Questions tagged [pi-zero-w]
For questions specific to the Pi-Zero W (with WiFi and Bluetooth)
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Connecting Raspberry Pi Zero W to wifi
I've just set up a Raspberry Pi Zero W - my first Raspberry Pi. I've loaded Raspbian into it without trouble, but I can't connect it to WiFi. It can find my home network easily, and lets me key in ...
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AirPrinting to Wireless Print Server on the Raspberry Pi Zero W
I've setup my RPi Zero W as a Wireless Print Server (with cups, samba packages) for an old HP LaserJet and it works great. Prints from my Windows laptop are nearly instantaneous.
I then installed ...
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Compatibility With GSM/GPRS A6
I'm working with an A06 V2 connected to a Pi zero. Using AT commands to send
SMS functions correctly.
I try to send MMS using CMMSXXXX commands There is problem. The first commande must by AT+...
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Is it advisable to use an SD from Pi Zero in a Pi Zero W?
I have an SD card which was painstakingly set up with various functionality (e.g. necessary packages, settings, etc...) on a Raspberry Pi Zero.
Now I want to replace the Zero with the Zero W (so I ...
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Cloned Raspi Zero W boots into Emergency Mode
I have a Raspi (3+) that for whatever reason I need to clone to use as a temporary backup for downtime later on. After realising the effort needed to recreate it from scratch, I cloned its entire SD ...
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Determine if wifi has been fried
I have been using a Raspberry Pi Zero W for the last few weeks, and have it set up to connect to a hotspot automatically. Yesterday, I was using the GPIO pins to drive an L293D motor controller -- ...
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slideshow (png+mp4) and faster boot
I have rpi zero w as my photo frame project.
It is an raspberry pi zero w + spi display 320x480 (via framebuffer) and raspbian lite (no X11)
I am using FBI to display images in slideshow manner, and ...
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raspberry pi zero audio output
I want something like JustBoom DAC Zero pHAT but there are no additional pins for something else. I'm noob in prototyping. What i have to do?
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How to install noobs after trying to install rasbian with pre-configured noobs
I just bought an Raspberry Pi Zero unit that came with Vilros utils.
I get within the package a 16gb SD-Card that was pre installed with NOOBS.
When I received the package, I looked inside the SD-...
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Generating multiple square waves simultaneously
I'm trying to generate 2 simultaneous square waves (50% duty cycle PWM signals) to step two stepper motors (STEP signal to separate motor drivers) on the Raspberry Pi Zero W. I use GPIO12 and GPIO19, ...
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Bluetooth speaker registers as keyboard
I have a small Bluetooth speaker that I was given that I want to use for a project with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. There is no model information on the speaker. I can connect to the speaker from my phone ...
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connect a headless raspberry pi zero to a WPA2 Mixed WiFi network
I'm trying to connect my rpi zero in a headless mode into a WIFI network configured in a WPA mixed mode.
More specifically I can get the following info from the router.
Security-Mode: WPA2-Mixed
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Motioneye on Raspberry Pi Zero
I've installed Motioneye on a Raspberry Pi Zero and connected a camera. I can get it to detect motion, and take an image in response to detected motion. Unfortunately, images are being saved to the ...
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Raspi Zero W broken?
I got a Raspi Zero W which I unwrapped myself today. I flashed a Micro SD with the latest Raspbian Stretch Lite, put it into the card slot and hooked it to a 5V 1.2A power cable I've been previously ...
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T-Cobbler Plus for Pi Zero W?
I'm looking at getting a T-Cobbler Plus as shown here. For my project I was thinking of using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and my question is whether the T-Cobbler will work with the Zero W? The description ...
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Serial communication doesn't work RPI--ARDUINO uart
i want to use serial communication to send data from an arduino nano to a raspberry zero w,
the pi uses Kivy-os but that wouldn't matter.
I used this code
import serial
port = serial.Serial("/dev/...
