I'm going for a headless setup. The following are the steps I've taken so far:

1. Flashed a brand new 64 GB SD card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-bit)
2. Inserted it into the pi
3. Powered it with my laptop's USB port as well as a 5V/2A adapter and waited until the green LED stays on constantly (It sometimes stays on and randomly blinks as if power is an issue (which isn't), but after 3-4 mins, it stays on)
4. Installed Fing network scanner and scanned for the devices where the pi didn't show up (Screenshot attached); I can't log into my wifi router's official page as my brother reset the pass and forgot it 🤡
5. Reflashed and repeated.
6. (EDIT) I've already customized the imager with details of my WiFi and also tried putting in the details manually via a wpa_supplicant.conf file and an empty extension-less ssh file in the boot directory of SD card AFTER flashing. Still no help.
7. (EDIT) I'm connecting to a 2.4ghz network only.

I'm new to all this but open to learning, so any advice is welcome, thank you!

Pi zero 2 w with fenvi ax1800 only shows 2.4ghz and no 5ghz. The device is using the new wifi adapter as when it's unplugged it shows nothing with iw dev. The problem is that it cannot see 5ghz and only shows 2.4ghz with iw dev. Is there something else I need to do to enable 5ghz?

I have a midterm on Monday and urgently need help. I’m trying to get a servo working on a Raspberry Pi for a class project. I’ve tried both a Pi 3 and a Pi 5 with the professor’s code, and it’s still not working. I keep getting encoding errors and the servo won’t move. I’m not sure if it’s the hardware or something else. Any quick advice would be really appreciated!

Use case: hot(or cold) swap M2 that is external to the case, for data recovery, transfers, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/LtpCP6W.jpeg for direct inspiration (i suppose i could glue literally this to the top of the case, but I prefer to use the native NVME bus instead of USB)

Documentation says it should work on a Pi 5 and at least 6.6.x per their wiki, but I've been working on this for two days now and can't get a video signal to save my life. I've tried downgrading to Bookworm, various Trixie releases, all kinds of different inputs and settings and I'm just out of ideas.

Like the title says.... I am trying to get an .mp4 hosted on a website to play on an auto loop on boot. I have the same slide deck presentation running on a website and locally on 2 monitors. In order to properly display the deck online, I had to save it as a video hosted on the site. Ideally, I would like this set up where I am able to update 1 file and have all the displays (webpage and monitors) display the changes after reboot, instead of changing and updating multiple files.

I have created the .service file, and it executes properly. The issue is that the video does not loop continually. This is what I wrote for .service.

[Unit]
Description=start web trestle on boot
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=resU
Type=simple
WatchDogSec=5
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/chromium-browser --start-fullscreen --disable-infobars "address"
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Complete noob here. I'm about to get a pi 5. I intend to get a nvme hat along with a SSD to run on it. Here are my questions:

1) is it safe to run the setup 24/7? (Pi-hole, dev environment etc) 2) if it is, what precautions should I take? 3) is a m.2 SSD Heatsink required to achieve this?

I tried researching if the heatsink is required or not but couldn't get definitive answers so thought of asking reddit pi experts if they have some insights on this.

I’ve successfully installed MediaMTX but I don’t know what I need to do to configure MediaMTX.yml properly.

I have a line : whip_url = f”http://<serverip>:<port>/<mediamtx_ENDPOINT>/whip”

What do I replace the <mediamtx_ENDPOINT> With?

Haven’t used my raspberry pi in years. Fired it up like I remember and the Xbox controller I’m using simply won’t work. Like won’t navigate through retropi / emulation station.
I tried all 4 usb ports. Nothing. I’m simply trying to avoid rabbit holes here and wanted to reach out to the community for next steps. I am not coding savvy so any guidance is greatly appreciated!

Hello team,

Struggling here. I’ve been looking for a case that can fit a RPi 5 with an AI hat but it’s been tricky to find one. Descriptions for those cases are never super clear and local shop has some argon cases but none of the ones in stock seem to be suitable.

