The Raspberry Pi Thread [5]

I'll box mine up some time today, just a few more things to check. I know the Pi 4 in it is OK, I've been tinkering with that for a month or more. I was testing out with those screen size defaults. Small screen gets everything nicely on screen. A bit too small though to use the touch, at least with my knubby fingers it is. It's likely OK with a stylus. Medium seems to be what the default is. That makes things a little to big IMHO. Shutdown is annoyingly off the bottom of the screen when you open the menu. You have to scroll down to see it.
At some point I think I'm going to try and mount one of these where the camera is supposed to go. I've been meaning to buy one and this gives me an excuse.
http://https://shop.pimoroni.com/pro...kball-breakout
And set the button function up for right click. Maybe set the back light up as CPU temp or status or something.

I caught them before the second one was shipped. I thought it had already shipped but it was "preparing for dispatch". I mixed up what e-mail I got, it was the order received not the order shipped.
I just boxed up the Pi 4 + touch screen and put it away. Fan is a bit noisy, not annoyingly so but you definitely know its running. I'm just cleaning up a few lose ends now after swapping some SD Cards around. Doing updates and my custom tweaks to some of my Pi 3B+'s. I have one of those stylus around here somewhere. Bigish rubber nubby on the end. Its about as accurate as your finger tip is, but doesn't leave any fingerprints behind.

I bought one of those Pibow Vesa mount thingys. None of my monitors have a vesa mount on the back though. My TV does but thats about it.
I'm not sure what's up with that Micro SD card? I used SDcard Formatter and it formats just fine? Etcher flashes and verifies fine too? Put it in my Pi 3B+ and nothing? No activity at all? In a PI 4 I just get the 4 green flashes over and over, what you get with no card in it. I guess I'll just bin it so I don't mix it up with a working one. I even did a clean all from diskpart on my Windows PC before formatting it.

I think my version 1 Official Pi Camera may be having issues? I've had it for a while so it doesn't really own me anything. It's been knocked around a bit to. Anyway, its the one I have on my pan tilt that looks outside. It's just now going kind of funky on me, lots of blue tinge in the video. It's blue of maybe green, hard to tell with my eye's lol. It's defiantly not normal colors. It is approaching dusk but I don't remeber seeing this before? It's the only version 1 I have left now so I guess its time to replace it with a version 2.

EDIT: Maybe it was the sunset doing it? Its darker now and it looks normal again? Must have been a hue cast on things by the sunset? It's looking out the front of my house and the sun sets on the back of the house.

Sun sets could do that I think,, I should get off my butt and set up my camera ,and some other stuff,,,instead of watching CNN all day.

alphanumeric said:

I think my version 1 Official Pi Camera may be having issues? I've had it for a while so it doesn't really own me anything. It's been knocked around a bit to. Anyway, its the one I have on my pan tilt that looks outside. It's just now going kind of funky on me, lots of blue tinge in the video. It's blue of maybe green, hard to tell with my eye's lol. It's defiantly not normal colors. It is approaching dusk but I don't remeber seeing this before? It's the only version 1 I have left now so I guess its time to replace it with a version 2.

EDIT: Maybe it was the sunset doing it? Its darker now and it looks normal again? Must have been a hue cast on things by the sunset? It's looking out the front of my house and the sun sets on the back of the house.