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Connect a keyboard and screen to your pie, press F4. This gives you access to the console.
Type rfkill
It should tell you if your wan0(wireless) is blocked by software. But if it’s scanning and finding your wireless this can’t be your issue.
I thought you were maybe trying to connect your wifi via the console.
In that case it might be best to try setting your wifi up via the console, and using wpa-supplicant
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Wifi/
Take a look at the bottom, “manual configuration”
And that should work.
There are a number of ways depending on how simple or complex a solution you're looking for, what information you're looking to display, what your skill set is and how much automation you're looking for in the solution.
You could probably install something like LibreOffice Impress - https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/ - or a powerpoint viewer on the Pi and have it launch on startup with a presentation file that you drop in a specific location with a predefined filename using sftp or a samba share, etc. accessed from your laptop.
You could continue to convert your ppt slides to .jpg and copy those over the network again with something like sftp but to me this sounds like additional work for no benefit if you already have the information in ppt format and a viewer for the file available for the Pi.
You could also use something like VNC Viewer to take control of the pi remotely to launch the ppt viewer if you're not comfortable with using cron jobs, shell scripts and the like to automate displaying the information.
More complex options might be to look at creating a web page for your information, hosting that remotely or locally on the pi and again updating the changes via sftp or if it fits for your scenario, pulling the updated data in from json, xml feeds, etc.
yes but they are not the cheapest option.
fwiw, this is probably the best priced pi zero w package on amazon at the moment
just need to add an SD card to it
Should be fine but if you are worried just get one of these. I have one installed on the raspberry pi4 and works wonderfully.
If you're willing to spend a bit I can highly recommend the Argon One. Its kept my pi really cool and has a passthrough hatch for all the pins.
When you have it all plugged in you can set the fan speed to adjust with the pi's temp so its not going ham all the time.
The one I linked works for a couple of different brands, on different frequencies. But, as I mentioned above -- I would not go for that solution if you have an old one-button remote; I would just cannibalize the one you have now. But, now that I'm re-reading your post, you probably don't want to cannibalize one. In that case, I would probably go with a 1-button solution like this -- get one that is known to work with your garage door. Program it, and then wire up a fake button-press as /u/falderol suggested.
I agree with this idea, except that I'd use a MOSFET circuit instead of a relay.
> I think you need to look into the hardware opener for your door. Most of the commercial wifi-garage-door-openers dont try to talk to the antenna. They run wires into the unit like the garage button.
Interesting -- I would have thought they would behave exactly like the external garage-door openers, which do talk to the antenna (e.g., this one -- I just installed it last week and was surprised that it didn't go through the garage via wires).
You need something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/MazerPi-Raspberry-Switch-Indicator-Supply/dp/B08B1FZWR3
The power is only controlled by the USB power, and hence you have to put the switch inline with that.
I have the 3b, but it shouldn't be any big differences. You will be able to emulate some Pokémon games, but I don't think you can go higher than N64 type games. To emulate games you'll need ROMs (don't think I'm allowed to tell you where to get them but it's not hard to find) and the emulator itself. I suggest retropie since it has worked well for me, but there are other alternatives if you don't like it.
So you're almost there:) as you have an x86 based PC at hand now, I would recommend checking out batocera (https://batocera.org/); that is an operating system specifically for emulation and super easy to use and due to its Linux core,it will probably work very well with your older hardware (have i mentioned that you usually don't have to install drivers under Linux?;) ), though especially laptop hardware can be quirky. The best about it is that you can start it from an USB stick,e.g. just to test it out or to turn your high end developer machine into a gaming rig without threatening the important data. This won't touch the contents of your hard disk at all and will even work without a hard disk:) all you have to do is - download the batocera image - write ("flash") it to a USB stick - tell your computer's bios to boot from this stick instead of the hard disk or a CD (it sounds like you've installed the windows,so I'd assume you know how to do this)
Though Linux doesn't support windows programs and games natively,batocera comes with a program called "WINE" (stands for "Wine Is No Emulator"), which basically catches windows specific calls and translates them into something Linux can understand. While it's not always working perfectly, it does a great job in many cases and I've checked their database, NFS Porsche unleashed seems to be supported very well; N64 should work without any issues,too and the required emulators are built in.
PS: even though we never had arcades around where I grew up,I definitely feel with you and I miss the old days with additional content as part of patches instead of DLC's,games that are functional at the time they're released and most of all,local multiplayer (all consoles take 4 controllers,but games that make use of that are very rare). On a side note: is it just me or are there mostly only games about killing something left? What happened to all the adventures,rts's,puzzle and jump & runs/platformers?
