Questions tagged [pi-zero-w]
For questions specific to the Pi-Zero W (with WiFi and Bluetooth)
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Is RPi.GPIO included in Raspbian?
I'm working through this tutorial, and it says to manually, and I mean manually, install RPi.GPIO:
cd /home/pi/Downloads
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/RPi.GPIO/RPi.GPIO-0.5.11.tar.gz
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Pi Zero W - cracked 4r7 box
The "4r7" box on the mainboard of this Pi Zero W is cracked and the insides are exposed. It seems to be working fine.
My questions are:
What is this?
Is it ok that it's exposed?
Is there something ...
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Has anyone solved Raspberry Pi Zero W SSH: `client_loop: send disconnect: broken pipe/timeout/Connection reset`
I know this has been voiced before, but the most recent I've found was in 2020 and it wasn't resolved then, so I'm signal-boosting in the hope that an answer has been discovered and just wasn't posted....
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Pi Zero W rotate terminal
I'm using a CLI only interface with the pi zero W, and wanted to use an older monitor, which doesn't have the ability to rotate the screen itself. Since it's command line only the "$DISPLAY" ...
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BlueZ Profile RequireAuthentication=False not working when trying to initiate connection without pairing
Following up from this question:
How can I open a connection to my Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth without having to pair?
I am trying to connect from my Windows Laptop to my Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth ...
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How can I open a connection to my Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth without having to pair?
I'm extremely new to Raspberry Pi and Bluetooth in general and have been having some trouble and confusion connecting between my computer and Pi programmatically.
I'm trying to open a Bluetooth ...
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Pi zero W eating 1600 mAh battery in few minutes
I'm not sure if this is standard behaviour or whether I'm doing something wrong.
I wanted to have a pizerow operating remotely on my roof without the need to bring electricity there. The plan was to ...
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Raspberry Pi Networking
I currently have a raspberry pi4B (p0) with four raspberry pi Zeros (p1-4) all conected to the pi0 via USB (using usb gadget mode for a network connection). To be specific i'm using a pi Cluster Hat.
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How do i make my raspberry pi zero w a wifi adapter
So my computer doesn't have wireless so i was wondering, is there a way my pi 0 W can share it's connection with my PC though USB
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Can I power a Raspberry Pi Zero and use the data connectors on a MicroUSB header at the same time?
Curious to see if this is possible as I have two USB data connections I want to use simultaneously on the Pi.
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ClamAV Error for scanning
I'm trying to install ClamAV on my pi zero. Which is an antivirus program.
I ran the command :
sudo apt install clamav
Then I typed in:
clamscan
But it said:
LibClamAV Error: cli_loaddbdir(): ...
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Controlling Raspberry PI zero device over the internet
I have five Raspberry Pi zero W devices and each device connected to 4 channel relay module. These five devices are in different locations and connected to the internet. We wrote a python program to ...
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Can one run a Raspbery Pi Zero W at load continuously?
I want to use a RPi Zero W to drive a display. This will be putting the CPU on-load pretty much 24/7.
Can it handle having load near-continuously? I do have a small metal heat sink on the CPU.
I ...
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Initialize CSPRNG on boot to bootstrap entropy faster
I found that when using the firebase_admin library, first time runs of my script would error running, but would eventually start working.
The problem has been isolated to the way the Python ...
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Connect to Pi zero to Pi3 through wifi and share files
Following setup:
One RaspberryPi 3 which opens a wifi AP
One Pi Zero W which connects directly to the hosted AP
Both run stretch, ssh is enabled.
This works so far, the pi zero connects to the pi3.
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Supply 3.3V sensors using GPIO pins
I am using a RPI zero to receive some data from sensors.
All these sensors use 3.3V supply.
A teacher gave the idea of using the GPIO pins(not the VCC's itself) to supply power to the sensors, so ...
