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SSH "connection refused" on Raspberry pi - cannot find why
I have the following problem SSH "connection refused". It would work fine, but while I am working on the SSH, I would get "connection refused" and would have to re-connect (which does not occur for good 5-10 minutes). I have tried everything…
Taehoon A Kim
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Raspberry Pi 3, wifi goes to sleep?
I'm facing a similar issue to this one, How do I disable suspend mode?, except I have a Raspberry Pi 3 and am running OpenELEC 6.0.3. When I leave it on without using it for awhile, I can no longer ssh to it or connect to it via samba. I have to…

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Make display go to sleep
I'm using Raspbmc. I'd like the display to actually go to sleep (not simply just screensaver) after 15 minutes, but I can't seem to find any option for that in the settings. Am I missing something?

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Why do the USB ports and Ethernet port share the same controller?
It is my understanding that the USB ports on the Pi share the same controller as the Ethernet port.
This means if one was to use the Pi as a NAS, data transfer over the network would be restricted, since both the USB ports and the Ethernet port…

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Powering Raspberry Pi and other USB devices through a single USB Hub
I bought a powered 7-port USB Hub, which has 7 downstream ports, 1 up stream port and one power port.
My question is can I connect both Raspberry Pi and the USB devices that I want to use with Raspberry Pi and power them through the sample USB Hub…

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How to get Chromium on raspberry 3
I used the command
$ sudo apt-get install chromium
and it didn't work. I'm using Raspberry Jessie. When I ran the command I got this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium is…

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Maximum current on each GPIO pin for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Anyone knows what's the maximum input/output current for the individual GPIO pins?
Perfectly fine if someone is able to point me to the Broadcom BCM2837 datasheet, which I for some reason, cannot find anywhere. (Only managed to find BCM2835, which…

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What are the differences between the Model 2B and 3B?
Having seen an official part/order number (SC14012 or SC14014 with 16GB micro SD Noobs software) including what looks to be a real photographic image in a recent (2016/02/27 "Computer World" March 2016 issue) weekly mail-out from CPC the Retail…

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Raspbian boot process and the partition table
Any a good description of the Raspberry Pi boot process and the disk partition structure?
What is stored on each partition (and why)?
Does the RPI boot from the SD card (sector zero) or the firmware reads from the disk structure?
I assume that…

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Unable to set default input and output audio device on Raspberry jessie
I am facing a similar problem as described in this question. However I am running Jessie on Raspberry Pi and that it does not have a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file.
So can someone tell me where and how to set the default input and output audio…

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Auto-start chromium on raspbian jessie - 11/2015
I have successfully loaded up chromium-browser on raspbian jessie and am trying to autostart chromium-browser --kiosk mode... and having no luck. I have tried several attempts with varying syntaxes including @chromium and @chromium-browser (w/out…

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Spotify for RPI
Spotify is a versatile and open platform for music worldwide. It is heavy on encryption and very high on CPU usage.
Anyone aware of a yum/apt-get Spotify version for RPI running raspbian? Even without GUI, just command player version will be fine.…

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How to play audio without being root (via sudo)?
In order to play audio (espeak or aplay for example) I have to be root (via sudo). How can I do those as just a regular user? Is there a group I must be a member of or do I have to change some permissions somewhere? Thanks.

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256 or 512 MB for a webserver
I'm planning to buy a Raspberry Pi, a colleague of mine has a 256 MB left. But I don't know if 256 MB of memory can for fill the things I want to run.
I want to run an Apache web server (or some other web server that uses less ram and CPU) with PHP…

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How to enable transmission-daemon start at startup?
I have transmission-daemon installed and running. I have to go and start it manually after each restart, though. I have been reading up on upstart and such, but still am not able to get transmission-daemon to start at boot time automatically. Can…

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