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by matt@shagshaw.com
Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:28 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Webcam frame rate is very low!
Replies: 1
Views: 291

Re: Webcam frame rate is very low!

I am also interested in setting this up, and have the same camera, watching keenly for replies!!!
Thanks.....
by matt@shagshaw.com
Wed May 15, 2019 10:07 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Powering the Pi and touchscreen
Replies: 12
Views: 712

Re: Powering the Pi and touchscreen

Ok, making up a lead at work tomorrow to plug into pins 2 and 9, thanks for your excellent help......
by matt@shagshaw.com
Tue May 14, 2019 8:47 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Powering the Pi and touchscreen
Replies: 12
Views: 712

Re: Powering the Pi and touchscreen

Excellent.

Thanks to Andyroo and Burngate. Will just modify my USB cable and add the header things so I can plug directly on to the gpio.....
by matt@shagshaw.com
Tue May 14, 2019 7:10 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Powering the Pi and touchscreen
Replies: 12
Views: 712

Re: Powering the Pi and touchscreen

@Burngate Thanks for your help

So pin 2 & 6 are connected to the touchscreen, so I guess I can connect + to pin 1, and use a different ground, either pin 9 or 14 ????
by matt@shagshaw.com
Tue May 14, 2019 3:15 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Powering the Pi and touchscreen
Replies: 12
Views: 712

Re: Powering the Pi and touchscreen

No, the best connection would be for me to go onto the GPIO, which is currently used by the screen connections.

All I was asking I guess was that can I double connect the power to the GPIO pins 1 & 6 or 2 & 6 to provide power for both the Pi and screen ????????
by matt@shagshaw.com
Mon May 13, 2019 2:46 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Powering the Pi and touchscreen
Replies: 12
Views: 712

Powering the Pi and touchscreen

So I have my pi and official touchscreen in the car, running the awesome Crankshaft NG for Android Auto !!!! Check it out, it's ace !!!! getcrankshaft.com The only issue I am having is powering it, the connection is awkward connecting into the Raspi micro usb connector, and I would prefer to connect...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:01 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Media center build
Replies: 7
Views: 7394

Re: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Media center build

try the mediapi case, I have one, its awesome



Matt
by matt@shagshaw.com
Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:48 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Powering gaming Raspberry Pi 3 and official Touchscreen
Replies: 1
Views: 383

Powering gaming Raspberry Pi 3 and official Touchscreen

Hiya So I am running a Raspberry Pi 3, with an official 7" touchscreen, in a nice case that I got. Now I want to power it with a battery/phone charger. I have tested with a couple of the small chargers as below, but that gave me 1hr 43 min, and another about 2hours https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazo...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Mon Feb 12, 2018 11:12 pm
Forum: Official Foundation Display
Topic: SOLVED - Official 7" Touchscreen
Replies: 6
Views: 2111

Re: Official 7" Touchscreen

Hi guys Think I just sorted it !!!! So to help anyone else out there that suffers from this I read the Downloads page on Raspberrypi.org, which mentioned to extract the img from the zip using 7-Zip, I did so, and burned it to the sd using etcher.io, and it booted into the gui desktop straight away !...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:42 pm
Forum: Official Foundation Display
Topic: SOLVED - Official 7" Touchscreen
Replies: 6
Views: 2111

Re: Official 7" Touchscreen

So this just keeps getting stranger and stranger. I have now hooked up the pi to the main TV, which is 1920x1080 and works with 2 other raspberry pi's perfectly. I recreated the sd card from image, so its a brand new install. I am using an official raspberry pi psu. I have a keyboard and mouse plugg...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:38 pm
Forum: Official Foundation Display
Topic: SOLVED - Official 7" Touchscreen
Replies: 6
Views: 2111

Re: Official 7" Touchscreen

@scotty101
That is not the case, it is definately going into X because the ssh/password change dialogue is graphical, and the cursor is following my finger on the touchscreen, it is not at the command line.
by matt@shagshaw.com
Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:07 am
Forum: Official Foundation Display
Topic: SOLVED - Official 7" Touchscreen
Replies: 6
Views: 2111

SOLVED - Official 7" Touchscreen

My lovely gf bought a new Pi3 and the official 7" touchscreen for christmas, what a gal !!!! I got it going with some guides I managed to find on the internet, the official link on the box didn't bring me to a dedicated webpage with how to configure it. No official manual in the box. I think the fou...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Wed May 17, 2017 11:01 pm
Forum: Networking and servers
Topic: Wifi !!! Pulling my hair out !!!
Replies: 6
Views: 926

Re: Wifi !!! Pulling my hair out !!!

