Raspberry Pi Group

Want recommendations for SSD drive for Pi

I'm after getting a small SSD to boot my Pi 4 from, instead of from the micro SD. Buying USB sticks and drives is fraug...

18 comments posted 4yrs

posted by cl

18 comments posted 4yrs posted by cl

Updated system

Hello All! Problem is now fixed - just needed more than one reboot. Vincent

0 comments posted 4yrs

posted by nospam.Vincent.Coen

0 comments posted 4yrs posted by nospam.Vincent.Coen

Updated system

Hello All! I have just updated to the latest version using the script by Rob ? all when well until I looked at my netwo...

0 comments posted 4yrs

posted by nospam.Vincent.Coen

0 comments posted 4yrs posted by nospam.Vincent.Coen

Re: Raspberry Pi 4's IP Address 169...

> My Raspberry Pi 4 that I got recently has a 169.XX. IP address and I am trying to get it connected to the internet an...

76 comments posted 4yrs

posted by tauno.voipio

76 comments posted 4yrs posted by tauno.voipio

Can CHROME be installed?

Do you know a chance to install GOOGLE CHROME? Chromium does not work here. Thank you :-( FW

17 comments posted 4yrs

posted by me

17 comments posted 4yrs posted by me

Why are Pis in such short supply at present?

It seems almost impossible to buy a Pi 4 for a reasonable price at the moment, why? I know computer hardware is in some...

1 comments posted 4yrs

posted by cl

1 comments posted 4yrs posted by cl

TVHeadend on Pi4, with PCTV 491e DVB-S2 and Hauppauge WinTV DualHD DVB-T2, feeding USB spinning HDD - glitches

I'm getting intermittent continuity errors on tuners connected to TVHeadend on a Pi4. For several years I've been runni...

9 comments posted 4yrs

posted by me

9 comments posted 4yrs posted by me

Aplay without Sudo

I can get Aplay to play a wav file, but only if I use : sudo aplay without sudo, I get : aplay: main:788: audio open er...

31 comments posted 4yrs

posted by bulleid

31 comments posted 4yrs posted by bulleid

Network performance

Hi there ! I'm using a couple of Pi 3B+, most of then running PiOS but one of them running Fedora 33. On all the PiOS o...

4 comments posted 4yrs

posted by usenet

4 comments posted 4yrs posted by usenet

Motion sensor that can "see" through glass

I have grown more and more hard of hearing as I grow older. and I cannot always hear when someone is at the front door....

20 comments posted 4yrs

posted by chrispam1

20 comments posted 4yrs posted by chrispam1

WTF!

I thought this newsgroup was a technical forum connected with a novel small computer. Various uses, ideas and problems....

4 comments posted 4yrs

posted by general

4 comments posted 4yrs posted by general

E-ink calendar and ToDo list

Hello everyone, I'm a new user in this newsgroup. I would like to create a personal google calendar and ToDo list using...

47 comments posted 4yrs

posted by invalid

47 comments posted 4yrs posted by invalid

Pi 4 USB boot now working

Just to report success (at last) with getting my Pi 4 to boot from USB. The problem I was having with the 500Gb USB dri...

1 comments posted 4yrs

posted by chris

1 comments posted 4yrs posted by chris

Pi 4 USB boot works with stick, doesn't work with drive

Well now I'm really stumped. I'm trying to get my Pi 4 to boot from a (fairly small, 500Gb) hard disk. I've tried creat...

14 comments posted 4yrs

posted by cl

14 comments posted 4yrs posted by cl

Does USB boot disk have to be FAT formatted?

I can't find anything in the documenatation that tells me whether a USB boot disk for a Pi 4 has to be FAT formatted or...

1 comments posted 4yrs

posted by cl

1 comments posted 4yrs posted by cl