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paddyg

You look to have an extra os call that might be confusing things. When I've got GPS fixes I've just read nmea from the serial. But prob not feasible with hat. In your case, if you can't get the GPS python library to work then you could call the command line you know works and capture the output. I w...

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Yes points certainly work using non-immediate mode drawing (glDrawElements/glDrawArrays) but I've not tried it using the glBegin etc (mainly because that would stop the code working on the legacy OpenGLES2.0 on old RPis, as I understand it). In your picture it looks like the point is being drawn but...

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I would have thought potentiometer would be read with AtoD. Is it an encoder? Do you have a part number or link to docs? If it's something like an encoder then it's best to trigger a function on change of GPIO and you have to assume that each 'edge' of the square wave consist of hundred of tiny open...

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I'm not sure how much the python "array" is used now. Python modules that use arrays seem to expect numpy ndarrays i.e. If you want to do very fast processing on arrays with numba then you will need to convert lists to numpy arrays when you pass them to @jit functions... but if you need an array tha...

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Harking back a few posts to the "why not invent a new language that beginners can use (like python) but takes advantage of multithreading." That's already been invented and it's... python. Libraries such as numpy, tensorflow, numba and others spot opportunities for parallel processing and "just do i...

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There's quite a good description here. http://mattrichardson.com/Raspberry-Pi-Flask/ - of the web server end. Lots of stuff on pyserial generally available, though you might have to run that as another thread..

paddyg

Maybe you could cludge a kind of global lock ... def get_sht3x_temp(): global sht3x_lock for _i in range(5): # or whatever retry and 'not available' system you want to use if sht3x_lock time.sleep(0.5) else: break if sht3x_lock: return {'fTemp':-666, 'humidity':-666} sht3x_lock = True # SHT31 addres...

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@neilgl yes that looks to be the case - still odd that the error isn't can't import name 'Firebase'. Still it would be sensible to open a python terminal and try a few imports etc.
>>> import firebase
>>> dir(firebase)

paddyg

does everything need to be run as root (that often causes problems)? Better to "pip3 install firebase --user" which prompts the next question. Did you actually have "install" in your pip3 command? It's missing from your description of what you did. What messages did you get on screen after you insta...

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Just for completeness, and to follow up on @Paeyrn's very good point about copying lists with [:] (which I admit I hadn't really thought about). It occurred to me that the tidiest way to do what the OP intended might be to mark instances of Invader and Bullet with a dead flag, and not attempt to del...

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@hamilc, I know it's frustrating not to jump straight in and make something useful... However, if you've decided to make a project using python, I would strongly recommend spending a day or two working through an introductory course. Lots available including ones on this website.

paddyg

This seems to work ok i.e. client = mqtt.Client() creates an instance of the mqtt.Client class which can subsequently be used (set id and pw then connect etc). Passing args as client_name will assume it's the first arg i.e. client_id so you have to set that variable correctly.

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and it *seems* to behave. However I'm not sure I would trust it in all circumstance!

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Yes, @scruss is probably right. I think I wouldn't save the image but capture to numpy array then convert to PIL Image . I don't know if that will then have exif editing available (or if it's tied up with jpeg). I check it out later if I get chance. Paddy PS I think reading the exif info is a lazy o...

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As of last Tuesday night python2 has reached end of life, so unless you have a burning need to use it I would suggest switching to python3. I don't have the exact code you're using but I found an approximation to the listing below elsewhere on this forum and it seems to work on this laptop with pyth...

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PIL which is actually Pillow and installed on default raspbian can get most exif data pretty well. Here is a rather complicated demo but the actual exif bit is quite simple. https://github.com/pi3d/pi3d_demos/blob/master/PictureFrame.py around line 139 and 166. The version of Pillow on buster is qui...

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You can read and write into the middle of a file but you would have to have a scheme for keeping track of the data in a structured form. That's what a db would do for you. If it's only a small amount of data read and write it into a variable using pickle or json. Or csv as suggested.

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Components still there but it needs an enthusiastic ringleader.

paddyg

That looks an odd error message. Let me see what the lines around 161 look like in your version of PictureFrame.py, maybe something sneaked in while you were editing. They should be random.shuffle(temp_list_first) random.shuffle(temp_list_last) file_list = temp_list_first + temp_list_last else: file...

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Glad you got it working and glad you like it. That glGetError 0x500 means that at some point (prior to the previous call to glGetError()) an instruction to the GPU used an invalid enumerant. That translates as meaning one of the values passed to one of the OpenGL(ES) function didn't match whatever i...

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@atpost, It looks to be the keyboard input that's causing the problem (it uses curses - good name!). I meant to make that optional in the last release but it must have slipped through. In the mean time you can comment out the keyboard stuff like this (this is a 'diff' showing just what changes befor...

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Hi, yes the 'layer' options is specifically the dispmanx layer so I wouldn't expect it to have any effect unless using the bcm drivers (aka legacy) on the RPis prior to v4. When you test your code on the RPi3 are your using fake KMS? As we discussed back on page 1/2 of this thread it would be nice t...

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Yes I think there are a few and I would suggest googling. The first one I found was called fake_pi

paddyg

Do you need to set the global light_on True? You might need to put your actions into functions and run them in threads to stop the whole thing getting stuck in a flashing light loop. I think you have to put global as the first line of the function. Finally I think you can pass a list to gpio.setup s...

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So it's quite an obvious problem - once you know what it is! I just tried your code on my RPi and (after I struggled to get the internal pull-up to work at all, not sure what that's about. More investigation needed) I had exactly your problem. Then when I tried typing the mpg123 etc on the command l...

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