Raspberry Pi Weekly Newsletter - Monday, June 29, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Why is my Raspberry Pi 2 so hot? I have one raspberry PI and two PI-2, side by side, inside a little cupboard. I'm constantly monitoring their temperature. I'm worried because one of the Pi-2 is quite hot. The PI and the hot PI-2 ... temperature   asked by Jaime Pardos 6 votes Can't edit files on SD card I'm attempting to edit the files on a SD card containing Raspbian on a Dell XPS 13 machine running Ubuntu. It doesn't have an internal SD card reader so I use and external one. When I plug in the SD ... sd-card permissions   asked by hellocatfood 3 votes answered by Bob Clough 3 votes Save an image of a RPi thats booting from a hard drive I recently setup my RPi so that it boots from a hard drive (as much as I could move off of the SD card anyways). Previously I was simply plugging my RPi SD card into my computer and making a clone ... raspbian linux hard-drive image backup   asked by SHiLLySiT 3 votes answered by goldilocks 2 votes Distributing a rasbian image I have a raspberry pi running an ivr application.The application is a little painful to setup. My plan is to distribute the pi image that has everything installed with a few friends that are planning ... raspbian   asked by feverDream 2 votes answered by dastaan 2 votes Cron job doesn't work, but runs successfully manually I have directories in my home folder that hold reports uploaded via FTP. The daily folders are named like YYYYMMDD. At 00:01, I want to delete the folder from four days ago. At 01:01, I want to change ... raspbian cron   asked by user38537 2 votes answered by hildred 1 vote 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, ... raspbian   asked by dastaan 2 votes answered by goldilocks 4 votes Buffering issues with kodi (on openelec) Every time I try to stream heavy (mostly 1080p) videos trough the network (webdav, sftp...), it either fails or I got the message "cache is full" etc. Videos start playing, but randomly stop (to ... kodi openelec   asked by Gui-Don 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do I install Google Chrome? When I go to download Google Chrome from http://www.google.com/chrome in Midori on the Raspberry Pi , I am presented with a modal dialogue box, Please select your download package: 32 bit ... software-installation web-browsers chromium midori   asked by Andrew Fogg 72 votes answered by Tass 92 votes How to install GNU C++ Development Tools on Raspberry Pi (using apt-get) Is there a well-known package I should install for C++ Development Tools? What do I type at the command-line after sudo apt-get install? Ideally, I want the same tools that were installed with ... software-development c++ packages gcc   asked by imulsion 5 votes answered by goldilocks 7 votes Can you answer these? Raspbian, no audio HDMI, have tried all the troubleshooting I can find I know this is a noob question, so I apologise in advance! I've been googling for hours, have ran through all the steps for troubleshooting sound through HDMI; un-commenting the config file sound ... raspbian audio hdmi setup   asked by bmacp 1 vote Can we use usb webcam with picamera? Is it possible to use a usb webcam instead of raspberry pi camera module for picamera? If yes how? python camera webcam   asked by nishant kashiv 1 vote Controlling Stepper Motor Responding Strangely I'm attempting to simply move a small stepper motor over GPIO using a Sparkfun Easy Driver. This Stepper motor is the one I'm attempting to use. I'm using similar code and configuration to that shown ... raspbian gpio hardware pwm pi2   asked by MJAFort 1 vote

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