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TimG

- The LM386 has two audio inputs: inverting and non-inverting. Are they both connected to something? - The speaker output needs a DC-blocking capacitor. - Likely the USB headphone output needs a load. Connect a set of headphones in parallel. If you still get distortion, you may need DC-blocking capa...

TimG

Wow, thanks for the fix, and the build instructions. The updated binary has been running for an hour now with no glitches. Not having to monitor raspistill is going to simplify my code a lot.

TimG

Ah-ha. Yes, I just realised that my crashes are happening every 2^31 us.

$ raspistill -v
"raspistill" Camera App (commit 7cbfbd38d982 Tainted)

TimG

Hi everybody, Running raspistill in timelapse mode I'm encountering freezes and unexpected exits. These happen very regularly, and one of the following always seem to happen (in fact they alternate): - The raspistill process freezes and has to be killed. - The raspistill process gives an error like ...

TimG

Hi andreioniga, Here's the recipe I use with a similar setup (qiv running under X and Raspbian-lite). At least with my monitor, "BlankTime" seems to be the only parameter which really does anything. mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d # disable X blanking chmod a+rx /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d echo >/etc/X11/xorg.c...

TimG

Hi bouwew, I think the " /boot/initrd.img-4.14.79-v7+ does not exist. Cannot update. " message is a hang-over from Debian which expects a different kernel file naming scheme. Use it as a reminder that initrd.img needs to be updated by hand. Probably if you had a copy of initrd.img named with the app...

TimG

In addition to Gordon77's comment, the read-back to GPIO12 mustn't be more than 3.3V.

TimG

The essential soldering accessory is a brass-wool tip cleaner. Forget sponges and that weird gunge that comes in a little tin.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sold ... ip-cleaner

TimG

RDPUser wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:27 pm
So to secure against this "cold boot SD-Card swap attack" a few lines of code are sufficient.

It sounds like a generous layer of epoxy would be just as effective.
Forcing the agents of the deep-state to resort to alternative decryption techniques: https://www.xkcd.com/538/

TimG

I think it's likely your Pi is fine, and your problems are caused by bad cables. But without a multimeter it's difficult to make any suggestion.

TimG

This should have been for /etc/fstab. Good catch. That seems to be a copy-paste error. I've corrected the code in the post above. (In any case that should not prevent the root partition being made read-only.) Also the procedure is missing the part about adding "overlay" to "hook-functions". This is...

TimG

Hmm. I still think you may have a poor ground connection between the TV and the Pi... and when you power from the TV the USB cable restores the ground connection. It could be a bad HDMI cable, or a bad HDMI adapter. Try this: Connect the Pi to the TV's HDMI, and to the 5V power supply. Turn on the T...

TimG

It certainly sounds like a power problem, though it's difficult to say what the cause is. The first things to try are an alternative power supply and another TV. Some TVs have a very poor ground, and this could cause problems when connected to other equipment. If you can get hold of a multimeter you...

TimG

To be robust against unusual kernel installations, I came up with this to extract the kernel version directly from the .img file. #!/bin/bash # extract kernel version from zimage file # kernel name if [ "$(uname -m)" == "armv6l" ]; then file=/boot/kernel.img; else file=/boot/kernel7.img; fi echo "ke...

TimG

It must be possible, but I haven’t found a practical way of doing it yet. This is an admittedly-inelegant work-around:

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kver=$(dpkg -L raspberrypi-kernel |perl -ne 'if (/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)(-v7)?\+$/) { print "$1"; exit; }')
kver=$kver$(uname -r |perl -pe 's/\d+\.\d+\.\d+//')

TimG

This may be relevant -- it's the script I use to create a read-only root, based on the recipe by ejolson. It detects the correct kernel version even after an apt-get upgrade. There are a few other alterations: It automatically deals with ARM-v6/v7; it puts the overlay scripts in /etc rather than /us...

TimG

Yeah, that's what I was trying to avoid. Partly because I'm not awfully fluent with Python, and partly because my script does lots of shell stuff. I think I've found another way of doing this: #!/bin/bash gpio -g mode 22 up gpio -g wfi 22 falling& # background process ends after button press PIDBUTT...

TimG

Can anybody tell me how to read out GPIO state-changes asynchronously (preferably in a shell script)? I'm trying to detect short button-pushes from inside a relatively slow loop, and I'd rather avoid creating a separate process for GPIO readout if I can. It seems like pigpio can do this via notifica...

TimG

To prevent the automatic re-partitioning from taking place on first boot, edit cmdline.txt to remove the "quiet init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh". Once this is done you can re-partition by hand and save the resulting disk image. Or you can alter /usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh to do wh...

TimG

Take a look at the Pimoroni Automation pHAT

TimG

Could well be a power problem — either supply or cable. Check with

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vcgencmd get_throttled

More info here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 50#p972790

TimG

Rainbow, is this the sort of thing you’re looking for?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3352

TimG

Locally there’s Prodimex.ch, which is a large shop selling computer components. Digitec.ch has a shop in Geneva now, though you need to order online prior to pickup. Online there’s Pi-shop.ch. UK online suppliers such as Pimoroni.com and Thepihut.com have a wider choice and sometimes better prices. ...

TimG

Surely if you don't remove the 7s the recipe has no effect on a Pi Zero? I just tried an ARMv7 kernel on my Zero and as expected it would not boot.

TimG

Thanks!

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