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Pi Zero W freezes/crashes/hangs from day 1
I have finally made the step and bought myself a Pi Zero W a few days ago. During the last 10 years or so, I have worked with multiple microcontrollers but never with a Raspberry computer. Hence, I ...
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ssh over USB only works on a single macbook
Recently, I received a RPI zero w for a potential side-project at work, mounted the latest raspbian image to it and set it up for ssh'ing via USB using this tutorial. I was unsuccessful in ssh'ing ...
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Rpi 0 W, wifi no scan results
I have this freshly bought Raspberry Pi 0 W.
I created a USB connection between the rpi and my laptop (ubuntu 20.04) and I ssh-ed into the rpi.
The OS on the pi is Raspberry OS Lite.
Using a microSDHC ...
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How to daisy chain the power across two Pi's
Similar to Can I power a Pi through a 5V pin?, but I want to acquire the 5V power source from another Pi. The first Pi gets its power via micro USB, and then I want to use pins 2 and 6 from that to ...
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What happens when you overload the 5V pin on Zero W
I am trying to work out what will happen if I power too many NeoPixels from the 5V pin on a Zero.
I understand from the Uberguide that this is the calculation required to work out the power draw:
To ...
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Share Uart Pins
In my build i have a gsm module ( SIM800L ) connected to a RPI 0 W in this way:
I would like to get also the current position of my device, for do so i was thinking to buy a Gps module ( NEO-6M STM32 ...
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Issue connecting raspberry pi to android via Wifi p2p
I'm working on connecting a Raspberry Pi Zero W to an android device and having some issues. I think I am very close to getting it to work, but perhaps there is some small error.
So I followed the ...
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Intermittent Wifi
I have a Pi Zero W running a fully up-to-date version of Raspbian (buster).
For some reason, the Zero isn't reliably connecting to my wifi. I followed the wifi configuration steps here. I've also ...
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why doesn't the [dtoverlay=dht22,gpiopin=xx] way not work, when Python on pin 21 does?
Trying to get a DHT22 sensor to work on a Raspberry Pi ZERO WH running BUSTER. The demo Python program works on pin 21 (4 is in use by my DS18B20 sensors.) I tried the dtoverlay method, but I don't ...
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Can I boot with a nfsroot over a wireless network?
I've recently been transitioning the various Raspberry Pis on my (wired) network over to use NFS root filesystems rather than mounting them from the SD cards, to avoid the assorted known problems with ...
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Set WiFi Adapter as Eth0
I have an issue setting up my wifi adapter. To initally set up my raspberry pi zero w I used an old Wifi Pineapple from Hak5 to give the rpi W access to the internet. The Wifi Pineapple uses internet ...
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Will SDIO-mode second SD card conflict with integrated WiFi?
One is able to add a second SD card on RasPis by activating the SDIO interface.
However, on the Pi 3 and Pi Zero, the integrated WiFi is connected via SDIO.
Can you have both at the same time?
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Start a pyhton script, which depends on I2S as soon as possible during the startup of my Raspberrypi
I have the following systemd service, which starts a systemd service as soon as I boot my raspberrypi:
[Unit]
Description=MyService
DefaultDependencies=false
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Environment=SERVICE_HOME=/home/...
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Connecting Raspberry Pi Zeros over Ethernet
I'm attempting to set up a simple network made up of two raspberry pi zeros, one with wifi to access over ssh by another computer and then communication between the two pis using Ethernet. To set up ...
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Controlling 28 invidivual leds with a raspberry Pi Zero
I want to do a what I hope is a simple project. Making a led light clock built into a plank.
Basically I'm planning on cutting 28 slots in a piece of wood, and placing a small LED light in each slot, ...
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Mini UART Bluetooth PAN on Pi Zero W
I followed these instructions to enable a Bluetooth PAN on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. It mostly works fine, but it occupies a serial port. I need UART (mounted at /dev/ttyAMA0) for serial communications, ...
