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Naturewatch camera kit

@paul1 wrote: Green led flashes then becomes solid, red led on cable solid but no wyfi detected by phone or wyfi analiser app. Any ideas Posts: 4 Participants: 2 Read full topic

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GPIO Expansion + PiHATs + Ribbon Cable

@ookjar wrote: Hi All I have a B+ with an expansion board (3 GPIO connectors), which when I plug a PiHat directly onto either of the three GPIO expansions works fine. Trouble is I need to take the...

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My Track pad stopped working on my PiTop?

@ImmaCat wrote: Does anyone know what might be wrong? Posts: 1 Participants: 1 Read full topic

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OnOffShim wired away

@bborastero wrote: hi all I’ll jump straight in. Is it possible to connect the OnOff Shim to a Rpi Zero W with 5cm of cable so that it can be mounted out side of a casing? Also do all 12 pins need to...

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Using DOT3K for weather forecast - few issues

@Mr_A wrote: I’ve been trying to put together a Python script that collects the weather forecast then displays the results on the Display-o-Tron 3000 and I’ve almost got it figured out. I forked a...

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Pirate Radio Stops Working

@RMHirtle wrote: Hi, I bought a Pirate Radio Kit and have completed assembly and S/D card generation and update per the available instructions. Radio works well and all controls and functions appear...

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Official Raspberry Pi Universal Power Supply -- Raspberry Pi Model B

@rainmanh wrote: Hi, I am wondering whether the “Official Raspberry Pi Universal Power Supply” (https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply) will work with a " Raspberry Pi...

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Scroll phat wunderground

@g7kse wrote: Evening, I’m having a play with the scroll phat (Well Scroll Bot really) and wanted to use the Wunderground weather example. However, wunderground seem to hae stopped offering the free...

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Enviro:bit sound

@okcomputing wrote: Hi, I’m trying to get the enviro:bit and micro:bit to report the sound level as a simple test I’ve uploaded a screen shot of the code in the blocks editor. It just keeps reporting...

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LED Shim Remote I/O error

@Blanchot wrote: Hi folks, Just received some of the new LED shims and after doing a full install via curl and making sure i2c is on I’m getting the following error in my code: ledshim.clear()...

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HyperPixel - 3.5 no touch

@jofori wrote: Hi I just got my Hyperpixel today and ran the software following these instructions… GitHub pimoroni/hyperpixel hyperpixel - Setup for the Pimoroni Hyper Pixel 800x480 pixel multi-touch...

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PiHub Serious Fault

@PalaeoPi wrote: Hi, I plugged in my PiHub today, linking it to 3 Nikon cameras. After I plugged in the power supply it started smoking. What could have caused this? The hub is several years old,...

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Automation pHat relay problems

@chrisF wrote: I am trying to use an automation pHat to activate a garage door opener. I’ve simply connected the two wires that run from the opener mechanism to the local “press for open/close” switch...

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Using the Automation pHAT and Speaker pHAT at the same time

@Timon wrote: I need to be able to use the Automation pHat and the Speaker pHAT on the same project/Raspberry Zero W. This is currently a problem due to the pin conflict on GPIO pin 40. I already...

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Octocam woes!

@strickvl wrote: Hi, Got my octocam in the post today. Spent all afternoon trying to get the Wifi to work (long / complicated password caused problems) but now at least I know it’s connecting to the...

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BME680 Breakout

@strickvl wrote: Is there any way to use the BME680 without soldering things? I have a RPi 3 and a RPi Zero. If there’s any way to use it out of the packet/box, that’d be great. (I don’t know how to...

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Stuck at the start

@Dave1958 wrote: Complete newby and incompetent here! I’m building the Nature Watch camera and following the instructions from the Nature Watch website. These instructions say to edit the...

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Window mount/Octocam

@djdan00 wrote: I have a rapsberry pi zero with the mini camera but want to mount it to a window. Ideally I would like the octocam but without the pi etc just the mount. There is one other type of...

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Using RPi.GPIO with the inkyphat library

@citlee wrote: Hi, I am using an inkyphat display with the inkyphat library installed via sudo apt-get install python3-inkyphat on a fresh install of the latest Raspbian Lite (2018-04-18 Stretch) on a...

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OnOffShim

@fscii wrote: I just got it and wanted to put it on a pizero that’s running PiHole with Adafruits OLED library on it (python, I2C library etc). I put it on and pulled the oled and I can get a red...

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