Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

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SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

198 months

Tuesday 3rd January 2017
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ZFS is software Raid.

It just gives you some redundancy if a drive fails so you dont lose everything if one ( of more ) drives fail. ( depending on options taken setting it up )

http://www.howtogeek.com/272220/how-to-install-and...

McAndy

12,444 posts

177 months

Tuesday 3rd January 2017
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SystemParanoia said:
ZFS is software Raid.

It just gives you some redundancy if a drive fails so you dont lose everything if one ( of more ) drives fail. ( depending on options taken setting it up )

http://www.howtogeek.com/272220/how-to-install-and...
Excellent. Thank you!

dxg

8,197 posts

260 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Perhaps you guys might be interested in this:
https://youtu.be/54jQ7ut3FBA?t=7m30s

Russ35

2,491 posts

239 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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Another new Pi available

Raspberry Pi Zero W, a new variant of Raspberry Pi Zero with wireless LAN and Bluetooth - £10.

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

198 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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Russ35 said:
Another new Pi available

Raspberry Pi Zero W, a new variant of Raspberry Pi Zero with wireless LAN and Bluetooth - £10.
Ding dong!

Perfect biggrin

essayer

9,065 posts

194 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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I have no use for that at all

I bought one anyway

julian64

14,317 posts

254 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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Getting very frustrated with raspberry PI. They seem to be in a complete ding dong with Microsoft about UWP.

Pi say they aren't responsible for any drivers for the board and its microsofts job, Microsoft say the board supplier is responsible for certification of the drivers.

Shame because other boards seem to have this better sorted

dcb

5,834 posts

265 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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julian64 said:
Getting very frustrated with raspberry PI.
+1

Latest RP 3 has a reasonable CPU, for an ARM, but low RAM, only 1GB.

I assume that's not expandable ;-<

Anyone know of a beefier ARM based SBC with more RAM ?

If it runs Linux, even better. Otherwise I'll wait for the RP 4 or 5.

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

198 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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Im struggling to find anything positive with the UWP.
Running linux and a much more lightweight language Ecosystem than Dot Net is the way forward.

Microsoft have been heavily contributing to python development lately. why not go in that direction.


julian64

14,317 posts

254 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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SystemParanoia said:
Im struggling to find anything positive with the UWP.
Running linux and a much more lightweight language Ecosystem than Dot Net is the way forward.

Microsoft have been heavily contributing to python development lately. why not go in that direction.
Only because I find c# very easy an intuitive. Raspian and c++ was a nightmare of incompatibility and poorly written libraries making any sort of graphical interface a giant supermare. When it works great, when it doesn't you spend days going through code only to find online that everyone has the problem and its down to some known glitch.

Phython is good at getting things done fast, but is so slow as to be useless and the minute you start anything time critical there are giant gaps when phython has given its processor time back to the op.

UWP is fun because I can have a single program which is almost genuinely cross platform, and of course VS makes graphical interfacing a breeze.

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

198 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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julian64 said:
Only because I find c# very easy an intuitive. Raspian and c++ was a nightmare of incompatibility and poorly written libraries making any sort of graphical interface a giant supermare. When it works great, when it doesn't you spend days going through code only to find online that everyone has the problem and its down to some known glitch.

Phython is good at getting things done fast, but is so slow as to be useless and the minute you start anything time critical there are giant gaps when phython has given its processor time back to the op.

UWP is fun because I can have a single program which is almost genuinely cross platform, and of course VS makes graphical interfacing a breeze.
If you know C++, and C#

( im currently slowly working through this beauty https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/essential... )

Can you not attempt to write some drivers and make them available on Git ?

I suppose you can always stump up the £££ for the Intel Edison and use that instead

julian64

14,317 posts

254 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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SystemParanoia said:
If you know C++, and C#

( im currently slowly working through this beauty https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/essential... )

Can you not attempt to write some drivers and make them available on Git ?

I suppose you can always stump up the £££ for the Intel Edison and use that instead
Problem with learning that is when you want to start making a graphic interface. It'll be like learning a whole new language which doesn't lend itself very well to c. Think massive pointer arrays, and pointer to pointers. I should probably stop whinging and change but I really like .net

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

198 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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13,812 posts

191 months

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RizzoTheRat

25,162 posts

192 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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Russ35 said:
Another new Pi available

Raspberry Pi Zero W, a new variant of Raspberry Pi Zero with wireless LAN and Bluetooth - £10.
Ooo, £2.50 postage seems a bit steep for something so small, but have ordered one to use as a Kodi box when I'm working abroad.


On my Pi2 I've got a 1TB hard drive connected via a WD Pidrive cable, which is a great design to power both the drive and the pi from the same power supply, and while connecting the drive to the Pi's other USB port. Does anything similar exist to power a conventional USB hard drive in the same way?

weeboot

1,063 posts

99 months

Tuesday 28th February 2017
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dcb said:
+1

Latest RP 3 has a reasonable CPU, for an ARM, but low RAM, only 1GB.

I assume that's not expandable ;-<

Anyone know of a beefier ARM based SBC with more RAM ?

If it runs Linux, even better. Otherwise I'll wait for the RP 4 or 5.
https://www.asus.com/uk/Single-board-Computer/TINKER-BOARD/

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13,812 posts

191 months

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RizzoTheRat

25,162 posts

192 months

Friday 3rd March 2017
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My Zero-W turned up today. Not going well so far.

Installed OSMC on it, and using the power supply and cable that usually runs my Pi 2 with a Pi drive attached, so plenty of power. Have plugged in a keyboard to the USB slot in order to set it up. Every time I press a key on the keyboard the HDMI signal drops out for 30 seconds or more. Any ideas what might be happening? I've tried 2 different keyboards attached with 2 different adapters so hopefully not a keyboard fault.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Friday 3rd March 22:10