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Questions involving the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS). Use this tag if you are having trouble using NOOBS to boot your Pi, having trouble with using NOOBS to install an OS, or your question involves NOOBS, such as how to configure an installation from within NOOBS.

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Restart NOOBS downloading process?

I was at university with NOOBS in SD card and my Raspberry. I need to install OpenELEC which is downloaded from Internet. However, it seems that university cable network doesn't provide DHCP or ...
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RPi cold boots into low resolution (LCD)

I have this LCD connected to my RPi B+ (HDMI). I have configured the boot config.txt to enable its 1024x600 resolution, however, on COLD boot - it runs at a lower resolution. Only after a SOFT reboot, ...
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Enable desktop on the raspberry pi

I was trying out booting my pi4 into a chromium kiosk mode for a demo and ran the commands from the following post: Open chromium full screen on start up @xset s off @xset -dpms @xset s noblank @...
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Raspberry Pi 4 stuck on Rainbow Screen

My Raspberry Pi turns on, it shows the Rainbow Screen, then freezes. I have not installed Raspbian; I downloaded NOOBS and put it on my micro SDHC card. I put the micro SDHC card into the slot and ...
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Espeak library pcm.c:2495 unknown pcm bluealsa - raspberry pi

I'm currently working on a project using espeak I fixed the first issues with devices using this tutorial https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=136974 but i'm left with what is below ...
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Imaging microSD w/ NOOBS using rooted android phone with external SD

I have a LG G3 phone that I rooted, which has an external sd card. When I plug it into my Mac I can adb shell and su without problem but I cannot access it using finder. It's not mounting properly as ...
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How do I add the nightly Risc Os build as an option to the NOOBs / PINN OS list?

The latest NOOBs image contains the RISCOS boot binary, but the option to install it dosen't appear on a Pi-3. I guess as the official release only supports Pi-1 + Pi-2, while the nightly build ...
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Install a third-party OS image using NOOBS?

I have a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian and RaspBMC installed using NOOBS, but I was wondering if it is possible to install a third-party OS, that is not included with NOOBS, using NOOBS? I was ...
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RaspberryPi 4 access ssh on first time setup without changing boot data

I recently got RPi 4 kit and I want to connect to its terminal interface using Ethernet cable from my laptop. I dont have any SD card reader on my laptop so I cannot change data on microSD. That ...
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Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed

Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed. I am trying to connect my Bluetooth joystick controller '8bitdo Pro 2' to my RPi4. Below is the error I get. This appears to be the same error ...
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dual boot menu with raspbian / librelec not showing anymore

I have a RPI 4 with both Raspbian and Libre elec. I went 2 monthes in vacation, and now I am coming back, system is only booting on librelec, I cannot find a way to boot on raspbian. Is there a way to ...
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Install recovery mode after already flashing Raspberry Pi OS?

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B, and I installed Raspberry Pi OS onto a blank microSD card using the official imager. My understanding is that if I had used NOOBS, after installing the OS there would have ...
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Pi4 SD card formatting Scheme options

im formatting the SD card for NOOBS install, and I have few options to select the Scheme. What would be the correct Scheme to select and why? Thanks.
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Sd card gets corrupted on some monitors?

When connected to Monitor DELL e2218hn, SD card with NOOBS installed is getting corrupted within 2-3 hours of use. This is not the case with other monitors as it works really smooth. ISSUE: When Pi ...
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WaveShare 7-inch Touch Screen driver for PINN / NOOBS

I have a Raspberry Pi 3, with 3 systems installed on it (Raspbian, recalboxOS, Android) using PINN. I have done the installation with a monitor, all of the systems work fine, the screen can display ...
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Problem reallocating space to root after transferring 32GB NOOB to 64GB SD Card

I've seen some other threads out there but I can't seem to get any of the suggestions to work. Maybe its because I can't seem to get GParted Live to run on my NUC. I'm trying to resize the ...
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Boot Into OS Depending on physical switch position

Does anyone know of a boot-loader existing, or if NOOBS can interpret the position of a switch/read GPIO pins at boot then pick the partition to boot into based on what it reads? E.g. Switch in ...
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Why is NOOBS not showing me all the operating systems?

