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The official Pi foundation camera mounts the right way up. I would say the case was designed with that camera in mind. Anything else will be hit or miss, miss in your case. Thats the way it goes some times.

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If thats just a pass through stacking header on the HUB board, soldering is not the issue. Thats what it looks like to me? If all that is on that board is a USB hub all that is being used on the GPIO is maybe +5v and ground, and if you had those shorted out the Pi wouldn't work. I see the PWR LED li...

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I have the Pimoroni Full Pan Tilt kit. My camera is mounted upside down, ribbon cable exits out the top. I just rotate the image 180 in Motion Eye to make it right side up again. I also swapped out the stock 6 inch cable for an 8 inch cable, no worries of it kinking etc when paned or tilted fully.

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A friend of mine has one of those night vision cameras with the IR LEDs. He loaned it to me so I could check it out. It wasn't too bad in the dark. One issue I had while trying it out was reflections when I put it in the window to look outside. Just a blinding glare on the window glass. My current ...

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A friend of mine has one of those night vision cameras with the IR LEDs. He loaned it to me so I could check it out. It wasn't too bad in the dark. One issue I had while trying it out was reflections when I put it in the window to look outside. Just a blinding glare on the window glass. My current p...

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There is a Pi 4 version of Motion Eye. I haven't run it on my Pi 4 yet though. I'm using mostly 3A+'s. The latest release has support in it for Pimoroni's Pan Tilt Hat, of which I have one. It was a pain to setup but I got it working. Fully usable via the WEB GUI interface. I'm toying with getting a...

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I can't help with building the prototype boards, but have a look at this, it "might" be better suited to what your doing. You'll have to decide if it makes things easier or harder.

It's a proto hat designed for the Raspberry Pi.
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2310

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I did it to my fan shim. The fan not turning off kind of bugged me. The button on the fan shim grounds GPIO 3 when pressed and can be used to turn your Pi on off. Its what I'm using for my on off button.

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One way to stop the fan on shut down is to wire a 10 K resistor between the fan control pin BCM 18, physical pin 12, and ground. It will act as a pull down resistor and turn the fan off when Raspbian shuts down. Auto control will still work once Raspbian boots up and the daemon starts. It will turn ...

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Likely not what your looking for but my new SmartiPi V2 case works with a Pi 3 or Pi 4. They even include two power Y splitter cables. One for use with a USB C power supply and one for use with a Pi 3 Micro USB power supply. Things look to be getting better compatibility wise. It also has an optiona...

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Thin wires is not the way to go, you want 18 AWG or thicker wires to prevent excessive voltage drop across them.

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Try a different SD card. What size is the current card by the way?

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Open a terminal window and run the following

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sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Then add the following line.

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dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown,gpio_pin=17,active_low=1,gpio_pull=up

ctrl + x, y enter, and reboot, done deal.

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Dental floss can also be used to remove the heat sink. Just stretch it between the heatsink and SOC, and pull it back and forth is a sawing motion. It will cut the pad in half and won't leave a mark on anything. Then just peel off what's left of the thermal pad with your finger nail etc. A plastic c...

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I have Zero's in a bunch of Pi projects. An Internet Radio. It takes a little while to boot up but once its running its more than capable of playing some tunes. I also have some in rovers, they are an advantage in battery powered builds. I also have a couple of A+'s on the go here. I like that squar...

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For what its worth my Pi 4 works just fine with the Official Pi Foundation 3A USC C power supply, and the Official 2.5A Micro USB power supply. I am of the opinion that 3A is iffy though, if you have a few devices connected like displays etc that want thier power from the Pi's USB ports etc..

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I just recently bought a SmartiPi V2 touch screen case. It comes with two Y cables. One is Micro USB in to two Micro USB out. It for using a Pi 3 and the 7 inch touch screen on the one Pi 3 power supply. The other is USB C in and one USB C out, and one Micro USB out. For use witha Pi 4 power supply...

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I just setup a new Pi 4B with the official 7 inch touch screen in the new SmartiPi V2 case. Display ribbon cable is on the bottom. Just a FYI post. It's a nice quality case, the assembly instructions leave something to be desired though.

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I just recently bought a SmartiPi V2 touch screen case. It comes with two Y cables. One is Micro USB in to two Micro USB out. It for using a Pi 3 and the 7 inch touch screen on the one Pi 3 power supply. The other is USB C in and one USB C out, and one Micro USB out. For use witha Pi 4 power supply,...

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Software installs are getting easier with some retailers. I buy a lot of Pimoroni stuff and they have one line installers for a lot of what they sell. Works for me. That might not appeal to those that want to know what's going on in the background. Or want to do a custom install. Pimoroni also have ...

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I have a pHat Beat setup as an Internet Radio. It has buttons for the volume up down change channel etc. I wired up my own mini arcade buttons to make life easier. The buttons on the pHat Beat are really small and hard to access with my setup. Its in an old subwoofer box. It is I believe VLC Radio. ...

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I have Motion Eye OS running on a couple of Pi 3A+'s. One has a pan tilt camera setup. Mine are all inside my house in Pimoroni Pibow Coupe cases. They all stream locally over WIFI over my network. No having to go to the internet first to be watched. Pi foundation V2 cameras running at 720P60. Its w...

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Excuse me but the title is Raspberry Pi4B, not some wonderful stupid and idiotic I want, need, desire, must have, the RPF / RPT will die without this feature. Please can this get back on topic :roll: :roll: I was talking about the Raspberry Pi 4B. So I was on topic. Being able to plug your Hat in u...

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I expect fruit is harking back to the halcyon days of page 13 or so in this thread, where people started saying just those sort of things, until JamesH got (rightfully) grumpy. Wouldn't an upside-down HAT be a HAB? That's fine, just don't quote me and imply that I said it? The Hat would still be ri...

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What I'd like to see is a no GPIO header installed version of the Pi 4, like the PI Zero without header. That would let you mount a Hat etc underneath it instead of on top of it. Put a female header on the back side of the Pi instead of a male on top. Or us a stacking header and do both, POE hat on...

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