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Python is a general-purpose, dynamically typed, object-oriented high-level programming language. Interpreters for versions 3.x and 2.x come installed on the Raspberry Pi's most popular operating system distributions.

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I am currently trying to control a NEMA 17 stepper motor rated for 1.5A through a DRV8825 driver using a Raspberry Pi 4B for a school project. I was trying to use RPi.GPIO to control the motor but it ...
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I run an open source project called PiFire which aims to provide an open source smoker controller using a Raspberry Pi and some off the shelf hardware. I have used a DSI connected touch screen display ...
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for a school project, I would like to take measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field using an RM3100 Breakout Board magnetometer from PNI Sensor. I soldered the headers myself onto the pads. I ...
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I’m trying to set up wireless communication using two NRF24L01 modules. I’m using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B as the receiver using the pyRF24 Library and a Raspberry Pi Pico with MicroPython as the ...
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Using the command lsusb i am getting the following output: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 005: ID 19d2:1405 ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM ZTE Mobile Broadband Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 ...
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I've being trying to install Mojo a replacement for Python using the instructions here. All goes well until I try to run mojo when it crashes immediately with 2343 external/tcmalloc+/tcmalloc/system-...
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I wrote code for my RPi as below and it was working preatty long time, unfortunatelly after system update buttons Start and Stop does not generate any reaction. What may be the reason and how to fix ...
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I'm having trouble using the gpiozero library on my Raspberry Pi. Here's what I've tried: Installed via apt: sudo apt install python3-gpiozero Output: Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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I'm trying to set up pigpio on my Raspberry Pi 5 (aarch64 architecture running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Lite). The installation appears successful, but I can't connect to the daemon from Python. ...
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I'm using a raspberry pi 5 to read from a dht11 sensor with the signal line connected to gpio pin 26. I tried using the Adafruit_DHT and adafruit_dht libraries, which led to the error messages "...
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I am trying to install opencv on my raspberry pi 5 (os: 32-bit lite). I've tried the code to install opencv: sudo apt-get install python3-opencv -y but encounter the error below: The following ...
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I have a PanTilt Hat powered by two servos over i2c. The example code below works fine and the hat mechanism will move smoothly for many minutes until ended by being terminated using Ctrl-C from the ...
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I'm using an Arduino Mega to send data via serial communication to a Raspberry Pi 5. The connection is made through a TTL-232R cable (TTL serial on the Arduino side, USB on the Raspberry Pi side). On ...
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I'm building a device that if in my Python program the USB speakers are not connected it directs sound only to the headphones but the device works differently in a different mode with not so many ...
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I'm working on a custom LIDAR using TF Luna and rotating it using a motor with an encoder for mapping purposes. As the title says, the rotated angle is not being updated to Rviz2 , resulting in a ...
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Hi Im working to make a car radio using a RPI5 with this Hat (version carpihat5 pro with dac+) with this project everything goes well but when I tried to add another GPIO pin to turn my amp on to his ...
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This is my first Raspberry PI project. I'm trying it for fun and personal use for my home. I want to mount a device that detects a face from a short distance (maybe 1m and less) and initialize an API ...
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I'm trying to send data to the RAM of a I2C LCD screen to clear the display (when I switch on the LCD and just after the init stage, many pixels are randomly initialized to 1 and not 0). I'm using ...
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I have 11 DS18B20 sensors distributed through my house checking temperatures of all rooms, as well as outside temperature. I check and data log from these every 5 minutes and have been doing so for ...
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I'm working on a project that needs to run headless - I need to run a python script "main.py" within a virtual environment at boot. I decided to use crontab to do this. My crontab line is as ...
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Is there a way (over in STM32-land, I would use double-buffered DMA banks) to output waveforms (4 pins in my case, though I'd like to do more) on a Raspberry Pi 5 in a continuous mode that won't go ...
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Hoping someone can help. I am currently doing a school project using a raspberry pi to allow RFID scanning, then a PIN entry then finally a fingerprint scanner, all fetched from an SQLite database. ...
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I have a Pi 4 with bookworm, running a python 3 script. The python script generates logging output to stdout (to the terminal) when run from a prompt. I want to run the script from cron and capture ...
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I'm trying to drive an I2C LCD screen. I know the device address from i2cdetect -y 1 It's 0x3f. I reset the screen by setting LOW and HIGH the RST GPIO 4 (the RST pin is connected to GPIO4). Then I ...
