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I've found a way to get the HDMI working on a NexDock (v1). It may help with others that are having similar problems with other HDMI devices. When connected to the NexDock then I just got a blank screen. It appears to be a problem with the Pi (Raspbian) reading the EDID information from the screen. ...

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After a lot of work trying different configurations I finally found a working solution. Not only did I have to find a suitable resolution, but I had to disabled the edid from being read from the screen. These are the entries in my /boot/config.txt for anyone else that has similar problems. hdmi_igno...

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Has anyone got the Raspberry Pi 4 working with the 1st generation NexDock (2nd generation expected in a couple of months time)? If so what settings are you using on the Pi? When I try the screen is being detected (as the screen goes brighter and does not time out), but nothing is displayed. No colou...

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I'd suggest using IP address for now, until you have got it working properly. You should also try with a PC to make sure it's working correctly prior to using a phone as phones have limited troubleshooting tools (unless installed separately), and phones may use smart-switch and so drop WiFi connecti...

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MOSFETs are switched based on voltage (actually charge) rather than current, so there is only a tiny current that will normally flow between the gate and source. The MOSFET it turned on by having a voltage at the gate that exceeds the threshold voltage. The maximum current that can be drawn does dep...

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I have used the online version in Raspbian (I used that during the Beta testing). It's not just taking Scratch offline (although that is one thing), but having the ability to access the GPIO which we have on Scratch 1.4 and Scratch 2. That is the killer feature allowing it to be used with physical c...

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The GPIO ports on the Raspberry Pi are low voltage & low current ports. If you just want to create one or two LEDs then you can connect them directly to the GPIO using a suitable resistor, but if you want to switch multiple LEDs then you may need to use a separate supply. (Sounds like you've worked ...

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Your question is very vague. What have you created so far? Have you tried searching for some tutorials that can help? Web Server Are you running a web server? If so try searching for how to run a script in your webserver and have that script take a value from a form submission and write that to a fi...

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For a simple interface then big buttons that need to be clicked with a mouse work well. I've created touchscreen apps using Pygame, Pygame Zero and through a webbrowser interface driven using a Python Bottle webserver. You just need to consider the size of the screen you are targetting and making su...

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Now that Scratch 3 has been released are there any plans for a Raspberry Pi (Linux) version of the Desktop version? Scratch 3 can be run through a browser today, but the desktop version is required for offline use and to support physical computing using the Raspberry Pi GPIO ports? If so is there an...

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First a disclaimer - always be legal! You may need to check what the law says about recording calls. It sounds like you should be okay with what you are planning, but even if recording your own calls you may have a legal obligation to warn others when you are recording the calls. Whether it's possi...

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I can't comment much about paintball. Last time I took part in a paintball I took a shot in the head which was incredibly painful! Showing a timer should be fairly straight forward. To create a view of the battlefield then I'd suggest something like pygame zero, which makes creating a GUI easier tha...

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The GPIO pins operate differently depending upon whether they are configured as an input or an output. When using the GPIO pin as an output then they can provide a reasonable current (enough to light an LED with appropriate resistor), but when they are configured as an input they will not provide an...

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Presumably you are using the DHT11 - rather than DH11. That particular sensor only has a small range of around 20cm when run at 3.5V. If connecting to the GPIO 3.3V then that will likely drop off sooner. Using a 5V supply may not help either as you still need to use 3.3V for the pull-up resistor to ...

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Any manner to change it defaulting Python 3 as main Shell ?? Is that really what you want to do, as that will break it when you run from the shell as well as from the python shell? If so then the version of python that runs is based on a link in /usr/bin - so that when you run /usr/bin/python it ca...

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There is nothing in the documentation that provides an option to turn-off the fullscreen, but it should be possible by modifying the source code. It looks like you need to edit the file PiClock/PyQtPiClock.py Near the end of the file is a line: w.showFullScreen() remove that line by commenting it ou...

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I've only run Octoprint on a Pi 3.

Considering a Pi3 costs about the same as 2 reels of PLA then it may be worth upgrading if you are struggling with performance running it on older hardware.

Although saying that it sounds like it may be your 3D printer as much as a problem with Octoprint.

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OpenCV is a library for processing image data. The cloud in this case is anything that's on the Internet. So is that just the same as saying how can I put some kind of data on the Internet? If so then you could either make your Pi accessible from the Internet (port forwarding on your local router an...

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I'm not familiar with 433Utils, but it looks like it's a basic library for sending short command codes rather than transmitting data. It looks like it sends integer values as the command codes. Presumably you could use that to send whatever data you wanted as long as the client and server are talkin...

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Has anyone experienced any issues when using Python Bottle which results in extremely poor performance and/or system instability? I have a problem with a program I'm writing using Python3. It's a fairly complex bit of code involving Python Tk, which uses python urllib to connect to a webserver using...

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As an alternative I've written a guide to starting tightvnc at startup, it uses a systemd startup file, which is the same way that other services are started on the Raspberry Pi.

http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/tightvnc

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It could be a faulty SD card, but you may get similar issues if you don't have enough power. Make sure that you have a decent power supply able to provide at least 1A.

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Could the LED strip be trying to pull more than the 720mA? I've seen other types of LED bulbs where they have quoted the amount of power used by the LED bulbs, but not included power lost in the resistors included in the lights. This could mean that it is pulling more power than the USB hub is able ...

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It looks like OpenELEC has been replaced on NOOBS with LibreELEC. See more about LibreELEC here https://libreelec.tv/about/ It sounds like some of the developers from OpenELEC have moved to LibreELEC, but both projects are being developed. Other than that I don't know much about the reasoning / poli...

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I have written a guide at: http://www.penguintutor.com/electronics/rpirobot

It was written before GPIO Zero which could be used to make the code a bit easier to learn, but it should give you a good idea of how to get started.

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