Raspberry Pi Weekly Newsletter - Monday, December 29, 2014

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Top new questions this week: Unplugged pi while installing LibreOffice, now won't load desktop environment I was installing LibreOffice on my Pi and after around 2 hours of waiting it appeared as if it frozen. The mouse would still respond but the entire desktop environment had hung. So I unplugged it then ... raspbian boot-issues lxde   asked by TheJamaicanGuy 3 votes answered by TheJamaicanGuy 2 votes Baking Pi Lesson 02 does not work on B+ I would like to comprehend lesson 2 of Baking Pi, but I am not able to get the LED blinking. I am using Windows and have installed Cygwin and the ARM tool chain. As explained in the requirements, I ... boot assembly   asked by ceving 3 votes answered by joan 8 votes Cannot use particular pin in GPIO I am trying to blink led on raspberry pi using GPIO 4 (P1.7). Here is my code:- #include <bcm2835.h> #define PIN RPI_GPIO_P1_7 int main() { bcm2835_init(); bcm2835_gpio_fsel (PIN, ... raspbian gpio rpi.gpio c   asked by Tabish Saifullah 2 votes answered by lenik 2 votes Sharp 50LD264E CEC not working with OpenELEC on RPi I can't get HDMI-CEC to work with a Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC 4.2.1, with my old Samsung TV it worked correctly, but my new Sharp 50LD264E doesn't work. I've checked all the relevant settings on ... hdmi openelec   asked by Blubber 2 votes Is there an alternative to the "Pi Store" for Raspbian? I'm not satisfied with the Pi Store's software solutions. Do I have any alternatives to choose from? For instance, I'm looking for web browsers and an IDE and it would be convenient to grab these ... raspbian   asked by VitaminYes 2 votes answered by Steve Robillard 2 votes Raspberry Pi as near real time digital signal processor I have a Pi with Wolfson Audio Card, running Raspbian with low latency kernel. Is it possible and feasible to use such a setup as a near real time digital audio processor, like a reconfigurable ... audio real-time   asked by Maxthon Chan 2 votes answered by thekiwi5000 1 vote Shutting down Raspberry Pi with PHP I built this dashboard for my Raspberry Pi and would like to be able to shut it down and reboot it with a click. I have the following a in my html which redirects to a script and gets a PHP page with ... php   asked by Thibmaekelbergh 1 vote answered by goldilocks 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to install unrar-nonfree? I installed unrar-free, but I cannot extract a multi-file .rar archive (my_archive.part01.rar, my_archive.part02.rar, etc.): $ ls my_archive.part01.rar my_archive.part02.rar my_archive.part03.rar $ ... raspbian software-installation   asked by Morgan Courbet 20 votes answered by Morgan Courbet 29 votes Simple Keyboard Configuration My USB keyboard was configured slightly wrong. So far I have only tried it with the Debian image. Certain keys were not in the right place (such as the '~' character). I know how to change the ... debian keyboard input-device   asked by jandjorgensen 18 votes answered by Steve Robillard 20 votes Can you answer these? Raspiberry Pi NAS not visible and cannot be access through ip I have got my raspi and had set it up as a apache web server. Now I am trying to use the same one to use it as a NAS. But for some reason, even though I am able to ping my raspi, SSH onto my pi, but I ... raspbian networking samba   asked by ew820513 1 vote raspivid not saving metadata I think that it's not saving the metadata at all when making a recording with raspivid because when I watch it, it plays at an incorrect frame rate(always plays at 25fps when I record at either 30 or ... raspbian camera-board   asked by 11chubby11 1 vote

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