Fosmon Mini Bluetooth Keyboard (QWERTY Keypad), Wireless Portable Lightweight with Built-In Touchpad, Compatible with Apple TV, PS4, HTPC/IPTVVR Glasses, Smartphones and more https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BX0YKX4/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_7A0RA35FC23QMJDJN2W7
there's a web interface for the pi I think - so you get that running and then you can upload your designs for printing through the web, without the need for a screen or mouse or etc. Can't remember what that's called but I know it exists.
Edit: Its octoprint
The truth is, if you want to work with coding environments you need to become good at researching. There are many problems you may run into, and the solutions are all on the internet. I googled your problem and within a couple minutes arrived at the raspberry Pi builds below:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/
Choose the lite version without a desktop environment.
If is just screwed on as in the pictures, change it out for a quieter 5v fan. Hard to tell scale but noctua fans are pretty quiet https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-Cooling-Bearing-NF-A4X10-FLX-5V/dp/B00NEMGCIA
Yes possible, but you could just get a usb WiFi card for your pc
Expansion.
Or you could do an ethernet hat that allows you to talk to multiple different components.
Edit: it’s my cake day apparently and also this is what I am talking about.
RJ45 GPIO Pinout Breakout Board for Raspberry Pi 1A+ 1B+ 2B 3B 3B+ 3A+ 4B Zero-W https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PZ5H2BP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_4KT1F6FWMR2ZZN6V1SB4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Hey man, how did you end up fixing it? My Intenso SSD isn't working with RPi 4 8GB. I tried copying the files from SD card to SSD as well using RPi Imager to do a fresh install on the SSD. Still couldn't get my Pi to move past the inhibit bit(s) error.
Thanks!
shit i thought i had put the link in, its this screen. btw when you dont install any of the thing it tells you to its just white, and im pretty sure i wont be able to install in on anything thats not rasbian or something simmilar.
Yeah they will work right out of the box on RetroPie. I personally use the 8Bitdo and can attest that it feels exactly like a snes controller.
This should do the trick, similar to the one I have:
I have this one and I've never had undervolt issues on my RPi3B
Buuut, I don't have my pi hooked in to this directly, I actually have this feeding in to a large powerbank 10,000mAh? that then plugs in to the pi, I do this so that in case I turn the car off and forget to powerdown the pi before hand I won't risk the sd card corruption from abrupt shut down. Though I guess you could make the pi's OS read only and avoid the issue that way as well. Also note that not all powerbanks will supply power uninterrupted to peripherals when the object charging the powerbank is turned off.
I too have a gaming station in my car, you're gonna love it dude, have fun!
Yep, at minimum a 3A adapter is recommended for the Rpi4B, most of the cheaper power banks output at 1A and/or 2.4A, but there are power banks out there that push out 3.1A. The advantage to power banks is that the voltage supplied (and current) is very stable, where as power from the vehicle battery can be very dirty (and not all cigarette outlet adapters have decent filtering built in), though AIKENUO does. An inverter, even a cheap one, will supply continuous clean power but at the expense of efficiency losses during DC to AC conversion. Not to mention that stepping the voltage up to 120V AC simply to plug in a pi is a bit overkill. Using an adapter to step down from 12VDC to 5VDC is much more efficient than to have an inverter bring from 12VDC to 120VAC then back down to 5VDC.
> but I’m so curious as to the best way to do this
I know how you feel, at some point compromise is necessary. You could make your pi's filesystem read only but then if you ever wanted to change a setting, save something, or even apply updates, you'd need to run a script to turn off the read only mode, then turn it back on again when you're done. For me the powerbank is a stop gap solution, but it works. There are apps on Android (and probably iphone) like SSH button or Raspicontrol that allow you to issue shutdown commands with a single button press, so that even if you can;t get to the gui, you can at least be sure your pi is shut down properly.
They also have UPS hats just for the raspberry pi on Amazon, this would probably be the most elegant, but prob also the most expensive solution..
I don't know if you can make the pi present itself as storage directly but you could use something like this: UGREEN USB Sharing Switch USB 2.0 Peripheral Switcher Adapter Box 2 Computer Share 1 USB Device Hub for Printer Scanner with 2 Pack USB 2.0 Male Cable https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CU4QCRS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_dVhdCbWRGY2R0
And connect a usb to it and then connect the treadmill and pi as the 2 devices. Then when you are done with your workout, switch the switch to the pi, then have a script on the pi that runs when it sees the drive attached and executes whatever you want it to do.