A week or two ago I dropped NOOBS 2.3 on to a 32 GB SD card, booted it in my Raspberry Pi Zero W, configured the network, and was then presented with a nice long list of OSes that I could install, ...
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Stuck on keyboard layout

I have a Logitech combo mk345 wireless mouse and keyboard (Y-R0042). When I press # the pound sign is printed on screen Have tried the sudo raspi config > change keyboard (no success) probably ...
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Remove one of the OSes from the SD card

I've installed both Raspbian and OSMC using NOOBs into 1 sd card. Is there a way to remove OSMC to free up some space? I have Kodi inside raspbian so OSMC is kind of redundant. My SD is 16gb. Thank ...
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New Raspberry Pi B+ not compatible with Noobs 1.4

I've got an SD card I clone every time I buy new RPi B+ and I use it as a base system with all of the software I need pre-installed and configured. It's built on Noobs 1.4.x. The problem occurred ...
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Fresh NOOBS install boots straight to Raspbian?

I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 3, with a NOOBS sd card. During my first boot-up and initial setup using an external screen and keyboard, I was expecting a configuration settings dialog to choose ...
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Remote connection to Pi succeeds or fails apparently at random

I'm attempting to remotely access the desktop of my Raspberry Pi 2 using VNC. I followed these instructions to install TightVNC Server on the Pi (which is running NOOBS) and these instructions to ...
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RPi 2 isnt booting, Green and Red light ON

I have Rpi 2 model B v1.1 for a week. I tried some cirquits with GPIO pins. One day i made a simple button cirquit. It worked well. But few minutes ago Rpi crashed, i powered it off. When i power it ...
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Not sure if serial connection is working

I have been trying to get this working for a couple of days now, and nothing I've read seems to fix it. I am working on trying to communicate with the pi via a serial connection. My current setup is ...
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Force NOOBS 1.3 to use composite

I currently only have access to composite video screens, so I can't use HDMI which makes it a royal pain to use NOOBS. I have NOOBS 1.3 and I wanted to try dual-booting a couple different OSs, but I ...
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Windows 10 IoT and other OSes on NOOBS install list

Can I install Windows 10 IoT on PI 3, and also retain NOOBS install list? If I press Shift, NOOBS seems to be missing. These is no option to install another distro.
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Raspberry Pi 4 CanaKit - Micro SD Card - Do Not Format

I just bought a Raspberry CanaKit for Raspberry Pi 4 with all the latest features, and the Micro SD comes already preloaded with NOOBS (Gotta love that acronym) and backup files it appears, so why ...
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Install RPi OS from a zip file (No image)

I have a new RPi 4 and I have installed NOOBS from a zip due to the fact that I cannot install software on my computer as it is loaned from my school (i.e. image writing software) However, once ...
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Can not delete process on Raspbian in order to remove default user

I'm trying to delete default pi user, i've tried many things but it seems that i can't have him removed. This is what i do delete processes of pi user sudo pkill -u pi delete user sudo deluser pi ...
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Bus error raspberry pi

I have a function make_model() which works fine everywhere and I ran it on my raspberry pi in the morning and it worked fine but now it gets the following error: Using TensorFlow backend. 2020-07-11 ...
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LibreELEC_RPi4 (System.tar.xz) unzipped changes to config.txt

trying to connect Pi4 to a Hitachi TV (pretty old - mid 2000's), however it has the HDMI port. So my Pi4 is connected. SD card is with OS's on it (NOOBS). Any idea why Pi4 is not booting up? I have ...
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PINN no internet connection after hard reset

