Raspberry Pi Weekly Newsletter - Monday, December 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: Differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite I googled for it, but I don't find an answer: What are the differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite? Whats better for a Owncloud server, Raspbian Jessie or Raspbian Jessie Lite? raspbian server jessie owncloud   asked by user38660 7 votes answered by Ghanima 7 votes Why there is a collabora.list on my raspbian wheezy source repo? Why there are more sources repos on my raspbian wheezy? They are /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collabora.list. For what are they needed? raspbian wheezy apt-get jessie source.list   asked by Lucho 5 votes answered by flakeshake 3 votes Raspian boot process and the partition table Any a good description of the Raspberry PI Boot process and the disk partition structure? What is stored on each partition (and why)? Does the RPI boot from the SD card (sector zero) or the firmware ... raspbian boot   asked by Fcm 5 votes answered by Fcm 3 votes Sensor Question I am following this tutorial: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/temperature/. The problem is I don't have that specific temperature sensor on me. Since I don't have that specific ... sensor temperature   asked by Clers 5 votes answered by joan 5 votes Access GPIO pins without root. No access to /dev/mem. Try running as root! I've made a python script using the RPi.GPIO library. I need to run it without root but I get this error when running it with "python ./script.py": No access to /dev/mem. Try running as root! I've ... gpio   asked by JoeyCK 4 votes answered by joan 8 votes Issue connecting to internet after proper wifi configuration I recently purchased a USB wifi dongle for my raspberry pi 2 B and attempted to connect through the Wifi Networks Panel Item in Raspbain Jessie. After entering the key, nothing happened, so I decided ... raspbian networking wifi wpa   asked by Jonny 4 votes answered by Jonny 2 votes Using BCM GPIO pin numbers with wiringPi C library I'm a GPIO newbie experimenting with getting my Raspberry Pi to blink an LED with C using the wiringPi library. The example code at http://wiringpi.com/examples/blink/ (blink.c) compiles perfectly and ... gpio c wiringpi   asked by lefthander 4 votes answered by Steve Robillard 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to setup multiple WiFi networks? I go back and forth from home to school with my Pi. I just got the WiFi working last night at home using wpa.conf instead of wpa_supplicant.conf as the book I was using had the walk thru for that ... networking wifi static-ip   asked by Chef Flambe 30 votes answered by 11chubby11 33 votes How do I backup my Raspberry Pi? I have been writing programs for my Raspberry Pi (running Debian) for a few weeks now and would like to make sure I protect the work I have done. How can I backup the files I have created? Can I ... sd-card debian windows backup   asked by Steve Robillard 190 votes answered by Tibor 187 votes Can you answer these? Segfaults in GNU Common Lisp for RPi I'm using my pi as a dedicated lisp machine. Fresh install of the latest raspbian. Nothing extra on it except for GNU Common Lisp, emacs, and twenty or so odd little lisp programs. From time to time, ... raspbian   asked by OrangeCalx01 3 votes Getting Frequency of an audio file per second in Raspberry Pi import wave,struct,math waveFile = wave.open("/home/pi/xmas/yolo2.wav", "rb") frames = waveFile.getnframes() rate = waveFile.getframerate() length = frames / int(rate) i used this to get in the ... audio alsa   asked by Alan JÖzf Pallath 3 votes Wi-fi doesn't work on my Raspberry Raspberry PI 2 was the best christmas present this year, but I'm having some serious issues with the wi-fi connection setup. I manage to connect only with ethernet cable. I also noticed a weird ... wifi   asked by Pippilotta 2 votes

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