Raspberry Pi Weekly Newsletter - Monday, February 29, 2016

Top new questions this week: Need a way to pull MAC Addresses from my Router for a "Who's Home" project This kind of project has been done with Bluetooth before but the 30 foot range and extra battery consumption make me want to just ping the router instead of people's phones. I know that routers keep ... networking wifi   asked by Cody 10 votes answered by MadeInDreams 6 votes How to install node.js with GPIO I am trying to install node.js on my Raspberry Pi as well as GPIO. I am running a brand new install of Debian Jessie I could get nodejs v.0.10.29 installed. No matter what I do, this is pretty much ... raspbian gpio software-installation node.js   asked by MadeInDreams 6 votes answered by MadeInDreams 0 votes What are the differences between the Model 2B and 3B? Having seen an official part/order number (SC14012 or SC14014 with 16GB micro SD Noobs software) including what looks to be a real photographic image in a recent (2016/02/27 "Computer World" March ... pi-2 pi-models pi-3   asked by SlySven 5 votes answered by HeatfanJohn 3 votes Speech to text conversion for Raspberry Pi 2 I'm new to this Forum as well as using Raspberry Pi 2 for the first time. I'm currently making a learning device for a blind person. My project requires text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion to ... pi-2 software-recommendation speech-recognition accessibility   asked by tiara24 4 votes answered by SlySven 3 votes MySQL 5.7 in Raspberry Pi 2 I want to install Mysql 5.7 on Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspbian Jessie. When I execute the command apt-get install mysql-server, it installs the version 5.5. What I have to do? Thanks raspbian jessie mysql   asked by Galo Ciber 3 votes answered by Sapher 4 votes Modbus on Raspberry Pi I am quite new to Raspberry Pi and Modbus. I am going to implement a Modbus RTU on Raspberry Pi using libmodbus. I followed this totorial as a simple Modbus test, but when I compile the ... pi-2 modbus   asked by dorsa 3 votes Run a script on Raspian startup but not on terminal open I have added a command in .bashrc to run a script at startup of my Raspberry Pi, but everytime I open a new terminal the same script executes again. Is there any way I can make this script run only ... raspbian bash   asked by Radu Gheorghiu 3 votes answered by joan 5 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Resize file system on OpenELEC I was trying to perform an update and an error told me that I hadn't enough free space. So I connected to my Raspberry through SSH to ask for disk usage with: df -h And I obtained the following ... sd-card openelec memory   asked by darkheir 7 votes answered by syb0rg 11 votes How can I remove the GUI from Raspbian/Debian? I would like to know how to completely remove X.org and all GUI-related components from Raspbian or soft-float Debian. The most obvious solution would be sudo apt-get purge xorg, but I am afraid that ... raspbian xorg gui   asked by InkBlend 39 votes answered by avra 28 votes Can you answer these? Sound Quality: Does the choice of operating system or software affect quality of sound? Has anyone done a sound quality comparison between Audiophile and Media Centre operating systems? On a simple Pi-for-stereo that uses only the onboard sound card, will I get better sound if I use ... audio kodi   asked by John 1 vote i2cdetect shows all possible adresses I have accidentally connected (SDA, SCL) with (5v, GND) (the two pins next to them), after doing so the raspberry pi has been overheating just by connecting it with power source (with no pins ... i2c rip   asked by Youssef Magdy 3 votes Raspberry Pi Mesh Network I want to set up a simple mesh network using Wifi among multiple Raspberry Pis. The goal is for multiple moving Pis to be able to join and leave the network and send GPS data to all nodes on the ... raspbian networking wifi   asked by lmatte7 2 votes

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