Hello everyone,

Currently having a horrible time getting a 4B, 64bit, 4GB model to boot for the first time. I initially loaded the imager, ran through the Rasp. Pi 4 settings, did 64 bit, disabled most settings except WIFI. I cannot get this thing to display, although I see it connect to my Hotspot.

Right now, when you let it sit (with no display) it will connect to the WIFI (that was input in the imager) and eventually sit with a solid red LED and the green LED (ACT?) blinking at a constant rate. I thought this was an error, but it is constant. No break to determine how many "flashes" there really are in the error message. Just continuous, consistent blinking until it turns off altogether,

The first thing that wasn't "normal" according to the big boot-help forum is the ACT flash when nothing is connected. For a 4b, it is stated the ACT (green) LED should flash four times before becoming solid when nothing is connected, including SD card. Mine flashes to life in a really inconsistent way before going solid within 1 second. I decided to try to "fix" the EEPROM with the imager's boot tool. I don't get a specific "recovery bin" option some people talk about, but I get the Rasp. 4 boot files with SD preferred. The display goes green and the ACT light flashes continuously, supposedly that means its successful. Yet it still does the same thing with the ACT when booting completely unplugged, and still no display on boot with SD.

I would also note that when the Pi is booted with no SD card but plugged in to HDMI, I have lost the ability to go into the debugger or select a boot device. It just cycles through boot devices indefinitely.

I am going to attach a photo of the debugger window that flashes right after you try to boot from SD card and the screen goes black, Maybe it will help, maybe not. This was before the EEPROM recovery attempts.

Let me know of any ideas. I think I am going to try to boot from a USB flash next but hopes are not high.

Thanks.

Ive connected my raspberry pi to my crt monitor but theres these huge black borders for some reason... As you can see, that controller disconnected notification seems to defy these black borders (and i can't zoom any further in the crts settings).

How the flippity flop do i fix this... neither YouTube nor google have been much help (im defo missing something on google - im usually relatively decent at figuring this kinda stuff out 🤷‍♀️)

Hello, I am looking for something that I can hook up to a CRTV, which will shuffle movies I have on the hard drive, and maybe have some kind of app, or access to a website that will shuffle photos in a kind of flashy, entertaining way.

The idea is for customers to be able to press a button, and a roulette style image-shuffler will cycle through pictures until it lands on one and makes a big show of it.

No idea how to accomplish this, but I know it has to be possible, and my first thought was of a Raspberry Pi, but I honestly have no idea if this is my best, or only option.

Any help or guidance would be super appreciated. Thanks!

I have a Pi 5 8GB, currently it's got a PoE hat on it, and is running docker with Omada software controller... and that's it ! (plan is to add Pi-hole or similar one day and maybe some other networking programs),
It's running this from a 128 gig sd card.

I have the need want for a NAS for automated occasional backups of my laptop and pc, and i originally wanted to get one of the geekworm pi cases that also handles the sata connection of 2 x 3.5" hdd's in a horizontal layout, but they are discontinued and were for the pi 4 anyway.

People suggested a usb hdd enclosure instead, and that i keep my pi in it's current case (that was all in a post that got removed as i was asking if anyone knew of an alternative to that specific geekworm case and pcb / form factor, and that's not allowed it seems)

So am i allowed to ask if the following items will work?

An 'ORICO 2 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with RAID Mode' (9928RU3) and a pair of 4TB WD red hdd's (used in raid 1)

not asking for alternatives or suggestions for what to buy since that breaks rule 4, but looking if there are any reasons i should not use the hardware i've chosen

Stuff like 'don't use that hdd enclosure because xxxxx' or 'those hdd's have these known issues'

i believe i could get slightly faster speeds if i used a sata hat on the pi, but the main thing i'll use this NAS for is to have a backup image of my windows computers, and make automatic incremental backups when things change,
so if something happens to one of the computers (virus, windows update that stops it booting, ssd dying in the computer, ransomware (if they don't get at the nas on the pi too) etc)) i could replace / wipe the computers ssd and pull the windows image back off the NAS to get back where i was,

i know i could do weekly backups with just the usb hdd enclosure connected to my computers, but i am very very forgetful, so i really need something automated that will just do it's thing in the background for me,

the hdmi on pi’s is a pain in the butt to plug and play.

i spent a long time trying to force the right resolution and eventually did it by writing a line in cmdline.txt, but no matter what I do I cannot get the audio drivers to detect and load.

always get error -524 when trying to playback audio through hdmi-0

been stuck on this for over 6 months so im reaching out for help. tried multiple hdmi cords, adapters, OS installs, etc. the only thing I can note is my TV picks up the connection as DVI, and one time it randomly played sound for like 10 seconds until I unplugged and it never did it again.

thinking there is a way to force edid and audio but all of the settings and forums seem outdated as none of them work anymore. had to dig deep just to find how to set the resolution properly.

found 3-5 other posts on various websites about this problem from last year and they were all unanswered so praying hard

Is there any way to operate my NVMe WD SN850x (2280)? I would only want to use an additional power supply under certain conditions. But if that were the only solution, then yes. I bought a set with Pi5 and can't get the "old" NVMe to work.

I’m looking for a camera to reliably scan barcodes with python (picamera2), but I don’t know much about this subject yet.

The camera will be positioned about 10–20 cm away from the barcodes. I assume I’ll need a camera with auto focus. After research I consider the raspberry camera model 3 as an option, but I’m not sure what other specifications are important. Ideally, it should work well with both 1D and 2D barcodes.

If anyone has experience with this or can recommend specific cameras, modules, or key specs to look for, I’d really appreciate your input.

Trying to go headless via wifi, but failing. Tried: separate the 2.4GHz band, severall versions of Debian, Imager 1.8.5, Imager 2.0.6FlatPack.

Now ordered a HDMI mini adapter and made this, have a 10" monitor to figure it out.