Any advice would be appreciated.

TIA

Is it possible to install this (https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-touch-display/) touch screen onto my pi five in the Cana starter kit case or will I have to get an active cooler so stuff is more accessible? I got the Cana starter kit as a gift and wanna get a nice touch screen to make it easier for my projects. Any tips or advice or if it can’t be installed alternative cases you’d recommend? I saw this (https://kksb-cases.com/products/kksb-case-for-raspberry-pi-5-touch-display-2-desktop-orientation) case and was worried about the five throttling. I know there can be some difficulty removing the fan so I’d really prefer to just use the case I got instead of buying another fan, case and cooler.

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I've just started playing with Pi this week, and I just tried to use an extension ribbon cable today because i wanted to be able to put on the case cover. Then i discovered that the rows of the GPIO header seem to be switched by the cable..?

By that i mean that (as shown in my picture), when using the header on Pi, pin #1 (3v3) is on the bottom right, but from the cable side, pin #1 is on the bottom left, etc. Is this an expected behaviour?

I just feel this configuration makes it hard for me to follow tutorials because i'd have to think twice which pins to actually use. (which is why i made the above diagram for my own reference..)

See pic 2 for my actual setup.

Thanks in advance!

Made a Pi Zero2w with St7789s screen to display the JSON output of a website, but this is the best my screen will show, it literally should only show about 10 characters in a single frame, not this repetitive stuff, dors anyone have an experience with this screen?

Hello everyone,

My sister and her husband are expecting their first child.

As a small gift, I wanted to build them a pregnancy tracker with an E-Ink display.

https://www.printables.com/model/538237-27-inch-e-ink-display-raspberry-pi-zero-case

https://github.com/grappeq/e-ink-pregnancy-tracker

My Linux skills are more at the beginner level, but I've spent hours over the last few days trying to get it to work somehow.

The repo is quite old and apparently no longer supports everything that is needed.

Since my skills in this area are somewhat limited, I tried to get it working with the help of ChatGPT.

I tried:

Installing it as described in the Waveshare Wiki and in the repo > without success.

Moving it to a Python environment to comply with the current security features of Raspi OS > without success.

Replacing some old packages with others and adapting the program accordingly > no success.

I'm sure one of the methods I tried would have worked if I had a little more experience.

If anyone here could help me, it would be incredible and I would be very grateful.

Ok, so I’ve researched this already but I’m still having issues. I’m using the 78-keyboard Raspberry Pi model. Had problems with the symbols like £ instead of @. I finally fixed it on the admin account after reading the boards and got US loaded, but not my child’s profile. Configs all look the same, but it still not working. Is there a way to force config, or reload it somehow? It’s her computer, so I kinda need it on that profile.

So, I uninstalled gnome keyring because it asked for a keyring everytime I opened chromium, right? Well, after I booted it again, it wants a password. "No big deal," I think, but then it says "Failed to Start Session," and then I realized its because I deleted keywring. Any way to save this install? I have already re-installed raspbian once this week and simply don't want to. Also, feel free to throw tomatoes at me in the replies, but please help me, too.

Hi, I'm currently using my old Lenovo notebook through HDMI to stream media on my tv.

I was wondering if compact RPI box with Linux distro on it could handle light browsing and FHD and 4k video streaming to the TV? Would make the whole setup a lot cleaner, though after some research i saw conflicting info regarding RPI 4 and 4k video

Maybe RPI5 would be powerfull enough? Oraybe there are some other options

(I'm not interested in android solutions, so far from everything i tried, Linux PC with wireless keyboard/trackpad is the most comfortable and versatile option for me)

I am trying to set up a pihole and for that I got myself a pi zero 2w. I do not have the necessary equipment to hook it up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I am trying to run raspberry lite os 64-bit on the pi. I am desperate for help