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Extremely slow ssh on RPi Zero W
I have installed
postfix
dovecot
fail2ban
postgray
daemons on top of the
Linux mail 4.14.98+ #1200 Tue Feb 12 20:11:02 GMT 2019 armv6l GNU/Linux
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Can't find /boot nor etc folder in downloaded NOOBS in SD Card. Need to add wpa_supplicant.conf file to connect to wifi on first boot in headless mode
I have downloaded NOOBS on an SD Card to install in my Raspberry Pi Zero W. I will boot it for the first time in headless mode (because I do not have access to an HDMI monitor) and for that i need to ...
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How can I diagnose a headless Raspberry Pi Zero W that hangs?
I'm trying to run my Pi Zero W as a motion detecting camera using RPI cam web interface but it keeps hanging after a few hours at most. Before it hangs, it can record motion detect videos and upload ...
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DNS finds ip but cannot ping address
New to this so sorry for any mistakes.
I’m trying to get my Raspberry Pi Zero to ping ‘www.google.com’ but I just get 100% packet loss. I can ping 8.8.8.8 perfectly fine, as well as my home router ...
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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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/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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Can't SSH into Raspberry pi zero after reinstallation of Raspbian in sd card
I am new to working with the Raspberry Pi Zero. The first time I installed the Raspbian image into the memory card for a headless setup I created a file named just ssh and then I was able to ssh into ...
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Troubleshooting a non-working USB port
To clarify, the USB port once worked, but I think I've borked it.
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Been working great and I'm using it for a Game Boy Zero project, so loaded RetroPi on an SD card and ...
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First setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W
I've just bought a new Raspberry Pi Zero W v1.1 2017 and i already have a connection problem with putty over ssh.
Things i've done so far:
downloaded 2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch.img and burned with ...
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Is there a way to make pi zero w's Bluetooth visible on other devices?
I know that questions are supposed to involve code but coming from someone who has never used a pi, the linux environment, or python before, is there a way to write a python script using pybluez to ...
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New RPi Zero W - Screen flickers
I got a new RPi Zero W :)
Fresh installed Raspbian Jessy on a new 16GB SD.
All went good, including connection to wifi, and Logitec 2.4GHz mouse and keyboard.
after that- from time to time, screen ...
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Power Issue with RPi Zero - Is my Pi Dead?
For the last week I've had trouble powering up my new Pi. Initially I tried booting Raspbian while powering the board using a USB cable, but the activity light would not flash at all. I then tried ...
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Having both a WiFi client and an Access Point on Pi Zero
I have read this thread:rpi-zero-w-as-both-wifi-client-and-access-point
And I have followed the instructions in this post:raspberry-pi-3-wifi-station-ap
Initially, I was getting errors on the AP but ...
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Pi Zero W WiFi interference with TTY
I've run into some issues with the new Pi zero W. First I tried to run an image of raspbian from 11-1-17' but that did nothing. Well, it booted but couldn't set up a Wi-Fi network.
So I've installed a ...
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Raspberry Pi spidev CLK working but no signal on MOSI
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W that uses this LCD screen, including its touch interface using SPI0.
What I am trying to achieve is to add another SPI device that uses SPI0. I am able to successfully ...
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No DHCP response with USB ethernet
I'm using a usb to ethernet with my Raspberry Zero W but it doesn't get any IP (usb0 interface):
rogermiranda1000@raspberrypi:~ $ ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
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Pi Zero - GPIO Lag
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I have been trying to write a robot tank using a Raspberry Pi Zero W in Python and am running into an issue wrt to lag. The left motor moves 100-500ms before the right motor (or vice versa), ...
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Nintendo Switch thinks RPi-hosted WiFi Network has a captive portal when it doesn't?
I have a hostapd/dnsmasq WiFi network hosted by my Pi Zero W. I have it so I can play multiplayer video games with friends when no WiFi is available. It does not have internet access. For the Nintendo ...
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