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Colored console over serial connection?
I am accessing two of my Pis via a serial connection on pins 8 and 10. One of them uses a serial to USB connector for my Mac and the other uses an HC-06 which connects to my Android. The console/terminal over serial is very bland and colorless,…
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Installing OS on separate Raspberry Pi
I have a micro SD card that I am planning on using with a Raspberry Pi Zero, I do not have a mini HDMI to full HDMI adapter, but I do have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, say could I image the card, do the first boot on the Pi 2, have it install Raspian,…
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How to change the Raspberry Pi's hostname (in Raspbmc)?
Currently my dhcp-log displays my Raspberry Pi with the name xbmc-e0cb. Can I change this to a more sensible name?
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True 9-bit serial port data?
I have an existing, half complete, vending machine project running on an Atmel UTC, which I want to port to the Pi.
In order to talk to peripherals, such as coin acceptor, it has to support Multi-Drop Bus which has a 9-data bit serial port…
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Where is syslog being written?
I have an out of the box Pi. See below on what I have done. If I have in a PHP script, where the the message being logged?
$ sudo apt-get install nginx
$ sudo mkdir /var/www
$ sudo apt-get install…
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How to start core 1,2,3 in Raspberry Pi 2
I have written a bare metal multi core example.
Code, circuit diagram is here - https://github.com/jeffreyantony/multipi/tree/master/Example_01
In my example, there are 3 LED's connected to the GPIO pins of the raspberry Pi. There are totally 4…
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How can I log into my Raspberry Pi Samba share from Windows?
I'm trying to set up an SMB share on my network using Samba.
I followed the directions here as well as I could as I have Raspbian installed on my Pi. When I plugged in my USB drive it automounted to /media/Media/ so I skipped the first part.
What I…
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May I redistribute Windows 10 IoT?
Say I have a Raspberry Pi 2, built something around it and wrote a piece of Windows 10 IoT software for it. Let's call the whole thing a "product" which fulfills a particular purpose.
May I sell the product in this form or do I need a (commercial)…
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How can I turn an GPIO to its alternate function?
I want to use the altenate function of GPIO 4 namely the GPCLK0 function.
How can one set a GPIO to its alternate function? Many alternate functions are summarized here: elinux-wiki
The best would be if it is possible with the wiringPi Library. But…
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PowerShell can't connect to Windows IoT
I am following the instructions from Using PowerShell to connect and configure a device running Windows 10 IoT Core to access my Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IoT via PowerShell.
PS C:\> Enter-PSSession -ComputerName minwinpc -Credential…
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Where is the space in my SD card?
I just got a raspberry pi. It came with an 8GB SD card (actually an SD adapter + microsd card) with the RPi logo on it.
It supposed to have 8Gb, but "parted" command says something different ...
$ sudo parted
GNU Parted 2.3
Using…
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Alter dhclient to retry fetching IP address
It turns out raspberry pi doesn't try very hard to get an IP address with dhcp, during a power failure, my rpi booted faster than the dhcp server, and never got an IP address. In such a situation, the rpi seems to be booted, but it doesn't get an IP…
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How to add a package to official raspbian repositories?
How to add a package to official raspbian repositories ?
Debian has a very extensive guide into the matter :
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/distribute-deb/distribute-deb.html#adding-packages-to-debian
But what about raspbian ?
Will it…
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Purpose of " 127.0.1.1 raspberrypi " entry in file /etc/hosts
I was playing with the /etc/hosts file on my Raspbian installation and outcommented the "127.0.1.1 raspberry" line. I know that the host file is basically there to facilitate address look up. However, by doing this, it started giving me following…
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Are there any damaging effects to leaving the Raspberry Pi on all the time
I have a Raspberry Pi B+ hooked up to my router and I leave it on all of the time, it rarely gets switched off. Does this cause any damaging effects to the Raspberry Pi?
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