Most Popular
1500 questions
8
votes
6 answers
Non web-based Twitter Client?
Can anybody point me to a twitter client for the Raspberry Pi?
I'd like to use this for an event that I will be doing IT for. The idea is to have an unattended Rpi hooked up to a projector which will display certain search-terms.
People at the event…
![](./users/profiles/286.webp)
Salim Fadhley
- 2,025
- 4
- 19
- 13
8
votes
1 answer
Netbooting multiple "workers" RPi from a "master" RPi
My question is, I believe, a little bit complex, and I think it would be better to fully describe what I have and what I want to achieve, with what I am able to do.
What I have
I have a group of RPi 3B+, with one RPi serving as a Master of the…
![](./users/profiles/89824.webp)
Longwelwind
- 83
- 1
- 6
8
votes
5 answers
isc-dhcp-server install and run problem
Im trying to set up my pi as an access point with the instructions from Adafruit. However, for some reason, sudo apt-get install isc-dhcp-server always fails. I have looked at this link, but there is a subnet defined in my dhcpd.conf (from…
![](./users/profiles/8120.webp)
calccrypto
- 265
- 1
- 7
- 18
8
votes
2 answers
What Pi Model & OS version is installed
Users often seem confused about what Pi model they have and what OS version is installed or how to find details.
Where is this located?
![](./users/profiles/8697.webp)
Milliways
- 58,054
- 29
- 98
- 195
8
votes
2 answers
How do I set up wireless connections to Raspbian Stretch?
Some tutorials I found are outdated, but the following answer contains a collection of notes I have used to set up home, school(enterprise), & Ad-Hoc wireless connections on my Raspberry Pi 3.
![](./users/profiles/84363.webp)
Ian Zurutuza
- 409
- 1
- 5
- 10
8
votes
3 answers
Disable ALL video outputs and USB Ports. Only remote access
I don't know if this is possible.
I'm hosting a web farm on raspberry pi (for fun).
And one of them is at friend's house. I can access the pi remotely using VNC.
How can i prevent my friend from accessing the PI like plugging it to a screen?
![](./users/profiles/84386.webp)
Marcel
- 183
- 1
- 4
8
votes
1 answer
Raspberry Pi WiFi to Ethernet Bridge for a server?
I wanted to create a Wifi to Ethernet Bridge on my Raspberry Pi, similar to this one.
The problem is: I want to conntect a Network Harddrive (WD MyCloud) to the ethernet side. The Harddrive seems to have internet access from its side but I can't…
![](./users/profiles/83546.webp)
Galevux
- 81
- 1
- 1
- 2
8
votes
8 answers
Setting the time on the raspberry PI - one day out - what gives?
So I understand that the Raspberry PI works some magic with internet servers and whatnot to get its time and that I need to wave some magic dust over the localtime link and possibly /etc/timezoneinfo to get it to work.
The thing is - it seems to be…
![](./users/profiles/3041.webp)
kmp
- 257
- 1
- 4
- 12
8
votes
3 answers
What components would I need for my Pi to safely detect a 12V automotive circuit on GPIO?
I'm rather new to logic circuits and I'm trying to figure out which component I need to complete my project.
I'm attempting to make a backup/reverse camera. When I shift into reverse, 12V is sent to the reverse lights. I'd like the Pi to display…
user82152
8
votes
1 answer
Confirming the I2S pins on Raspberry Pi 3 model B?
I'm having trouble confirming what are the pins used for I2S on Raspberry Pi 3 model B.
First of all, I²S - Wikipedia tells me that in I2S, I'm looking for bit clock (BCLK), word/left-right clock (LRCLK), serial data (SD), and possibly Master clock…
![](./users/profiles/81746.webp)
sdaau
- 201
- 1
- 2
- 7
8
votes
1 answer
Text To Speech Select Output Device
I saw many tts engines, like festival, espeak, etc..
I wanted to know if any of these could select the output device, like an USB sound device. If it's possible, what the command line to make it happens?
![](./users/profiles/7943.webp)
Caio Keto
- 355
- 1
- 4
- 10
8
votes
1 answer
How to shrink root / partition and add a new one
I have a 4 GB SD card with only two partitions
/boot ~50 Mb
/ (root) ~3900 Mb ext4
and I need to shrink the root partition to about 3 GB to use the following schema
/boot ~50 Mb
/ (root) ~3000 Mb ext4
/var ~900 Mb ext4
Then I want to mount /…
![](./users/profiles/7435.webp)
Alessandro Da Rugna
- 1,206
- 3
- 13
- 17
8
votes
1 answer
Howto install UPnP/DLNA media renderer
I'd like to use my raspberry pi as media renderer so I can select playlists on my control point to play music from the media server. I've found some questions to gmediarender but no direct answer how to install it. How can I do that in an easy way?
![](./users/profiles/79866.webp)
Ingo
- 41,647
- 17
- 82
- 193
8
votes
4 answers
How can I check for internet connection before running /etc/rc.local script
I want to use the Raspberry Pi as a VPN gateway. The RPi connects to my home network and the internet via wlan0, and any device plugged into eth0 gets a VPN connection. I am using pptp-linux to make the VPN connection and everything worked fine…
![](./users/profiles/7848.webp)
user7848
- 81
- 1
- 1
- 2
8
votes
2 answers
ffmpeg performance degrades over time
I am using a Pi Zero W with the Pi camera (noir) to stream live to Youtube using ffmpeg.
The command line I am using is:
raspivid -o - -t 0 -h 720 -w 1296 -fps 24 -b 6000000 | ./ffmpeg -ar 44100 -ac 2 -acodec pcm_s16le -f s16le -ac 2 -i /dev/zero -f…
![](./users/profiles/79858.webp)
Matt
- 181
- 4