Beginners • Re: what happened to raspi-gpio?
Hobbyists can be a bit more forgiving of such things, but we also have industrial customers and telling them "just re-do everything differently" is not a good way to retain them.That is exactly what I...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: kiosk mode starts after the GUI
You may not be able to avoid the race condition. However, if the user that's logged in is a limited user, with highly restricted access, there's not too much that they can actually do to harm the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Looking for RaspiOS Buster image(s) (and other questions)
Yeah, a little digging from your URL got me to this:http://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspbian/images/which seems to have everything up to sometime in 2020.Also, I did a little testing, and the answer...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi Imager broke SD Card reader?
Yes; however, on Windows, ejecting media does not normally unmount the drive, it simply ensures that all buffers are flushed and it's safe to remove the media.I guess it depends on what one considers...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Can't get the rpi imager to work with Ubuntu 20.04
Thanks for all the help and information. I think I'm done with the latest OS and I don't really want to do that much with a RPI. My best application talked to an Android phone running Jelly Bean and...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Brand new install corrupted on update
Is there a problem with 12/5/2025 64bit Trixie release file for RPI3B+?I am installing 64bit Trixie to multiple RPI3B+ units and multiple SD cards (new). With the 12/5/2025 release using RPI Imager...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi 5 8gig reliability
Afternoon all,How are people finding the reliability of the Pi5 8 gig. I have used a Pi400 before and was excited to get a new 5 but have had consistent issues with the unit.I am running it with a...
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Beginners • Re: Custom Layout for Squeekboard
Yeah, I tried that.I edited the de_wide.yaml in /usr/share/misc/squeekboard/keyboards and I also added the folders squeekboard/keyboards under ~/.local/share/ and placed an edited version of...
View ArticleBeta testing • Re: rpi-swap (Trixie only) - zram-based swap
Thank You for trying to help.If it helps: It was a clean install, from the 1.3gig image, all I did is updated it to the max with the down arrow.When I tried to create the file you mentioned, I had the...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: What product would you like to see?
In terms of accessories and partner product where there's a quick buck to be made by slapping a Raspberry Pi logo on an OEM product I don't see much left that they haven't already done. A DC-input...
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General discussion • Re: Cosmetic flaw on the Imager UI with the mouse
Why does Pi Imager only allow loading or saving from drives which are physically present on the host - C: and D: here -And not those which are mapped or networked as most other load and save dialogues...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Request advice on choice of SSD for Pi5
I would like to get a 500GB NVME SSD for a Pi5, but I have availability and budget constraints.My concern is that I've been told to stay away from NVMe 3 drives and ones that use Phison controllers...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Sata SSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with USB adapter
Been discussed plenty of times already on the forum. A quick search would have given you the answer already !It depends on the drive power requirement, if other devices are connected or not. So...
View ArticleOther programming languages • Re: Trying script to get motionEye alerts on...
Interesting.My MotionEye almost crashed and burned when my email provider upgraded to OAuth2.0 and it filled up with email alerts and collapsed. I ended up having to write an email relay program that...
View ArticleAutomation, sensing and robotics • Re: Looking for a proximity sensor
A while back The Pi Hut were doing a cheap little board that used Radar as the proximity sensor. Not looked recently but I bought one just in case. The advantage being it'll go out though it's...
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Other • Re: Chrome for Raspberry Pi OS (Debian ARM)
Chromium syncs with Google. It is quite simple to setup. viewtopic.php?t=395269&hilit=chromium+syncThank you for repeating exactly the same thing as I wrote above and sharing the exact same...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Upgrade still possible ?
The link works for me. Nice discussion and simple solution here above. Cool guysStatistics: Posted by SyncBerry — Fri Jan 23, 2026 9:17 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Errors Loading Chromium Kiosk using Wayland in...
Hello, I'm wanting to create a lightweight/optimized TV Web Client Kiosk. I specifically want to use Wayland and Chromium. I'm using a fresh install of Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit released 4 Dec 2025...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Request advice on choice of SSD for Pi5
I recently had a hunt for M2 SSDs that I could find still at reasonable prices and I purchased Crucial P310 which is working solidly with a Pi5 in an Argon One V5.I have previously tried Western...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: RPi5 swap increase solves stuttering and lockup
To - CraigevilThanks so much for advice to use zram instead of swapfile. At first I thought to myself to leave well enoguh alone since I was getting results I liked. But, your suggestion had to be...
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