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Advice on thermal cameras
I'm thinking about getting a thermal camera for my Pi Zero. Anyone know what I should look for? Can I use the Melexis MLX90640 32x24 or the Flir Lepton 80x64?
I just want to plug, simple and easy ...
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Wake on LAN alternatives?
I am attempting to set up my Pi-0-w to wake up a computer on a local network. However, Wake-on-LAN is not an option. Does anyone have ideas for an alternative? Perhaps a way to wake through a USB ...
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interface bmc280 & tsl2561 together [closed]
I am trying to interface bmc280 & tsl2561 together with Pi Zero. I have connected bmc280 to Pi Zero on Pin 3-I2C.1 SDA & Pin 5-I2C.1 SCL and was able to read the data over i2c. Also want to ...
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How to wake PC from suspend — via USB with Pi-0 in Gadget mode?
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero and I am attempting to use it to wake up a computer. Wake-on-LAN is not an option in this case.
I have configured the Pi to function as a USB keyboard in gadget mode by ...
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Raspberry Pi Zero W Alexa Microphone Not detecting, but speaker works
So I have looked online and I even got different mics and adapters to get this working, but it still doesn't work. I was able to successfully setup my Alexa Pi on the RPi Zero W, because when I boot ...
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No wifi or bluetooth on raspberry pi zero w
I have bought a raspberry pi zero w and performed the headless setup and used ssh to connect to my pc.But it does not detect the wifi interface and always gives 'No wireless interface found' when i ...
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Touch screen functionality not working on raspberry pi zero w and 5 inch lcd screen
I have a raspberry pi zero w and a 5 inch lcd touch screen with hdmi.
I have the raspberry pi connected to the screen by HDMI. I am running the latest raspian OS on it.
It boots up and starts just ...
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Trouble with using RPi Zero W as USB keyboard
I'm using a RPi Zero W for this exercise. I downloaded 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.zip and installed it onto a 32G microSD card:
sudo dd bs=4M if=2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.img of=/dev/...
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Setting Up Wifi Stretch Lite (Command line) [duplicate]
I am using the following command
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
and my file looks like this
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=GB
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Choosing a transistor/mosfet in order to drive Peltier element from a RPI zero
I just found these two (1,2) low power consuming Peltier elements that I would like to include them to my project. What I'm planning to do is to drive them until to reach some specific temperature e.g ...
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Pi Zero W - cgroup_cpuset not available
Even though the contents of /boot/cmdline.txt seem right...
$ cat /boot/cmdline.txt
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=a435ca9f-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=...
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Pi 3 and Pi Zero combination for blob tracking with multiple cameras
I would like to do blob tracking with Kalman filter in OpenCV using multiple cameras. It seems I can attach two cameras to Pi 3. However, I would like to use even more cameras. The goal is to cover as ...
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Raspberry Pi not detecting MPU6050 with i2cdetect
I am trying to connect my GY-521 MPU6050 to my Raspberry Pi Zero W using I2C detect but I'm unable to find the MPU6050 on the table.
The results using i2cdetect:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo i2cdetect -...
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Pi Zero W cannot get to connect to wifi
I have created the ssh file with no extension and the wpa_supplicant.conf file with the following code in it:
country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
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I2S Recording combined with I2S Playback
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero and I am using the Adafruit I2S MEMS Microphone together with the ADAFRUIT I2S 3W CLASS D AMPLIFIER BREAKOUT - MAX98357A.
I did follow the two respective tutorials and I ...
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Rasberry pi Zero W USB Hub Driver?
Is it mandatory to use powered USB hub with pi-zero-w...?
I've two good quality USB Hub, that works just fine with my windows PC.
But, when I connect to the Pi, it supports only "one Device".
While, ...
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Is splitting a wire off of a single 5V pin the same as using two 5V pins? [duplicate]
In other words, is two 5V pins plugged into two pins on another device (say a 16x2 LCD display) different or the same as using one 5V pin on the pi and splitting it to two pins on the LCD?
For more ...
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Can it be an issue to record videos directly on the SD card of a Raspberry Pi?