I have recently installed and configured a new server on my raspberry pi 3B. I used PINN as my bootloader and installed some OSes (Fedberry - an Raspberry Fedora implementation - being the main one). ...
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No video output on my new Raspberry 4 B

I just received my new RPI 4. Before I was running RPI 3 B+. I have: - formatted the same SD with SD Card Formatter for mac - download Noobs - extracted all files on SD - inserted SD on my ...
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Noobs wireless detection

Im reinstalling my raspberry and once i inicialize noobs and search for networks it does not detect my home network but it detects my neighbours. Once it install the raspbian OS, the OS already ...
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No available Audio Device after switch from NOOBS to Raspbian Stretch

my program uses Pygame to play sounds. I used Noobs before and my program worked fine in Thonny. Now, i switched to Raspbian Full Stretch and now I get the error No available Audio Device. I already ...
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PI3 b+ - NOOBS 2.7/2.8/3.0

I have a problem with my new Raspberry. I have 3 devices to play a video from a website 24/7. One of them freezes many times after hours. Temperature is about 50°C, I use Chromium v65, use VNC, no ...
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Strange Issues with Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+

I'm experiencing very strange issues with my recently acquired pi. It will only boot some of the time. I installed NOOBS, and through that Libreelec, which worked fine. Tried to install berry boot, ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 detecting Wi-Fi but unable to connect

I've recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 3, and after gathering all the components required, I've started to set it up. I used NOOBS to install Raspbian, and it worked fine-- that is, until I tried to ...
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DHT22 Sensor not working

I'm using a Pi 3 running Raspbian with a DHT22 sensor. When I run the DHT22 code: import Adafruit_DHT from time import sleep DELAY_INTERVAL = 0.3 dht_sensor = Adafruit_DHT.DHT22 DHT_PIN = 4 while ...
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Reload pi without NOOBS (e.g. via apt-get)

I had a pi running nicely until I rebooted it. Since then it won't mount cifs drives and I can't think of any other thing to do except start over. If you can't sleep read this descent into ...
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Can't get past rainbow screen with Kali install process

I am new (to all of this, Pis, Linux, etc). This is my first real attempt at working directly with hardware as well. I needed a new project so I got a Canakit started set which came with a Raspi 3B+,...
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noobs behind a proxy

I downloaded noobs 2.7, and inserted the sd card into the raspberry pi2. I only see the Raspbian operating system because the raspberry is behind a proxy and can not connect to the internet. How can i ...
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Automatic OS provisioning on raspberry pi

I am doing some testings on RPi3 and I need a way to have clean OS installation after each testing. I am currently using NOOBS to deploy my OS and by default, after reboot, RPi will go into OS instead ...
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end kernel not syncing: vfs: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (179,2)

I'm new into the Raspberry world and in need of some help. Looking to see if anyone shed some light on the above message I'm receiving. I have new RPI3, erased 32gb card using SD formatter & ...
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Can't SSH to rPi

I just installed a fresh SD Card with Noobs 2.3, changed to silentinstall in recovery.cmdline and did all the other steps in Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display but now it doesn't work. The ...
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Raspberry PI 3 Model B+ resetting after every reboot

My RPi 3 resets itself after every reboot. All my settings, customizations etc are lost. Keyboard layouts, date/time setting, setting in the sudo raspi-config (camera setting etc), desktop ...
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avahi-daemon fails to start at start-up

My RPI is running on NOOBS. avahi-daemon fails to start at start-up I need to do sudo service dbus start sudo service avahi-daemon start to start it. How can I start dbus before avahi-daemon at ...
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RASPI cannot detect LCD resistive eGalax Touchscreen

Hi i am facing a wierd problem , wherein the touchscreen resistive LCD which i was able to interface with RASPI is not at all detected by raspi now . The Following post which i created earlier at www....
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Downloading OS system taking too long

I have recently acquired a Raspberry Pi 4B and I have just tried set it up with NOOBS on the SD card the whole process ran smoothly until the download of Raspbian began. I waited for an hour and only ...
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