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"I'm trying to get my SSD1306 OLED display working with my Raspberry Pi Pico using MicroPython, but I keep running into this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>&...
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I have an RPI 4 model B below is my code import RPi.GPIO as GPIO import time # GPIO pin connected to the COIN pin of the coin selector COIN_PIN = 24 # Setup GPIO GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) GPIO.setup(...
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Im developing some code to run on the Raspberry Pi using GPIO, but most of the time Im on my desktop, where calling GPIO will break the code. I just learned about unit testing, but Im not sure how to ...
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I’m having trouble running a pygame script on my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with Raspberry Pi OS Lite. The script is intended to display images directly on the screen. However, I’m encountering errors and ...
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I'm working on a Raspberry Pi project using Python and the rpi-lgpio library to monitor GPIO events. My setup involves connecting a RadiationD-v1.1 (CAJOE) module to GPIO pin 11 (physical pin 23) on ...
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I have a Raspberrypi 5 running bookworm and would like to run a python script at reboot. The script is in a virtual environment: /home/mipi/venv/Startup/Startup.py (where venv is the root directory ...
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I am using raspberrypi4 trying to run fswebcam from within a virtual env , but i get error when i do so (rasberry-pi-env) rishil@raspberrypi:~/proj $ ./obj-detector.py Traceback (most recent call ...
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When I try to install a new python library (using pip) the following message appears error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages ...
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I am using a pi 4B with 8GB RAM and bookworm OS and the pi HQ camera. picamera2 returns sensor_mode[0] (below) that should support 60 fps video at 1332x990 image size. If I set camera configuration ...
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I'm having this code on my Raspberry Pi5: import cv2 import numpy as np box_size = (640, 480) spacing = 1 num_rectangles = 4 window_width = 640 window_height = 1200 frame = np.ones((window_height, ...
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I’m working on building an ultra-low-latency live streaming application using the Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2. My setup includes FFmpeg for video streaming over UDP to achieve low latency, and ...
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I want to send a message using LoRa SX1278 using raspberry pi 4 as a receiver and LoRa SX1278 with raspberry pi 5 as its transmitter. we have downloaded git clone from the following link: https://...
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I have a raspberry pi model 4B. This the os version I have PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)...
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Imagine having built something like Amazon's Alexa yourself. You've used all that nice HTTP / network libraries for Python and other developer-friendly things. Maybe you are also using a Python ...
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I have a fairly substantial hardware control application that I'm currently running on a RPI 3b. I'm using nearly every pin on the GPIO, including using PWM output, I2C and multiple 1-wire buses. The ...
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I'm having problems with a direct TCP connection between a Raspberry and a Modbus device. If I connect a Fritzbox router in between, I can reach the Modbus device via the PI, but not with a direct ...
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I am having issues with downloading the openai python module onto a raspberry pi 5. I know I'm supposed to download in a virtual environment first then deactivate and download globally but that hasn't ...
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I currently have a 600 p/r encoder hooked up to a pi 4. Seems to work ok, but due to the pi OS (bookworm) it usually misses some counts. From what I read, it seems that there are 2 possible ways to ...
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recently I have acquired raspberry 1 model B for a very cheap price. I want to learn some python on it but Desktop version is super laggy and command line isn't very practical for code writing. I know ...
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unattended upgrades is not upgrading the python packages that are available for upgrade. Other packages do get upgraded, for example raspberrypi-sys-mods got upgraded last night. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ...
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I have a python script running in the background 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi. It waits for a GPIO input (IR sensor high for 10s) and triggers a GPIO output (SMS trigger to a router). It uses a locked ...
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I created a executable file on the raspberry pi 3 using pyinstaller. Did the regular changes to the .spec to include my other files and attempted to run it... Nothing. So, I went into terminal and ...
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I am trying to control a E-Paper display using my Raspberry Pi 5. I want to use the gpiod library since it seems to be the best option (especially since RPi.GPIO is not supported on the Pi 5) together ...
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I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) I have a Python script in a shell file launcher.sh (with executable for all permissions) that runs happily without complaint if I ...
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I have the following code of pigpio library and I have to convert it's functionality using gpiod library. Where pigpio has a good documentation I can understand the working of previous code using that....
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I have a Zero 2W and OS Lite 32-Bit inside. All I want is a python program that sends camera footage with UDP protocol and saves footage SD card inside as a video. So I wrote this program which worked ...
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