Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange
Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange

Most Popular

more tags
1500 questions
19
votes
2 answers

Can't connect to Pi on local network via hostname.local on Windows

I'm setting up a Raspberry Pi for the first time, and have been SSHing into it on a Mac on the same network like so: ssh pi@raspberrypi.local However on my Windows 10 box (also on the same network) this hostname does not resolve. I've tried…
dimo414
  • 752
  • 1
  • 6
  • 21
19
votes
8 answers

Will a Raspberry Pi perform well with XBMC and many movies?

I have a library with more than 1000 movies and I'm searching for a cheap but good performance media centre system. I've been using a Xtreamer Prodigy until now but it's firmware's a little slow (more than 2-5 minutes booting and a clunky interface,…
Jsncrdnl
  • 291
  • 1
  • 2
  • 5
19
votes
8 answers

Is Pi powerful enough for an oscilloscope project?

My goal is to make Pi based instruments, starting with an oscilloscope. So I read answers to What Analog to Digital Converters Are Available For RPI? How can I connect an analog to digital converter (ADC)? It seems possible to read analog inputs…
niw3
  • 193
  • 1
  • 1
  • 5
19
votes
6 answers

Access network Samba share from Pi client

I've been using my PC to access the files on RPi, using Samba Server on RPi. But, Is there any way I could open Samba Connections on Pi? Like browsing Windows PC Samba Files on RPi?
Snazzy Sanoj
  • 407
  • 1
  • 5
  • 11
19
votes
4 answers

Build custom Raspbian OS image from source

UPDATE: This answer was given a long time ago. It will not build Raspbian Jessie - it will build whatever the Raspberry Pi Foundation's latest released image is based on. At time of writing, this is Raspbian Buster. I am wanting to generate a…
Mike Roberts
  • 625
  • 1
  • 7
  • 13
19
votes
2 answers

Stopping Raspberry Pi display sleep

I'm using my raspberry pi displayed on a tv through HDMI. It boots up into the terminal and is fine, however, when I leave it for a few minutes, the display goes to sleep. I'm using an application called conspy to control the console from another…
Will Cobb
  • 193
  • 1
  • 1
  • 5
19
votes
6 answers

Use /boot/cmdline.txt for creating first-boot script

Many questions have been asked about how to find my Pi on my network. Others - including myself - have time consuming issues while trying to deploy a batch of fresh Pi's. While the creation of custom images could be a solution for these issues, I'm…
EDP
  • 1,691
  • 1
  • 14
  • 24
19
votes
9 answers

How can I protect software on the Pi for commercial use?

I would like to use the Raspberry Pi in a commercial product, but I would like to prevent reverse-engineering of the software on the device. The software in question would be written in Ruby. I assume that the end-user has physical access to the SD…
Schrockwell
  • 293
  • 1
  • 2
  • 6
19
votes
1 answer

Why does the SD card random write performance for record size 8-128 kB drops below the performance of record size 4 kB?

When I check the performance of SD cards for random write, I can see the performance is quite bad for record size 4 kB (this is not surprising) but then for several cards it even drops for larger record sizes before it increases. I measured the…
Neverland
  • 351
  • 2
  • 4
  • 12
19
votes
3 answers

How do I configure Raspbmc with a static IP address?

I have Model B and connected via Ethernet and running Raspbmc. It's taking new IP address whenever I restart it, of course may be because of DHCP, but I want to configure this Raspberry Pi with a static IP address, so that I can use my XBMC remote.
garikapati
  • 315
  • 1
  • 3
  • 7
19
votes
2 answers

MongoDB on Raspbian

So, I already have a Raspberry Pi running with Raspbian, but I can't seem to install MongoDB. I followed some tutorials (here and here) with pre-built mongo installations, but those all failed. Everywhere I see there is the suggestion that I should…
user1226868
  • 321
  • 1
  • 2
  • 6
19
votes
7 answers

Raspberry Pi 2 - Are 64GB UHS-I Class 1 SDXC cards supported?

Raspberry Pi 2 - Are 64GB UHS SDXC cards supported? I'm using a 64GB Hama UHS-I SDXC card formatted with the SD Card Formatter 4.0 with NOOBS 1.4 on it. It doesn't seem to want to boot. I have both green and red lights on all the time. Monitor…
unom
  • 643
  • 2
  • 7
  • 20
19
votes
6 answers

Can I use Fedora on the Pi 2?

I know Fedora has ARMv7 images. Can those be used on the Raspberry Pi 2, and if so, how?
goldilocks
  • 58,859
  • 17
  • 112
  • 227
19
votes
3 answers

kodi (xbmc) on raspbian can't activate keyboard or mouse

I have a b+, and raspbian is installed. The reason I am using raspbian rather than Raspbmc, OpenELEC, or XBian is that I want to use this b+ to do other things (GPIO related and so on) as well as to use it as a movie player. environments I use a…
kukrt
  • 529
  • 1
  • 5
  • 12
19
votes
3 answers

Firmware 3.18.x breaks I²C, SPI, audio, lirc, 1-wire (e.g. /dev/i2c-1, No such file or directory)

I am using I²C to control a Bright Pi module. I followed instructions from 'Configuring GPIO - Adafruit' and 'Configuring I²C - Adafruit' to set up the I²C. I have done this a few months ago and everything went fine. This is how I connected the…
LittleOne
  • 293
  • 1
  • 2
  • 6
1 2 3
…
99 100