I am using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and the picam v2 to record videos continuously for several days. Files recorded are only 5-minute long. Can I save files on the SD card directly, or should I use an ...
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PiTFT Boots to Black with fbcp
I recently purchased an Adafruit PiTFT Plus 320x240 3.2" Resistive Touch display. Using their Easy Install instructions I can successfully boot to a text console, but when I run their script again to ...
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How do you use both USB Serial Gadget and UART on Pi Zero?
Just like the title says, I want to use both the GPIO UART and the USB Gadget at the same time.
Background: I've been working on modding up one of the Adafruit IoT printer projects, which uses the pi ...
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Wiring Omron D6T Thermal Sensor to Raspberry Pi Zero W with Adafruit T-Cobbler Plus
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W connected to a Adafruit T-Cobbler Plus and breadboard. My question is regarding wiring. I have followed tutorials to create simple circuits, however, I am struggling to ...
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How can I get /dev/i2c-* devices to appear on Alpine Linux?
I have loaded the appropriate kernel modules and set them to load upon boot (i2c-dev and i2c_bcm2835). A call to lsmod confirms that they do indeed load on boot. But alas, I don't see any i2c devices ...
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Is it safe to use this battery with the Raspberry Pi Zero?
I have two questions actually:
1) is it safe to use this battery and these wires with the raspberry pi zero?
2) if yes, where do i solder the highlighted (red square) ends to the zero board?
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Raspberry Pi Zero as webcam
I read some case, like using dwc2 and g_webcam in /boot/config and cmdline. but hard to understand and doesn't work. and can't find a tutorial, there are some tutorials only about serial and ethernet.
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Variation in Performance Between Identical Raspberry Pis
The Question:
Does anyone else also experience such a large difference in power between Pi Zeros?
So, I have two Pies: Both model Raspberry Pi Zero W
The Setup:
Pi 1 Setup:
Nothing but Adafruit ...
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What to use as device path for sysfs binding ttyS0 to custom kernel module?
I'm currently trying to bind a custom kernel module to ttyS0 of my Raspberry Pi Zero WH.
With raspi-config I set the Interface Options for Serial to
The serial login shell is disabled
The serial ...
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Using a Raspberry Pi Zero W to track location and steps data
I'm working on a project where I use a Raspberry Pi Zero W to track the location and calculate the number of steps the user takes. This is for a step tracking website/app I am working on where people ...
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/boot/wpa_config being copied with wrong permission
I plug the micro SD into my MacBook. I then save a correct /Volumes/boot/wpa_supplicant.conf with file permissions with 777 (default when creating files into the FAT partition). Then, when I move back ...
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“Raspberry Pi Zero W” version Help
Can anyone help me about "Raspberry pi zero w" version 1.1?
I recently ordered my first Raspberry Pi Zero W (1.3), But I got Pi Zero W (1.1).
There are many difference between them...
But I know ...
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What is the maximum clients a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ access point can handle?
I have setup a RPi 3B+ as access point using this tutorial:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point.md
I have a few dozens of RPi Zero's that connect to the AP. ...
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Upnp for Rpi zero w with pi cam
I am trying to implement the upnp on my RPI ip cam. The goal is to make it portable so I can use it anywhere (with just the wifi SSID and pwd) without having to port forward everytime I have to deal ...
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Adafruit_Nokia_LCD module on Raspberry Pi Zero W
I'm stuck with this Adafruit module. I was able to install without errors on a Pi2, but when I tried to replicate on my Zero W the installation goes fine but then I cannot import the module ("...
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Understanding the GPIO pins
I've not yet got into the GPIO pins. Can someone help me understand how they work? Are some of them special in some way? Do certain pins produce certain polarities or is that software defined? What ...
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Pi Zero W Wifi repeater with OpenVPN
Im trying to setup a Pi Zero W as a wifi repeater with openVPN without using a USB wifi dongle, as a tiny travel router.
I tried using this tutorial - by @ingo raspberry-pi-zero-w-as-a-wifi-repeater ...