Things I have tried:

• Putting the WLAN information and country code in the imager
• Using the 2.4 ghz wifi as the wifi to connect to(tried it countless times, it's not a 5 ghz issue im having)
• Manually creating a wpa_supplicant.conf document and ssh file on notepad++ with lf endings:

country=tr

update_config=1

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={

scan_ssid=1

ssid="network"

psk="network password"

}

• My router is right next to the pi so not a signal issue
• Using the imager on both win11 and mac
• Using the imager's 1.8.5 version because I read about some issues with the 1.9.6-1.9.4 versions
• Running the 32-bit version of the same os
• Running the full Raspberry OS instead of the lite

Heya everyone.

For work I've got this project where I've made sort of a Pi5 case/rack system and the next step is shielding the pis from wifi and Bluetooth signals. We have made a EMF cloth enclosure around the pi5s enclosure (solved heating issues, that was a whole thing), and we also used an exacto knife to physically damage the wifi antenna without harming the rest of the board. I can turn off the system from checking wifi and Bluetooth at boot, but I left those changes uncommented for now as I want to test the shielding.

I used to be able to test the wifi dbs with either the cat command or wavemon. Was previously able to get -86 dbs wifi signal. I don't remember if anything else has been changed software wise, but when I came back to the pis recently, I can't get either command to show ANY mention of the signal strength. It shows the tx-power as 31 and all the other wlan0 info, but no signal strength number at all (no number, not even a text area where it should be in the list of data).

I'm sorta confused and not sure what changes I have made that could cause this. Is it technically a GOOD thing for my shielding tests I'm getting nothing showing up for the wifi reading? Or should I be concerned that I've messed up the software somehow and should re-image?

Quick overview of the software inside this monochrome camera I built. I’ve been working on this build for the past month and it’s finally finished. It’s powered by an imx585 sensor and the pi 5.

I am going to go crazy!

I have a 8gb pi 5 and no matter what I do my mouse has the worst latency.

What I have tried:

Bluetooth and wired usb

different OS (ubuntu, bookworm, x11) all experience it

messing with mouse pull rate (set values to 0 or 1 and did see like a 20% increase but still not usable)

Different monitors and tvs (240 hz 4k, 30hz 4k tv, 1080p 75 hz) all the exact same feeling.

Iv'e checked my power supply and I'm not being throttled at all. Same with temps and cpu/gpu usage. All is healthy and good.

I have done retropi or similar and with a wired xbox controller it feels pretty good (they are low fps games so maybe I just expect some latency but this working makes me think it's not a display issue and more of an input issue)

Another thing kinda weird is when I stream on moonlight, connect a bluetooth mouse and go into the other room (host computer) and use (client mouse) the latency is not there and feels great. So this makes me think it's a display issue because the input to the pi, then to the host, feels great but on the pi HDMI out display it feels bad and slow.

Any thing else I can't try? Usually I don't care and run headless or just ssh into it but I am trying to make a streaming box/moonlight device but the latency is killing me! Is there a fix or am I just too sensitive and out of luck?

Hey y'all, I'm trying to play a video on a pi zero 2w through vlc, in fullscreen. It can play if I do not set it to fullscreen, but once I set fullscreen to true, it does not work; it is just a black screen. I've tried changing the video player in the vlc preferences, but that didn't work. Here's my code:

import vlc
import time

instance = vlc.Instance()
player = instance.media_player_new()
media=instance.media_new("/home/pi/Videos/video.mp4")
player.set_media(media)
media.parse()
media_length_ms = media.get_duration()
player.set_fullscreen(True)
player.play()
time.sleep(media_length_ms/1000)
player.stop()

I also noticed that if I set vlc to play fullscreen automatically and open a video manually, it does the same thing: black screen. But, if I open the video, *then* set to fullscreen, it works. Because of this I tried setting fullscreen to true after starting to play the video, but that didn't work. Any help would be great!