Sorry Guys

Schoolboy error !!! Updated to Jessie, and used my official Raspi power supply, guess what, Official Wifi dongle is working fine now !!!

Just need to get my system back as it was.......MPD/Conky music player !!!!
by matt@shagshaw.com
Fri May 12, 2017 4:31 pm
Forum: Networking and servers
Topic: Wifi !!! Pulling my hair out !!!
Replies: 6
Views: 926

Re: Wifi !!! Pulling my hair out !!!

I said in previous post, its the intial issue, a 1B . Its running Wheezy, and does what it does fine, didn't want to upgrade and lose all of my config

Thanks so far!!!
by matt@shagshaw.com
Fri May 12, 2017 11:21 am
Forum: Networking and servers
Topic: Wifi !!! Pulling my hair out !!!
Replies: 6
Views: 926

Wifi !!! Pulling my hair out !!!

Hiya, i have a Raspi Model B initial issue, running wheezy. I use it for MPD music. It runs fluxbox, not gnome or kde, and conky to display current track and artwork info on a little screen, running fine on ethernet. I have also bought the official wifi dongle. Having a right game getting the wifi c...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:13 pm
Forum: Graphics, sound and multimedia
Topic: MPD connection in car. Client won’t connect if phone data on
Replies: 7
Views: 1208

Re: MPD connection in car. Client won’t connect if phone dat

Hiya I am looking at doing this soon, but I have planned it in my head a different way. I am going to turn on my phone tethering, and set a permanent address on the Pi within the same range. My phone assigns out dhcp as a hotspot in the 192.168.43.X range (from memory), I tested this with my windows...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:32 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: Photo Frame with multiple items at once
Replies: 2
Views: 905

Re: Photo Frame with multiple items at once

Use conky, its easily installable :

apt-get update
apt-get install conky

Then configure to your liking, its really powerful

Matt
by matt@shagshaw.com
Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:28 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: Poss 2Play & Record Live TV? Wi-Fi Ability & Play TV Catchup
Replies: 26
Views: 15660

Re: Poss 2Play & Record Live TV? Wi-Fi Ability & Play TV Cat

Hiya XBMC is exactly what you are looking. I run XBMC on an ubuntu PC, and use the TVCatchup plugin, it gives you most of the UK freeview channels for Live TV as you requested, other plugins are available for internet streams and on demand TV, no dvb-t card required. But you may require an MPEG2 lic...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:30 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: My new Raspberry Pi Bartop Arcade cases
Replies: 23
Views: 23301

Re: My new Raspberry Pi cases

Hiya

I would have 2 or 3 of these off you if you can produce a kit.....one for a mini-itx board I have, and one for
a raspi.

Where in the world are you located ???

Matt
by matt@shagshaw.com
Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:56 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Pi as a car audio head unit
Replies: 6
Views: 10831

Re: Pi as a car audio head unit

I use the awesome mpd on my pi at home, and the equally awesome mpdroid app installed on my android tablet to control it. there are loads of different clients to control it from normal browser based, to iphone etc...... As previous entry states, set up the pi as a access point, and connect with your...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Wed Aug 07, 2013 11:20 am
Forum: Graphics, sound and multimedia
Topic: MPD Web control
Replies: 4
Views: 10623

MPD Web control

Hiya I have MPD and apache installed on my raspi, using the excellent mpdroid on my tablet to control it. Unofrtunately mpdroid doesnt seem to support my playlists for a few radio stations.... so I was wondering if one of you lovely pi people could help me. I have done website html coding for years,...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:17 pm
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: RAPIRO as amazing cute robot project
Replies: 8
Views: 1780

Re: RAPIRO as amazing cute robot project

Whilst this is a great project, but £200 ???? Way too expensive when you see that all you get is a 12'ish inch high plastic shell, a circuit board, some cabling and servos .... IMHO I am not into robotics at all, but how much would the price of servo's of the sizes in rapiro be ??? I am also prepare...
by matt@shagshaw.com
Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:40 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Weather and info display
Replies: 9
Views: 7984

Re: Weather and info display

a program called feh is the answer

i think it gets installed with x, but if not sudo apt-get install feh

its an easy to use file viewer (ie. man feh)
by matt@shagshaw.com
Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:57 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: Sky+ Siri controller
Replies: 3
Views: 1588

Re: Sky+ Siri controller

This sounds really good, can you give us more info on this ????

Or a link to an actual webpage with info ?????

Thanks...........
by matt@shagshaw.com
Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:47 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Portable karaoke machine
Replies: 15
Views: 16233

Re: Portable karaoke machine

Hey

Thanks dextrus, did an apt-get update, followed by an apt-get upgrade, then did apt-get install pykaraoke and worked perfectly........

@dextrus......sorry about before

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