The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

caperjack said:

I don't use mine enough to notice something like that .but will keep it in mind for when i do get it hooked up and use it more regular ....

It was something that kind of annoyed me. I'd know from the songs played it wasn't Classic Rock 109. Just didn't know what channel it was? I'd have to listen for them to ID themselves and then do a channel up down to get back to Classic Rock 109. I have a printout of my playlist sitting right in front of my Pirate Radio. I toyed with editing my playlist to just the one station but every once in a while I do listen to some of the others. I also think having to hit the up down button to start it was changing the channel on me sometimes. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. My next mod may be adding a small display that's shows the channel and the song playing.

My Pimoroni order arrived. Did a quick boot up of my 3B+ to make sure it works. Then got my soldering iron out and removed that POE header that I will never use on this Pi. Still had a lot of modifications to do to my Pibow Midnight Eclipse case to get the 3B+ to fit in it. I bought a Pibow Ninja Coupe for the 3B+ hoping it would be that same black color buts not an exact match. I was going to just swap the one layer into my Midnight Eclipse. Didn't work out that way though. I only hade to trim out that one layer with all the weird zigs and zags in it. The top one that I had already cut for the heatsink lined up perfectly. The locking bars on the CSI and DSI ZIF connectors are black on this Pi and will look better. The ones on the 3B were white. Now I just have to go find my camera and take a pic before I remount it.

Got it all mounted and hooked up in my bread board rig. Pi foundation screen works, WIFI is working on my 5G channel. USB is good as far as I can tell, keyboard works. Will have to test the camera when I get a chance. And the sound I guess. The suns finally come out so maybe latter on if it worms up I'll take it out on my beck and put it through its passes.

. Anybody want to buy a Pibow Ninja coupe case for a 3B+ https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/p...ry-pi-3-b-plus :) Brand new but not in its original packaging lol

Scratch that, from the description it looks like it will fit my 3B so maybe I better hang on to it.

Wired up my BME680 to my portable weather clock. Took me a little while to get my python code working. The examples on the Pimoroni GitHub site didn't really work all that well for me. They might have if I knew a little more Python to sort out what they were trying to display. In the end simplifying them worked. Stuff like this

Code:

  output = "{0:.2f} C,{1:.2f} hPa,{2:.2f} %RH".format(sensor.data.temperature, sensor.data.pressure, sensor.data.humidity)

had me
But I split it up and simplified so as an example, this worked for the temp

Code:

  if sensor.get_sensor_data(): 
       t = (sensor.data.temperature) 
       t = (round(t))

I was a while getting there though. I still have no idea what the "{0:.2f} " etc stuff does, except give me all kinds or weird errors I've never seen before lol.

caperjack said:

I have at least 2 ,maybe 3 unused cases

I have one Pibow for an A+ unused and that's about it. If the 3A is ever released an A+ will go back into it when I swap it out for the 3A+.

It's working so I'm happy, and I didn't lose any functionality in the process. All my colored text works and auto dimming etc. Next mod will be to replace the sense hat with a Unicorn Hat HD. The only thing I'm using on it, in my portable weather clock is the LED matrix. And I guess the joystick? I'd have to take the front cover off to get at it so its not really used now.


My Pirate Radio is starting up on Classic Rock 109 every time now, and playing on its own. All I have to do is press the RUN button, a wait a little bit for it to boot up. The "wait for network" option was the fix.=)