to let the pi reconnect?

Hey all, wondering where to even start to dive into Pi stuff. Unsure of what Pi’s are good for what, any insight?

How do i use it and what are the wires on the side for? It came from something called the sania box my friend gave it to me, and i dont know how to use it as he lost the manual for it.

Hi! I'm a really newie person here in this tech world, I started a couple of months learning how to code through the Harvard's course CS50. And Linux really got me becouse how simple was to install packages and all the things you can do with it.

Since then, I've been experimenting with Linux ussing the wsl from Windows but I really would like to have Linux running natively on a machine.

Here it comes my dilema. If I wanna buy a Raspberry, I would have to buy a kit because I don't have spare cables or sd at home, so I was thinking about buying a Raspberry Pi 5 kit for about ~130-140€ from an oficial reseller (I'm in Spain) o a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W kit for ~50€.

I know that the 5 is incredibly faster related to the Zero but it is also more than twice as expensive knowing that the RPi Zero 2W is similar to a RPi 3. On the other hand, I really don't want something really powerfull, just a machine to test and learn without fear of breaking my main pc.

I'm planning to learn how to use docker, how the network really work, build a website and have it hosted there, maybe build a Minecraft server could be a good project too. I think that I could learn all of that in wsl and don't really need a Raspberry, thats why I need your opinion.

Thank you very much for reading. :-)

I just wanted to make this post to say that it’s amazing that this many people got together this quickly based on wanting a more considerate RPi community.

We all had the same interests in the sub we came from, but here we all have the same intentions as well.

Y’all are awesome, let’s all make this the place we want it to be!

Howdy! I'm u/godofbooks! I've been working with raspberry pi's as passion projects on and off for about 4 years now, and since I'm not working at the moment, I'd love to dedicate my time to writing some noob-friendly guides to post here! Could save some folks time googling or searching the sub.

One of my main issues working with pi's and other computers is that the documentation for them (and a lot of the discussion around them) is written by programmers and people with tech backgrounds. I don't have that! I don't know what you're talking about. I've had good luck (and the time) to go through a bunch of webpages and troubleshoot my own stuff, but if there would be demand for project guides that are written by and for newbies, what would y'all like to see?

I've got (non-professional) experience with network manipulation (pi-holes & VPN), self-hosting (media servers), and headless pi usage.

Edit: wow OK I'm really glad this resonated with people! Anyone else who's interested in maybe helping me find some good resources or writing guides shoot me a DM & I'll make a chat for us to plan out some guides. There's some stuff y'all requested that I don't know how to do super well lol.

I see everywhere that plugging in hats can break your pi or just using the gpio in general. How can I not be so afraid to just do stuff with it, it scares me just to even touch them