For fun I want to try and build a raspberry pi laptop. Does anyone have a recommendation for trackpads that would work easily?

Hi,

i own a rpi2 and i'm looking for the best kodi + emulation setup

Here's the important things(bare with me everything i list here is possible, as in seen everyone in some OS but not together :( ...)

1 - Plug&Play

2 - Updated emulators(as in psp,nds etc etc)

3 - Seamless Kodi integration (as in easy in&out even selectable defaul launcher ,like i can boot straight to Kodi if i want to)

4 - all OS CEC support(most times works in kodi but not in emulation-station etc)

5 - auto mount (yes,most emulation-centric os don't have it)

6 - a wifi menu...(and wifi drivers)

7 - easy controller configuration and multi controller support(its not fun with people over being connected in ssh to make 4 controller work....)

8 - update friendly(as in some OS don't have apt or yum not even ipkg to install stuff,like recalbox and others)

9 - easy access to raspian gui for desktop use(with easy in/out to kodi/emulationstation ,CEC support comes handy here)

10 - virtual gamepad support

11 - nice and user friendly emulator frontend

12 - pre existent nfs/smb share with roms etc would be nice

13 - NO DUAL BOOT!

14 - multi-language support

15 - steam streaming

the closest i've got to this is dual booting raspian with kodi + recalbox vut duall booting is a pain in the ass and NO torrent while using recalbox so no good.

I know that all thi can be achieved by myself just digging and compiling stuff by myself but honestly whos got the time?

so can you name a possible solution that covers the most points? like "retropie modded by SoMeGuY covers 9/15 point (1,3,4,7,8,9,10,11,12)" and start from here then

---- I WILL DO THE ADDITIONAL WORK TO PREPARE A READYTOGO PLUG&PLAY IMAGE (media frontend +emulation front end+ full raspian gui and torrent ) TO EVERYONE TO INSTALL ----

(for rpi2 because i dont have rpi1 or rpi0 to test on,but i guess somebody who owns them could easly adapt my image).

also ,i accept suggestions to add items to the list :)

Thank you

Hello,

I have a bit of a problem I am trying to solve. I currently run a Google WiFi mesh network. Recently upgraded to 1gb internet speed, however devices are only getting 1/3 of the speed while on network. I have numerous smart home devices on my network (alexas, light bulbs, smart outlets, blink cameras, etc). These device by no means need the bulk of bandwidth. My working assumption is I can use a raspberry pi to control specific device bandwidth utilization rates.

With Google WiFi there is no way to throttle bandwidth for specific devices.

Any suggestions on how to achieve with a Raspberry pi?

P.S. I am already runnning a raspberry pi as a network wide ad blocker.

Does anyone know of a Pi-like device with 2 Ethernet ports on it?

I made a tutorial on how to turn your Raspberry into an adblock

https://youtu.be/RFqnQAaE930

Hi, I was thinking of buying a raspberry and use it as a download center for torrents and games (I spend my whole day in my office and I don't like keep my pc running the whole day at home). I know that there is steam CMD to download games from steam but what about the others clients? (Uplay, origin ecc). There is a way to download games for the other clients and import them on my pc using a raspberry? If the answer is yes what raspberry should I buy?

hello im trying to setup rpitx on a raspberry pi 3

https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx

but im lost as to which pin to use for the antenna.

on the original github linked above it says use a wire on GPIO 4, means Pin 7 of the GPIO

but others say use gpio 18

e.g https://drwxr.org/tag/rpitx/

and it i found this

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(         description="Call rpitx to set dcf77 clock",         epilog="default wire on GPIO 18 ( pin 12) and 5 minutes of transmission")     parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", help="increase output verbosity",                         action="store_true")     parser.add_argument("-4", "--gpio4", help="wire on GPIO 4 ( pin 7)", 

which suggests to me default is to gpio pin 18.

as some pi setups have a different gpio setup and i dont want to damage anything im just looking for some confirmation on which pin it should be on.

i cant belive his website doesnt say gpio 7 for pi 1 and gpio 18 for pi 3 and so forth but anyway.

ta.

I would like to know what Noobs is required to use RecalBox?

I've tried several diffent pi's but get lots of static noise in the background when looking at anything through Kodi.

How do people use the pi as a media player since at least for me the sounds is absolute crap?

I have turned of the background noise setting and tried several different USB power supplies, cables etc.

Hi, I'm looking for a way to power my pi zero in a single electrical gangbox. I would provide a poe over ethernet. And I know there are poe splitter that give a micro USB and a ethernet cable. The thing is that you still need a ethernet to usb adapter. So I figured It would be nice to have a ethernet to usb adapter that uses the poe to backfeed the rpi zero with the same USB. I couldn't find one. Does that even exist? (I would Inject 5V in the ethernet cable) what do you guys think about this? I guess 5v would become 4v after some distance...

I would like to do a project at school to learn many things to do, but to do this, it might be helpful to have other accessories that I still have not. According to you, what do you recommend?

Should I do it ?

Im looking for some software for my raspberry pi 3 that can turn my pi into a mediaplayer that i can connect directly to my tv(HDMI) and have a mouse connected to so i can navigate through my music there is located on my nasbox through my pi ! Does that exist ?

I have tried so far

volumio (no mouse support)

rasplex no support anymore and wont boot

plex server no option for directly hdmi output

pi music box only web

is it really true that no software exist ?

I am trying to make RPi work on Virtual Box but its giving error about VT which I have enabled in BIOS but still getting this error... anyone could help me fixing this? I have windows 10 64bit

Thanks

On a clean fully updated install of the newest raspian, on Pi 3B...I install Citadel following the tutorial found

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-email-server/

When I run the following command

sudo /usr/lib/citadel-server/setup

I get the following error

Setup could not connect to a running Citadel server.: Connection refused /var/run/citadel/citadel-admin.socket

Up till this point there hasn't been a single error. I've been messing with this issue for 2 days now. I've been to Citadel's site and all over google, searched Reddit, tried a bunch of stuff with no luck...

Hi,

I'm trying to install Ubuntu Mate 18.04 on a Raspbery Pi 2 Model B , I've downloaded the image from the official website for ARM architecture and, among the supported Raspberry, there is mine.

I've flashed OS image to SD by using Balena Etcher , but when I try to start the system I get the rainbow screen, like this.

I've tried to use 2 different SD cards (one 8GB the other 32GB), also two different power suppliers (1A 5V and 2A 5V) but nothing has changed. One thing to notice is that the only OSes I've managed to start are the official Raspbian images (I've tried the versions based on Jessie, Stretch and Buster). I've also tried the official Ubuntu Core OS but I get the same problem.

What can I do? I have to install one Ubuntu-based distro for a university project that I'm doing.

Thanks in advance.

I need a plex client device that I can connect to my TV because for some reason my TV doesn't have black outlines on the subs so they blend in the background sometimes. I need something that can support anynet+ CEC and to have an ethernet port (since I already have ethernet cable run to it, it would be a shame to use wireless in that case). I am thinking of either getting a raspberry 3 or a tv box. I preffer the raspberry 3 (with rasplex) since I would have better control over the software and I won't be at the mercy of the manufacturer for updates.

So how low can I go on the raspberry 3 specs? Would this be able to do smooth 4k stream (no transcoding) considering its connected to the server through cat 5e cable ? And would it support anynet + CEC?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RASPBERRY-Pi-3-Model-B-V1-2-1GB-RAM-Quad-Core-CPU-version-1-2/153720879881?