The Raspberry Pi Thread [3]

caperjack said:

do you still need the female to female wire, If yes, I will be over tomorrow after noon with it.
is there anything else you need that I might have , I got 10 of these today[and will never use a 10 I'm sure ] to use for reset ,and shutdown buttons .
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Don't need the jumper, new ones on the way. I'll take one of those switches since your offering though, thanks.

No problem, thanks for the heads up.

Pimoroni piano hat ..
who that, playing my piano .lol
still can get the skywriter hat working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHSw...ature=youtu.be

just found this site ,seems to have a lot of basic Pi info and instructions .. site a little old maybe for some stuff
TeCoEd (Teaching Computing Education) - Home

just for the record and my memory ,it is rc.local that I used to set the sense hat to run at bootup

Video not found for the youtube link.
rc.local was the way I used to auto run my python file. It worked but had side effects. crontab Is how I do it now.
Bookmarked that site for later perusal.
Having a few rum + cokes at the moment.

Still having an issue with my UV sensor. It quit on my twice today. I changed some of my code though and will try that. The example file had a line that divided it by 100, not sure why?
This what I was using

Code:

    UV = sensor.readUV()
    u = UV / 100.0

I was getting readings of 0.03 etc so I changed it to this

Code:

    u = sensor.readUV()
    u = int(round (u))

Now I get reading of 2 or 3, (in the house) which makes more sense. Will have to just run it like that for a while to see what happens. It only seems to crape out when I have it out in the sun running on battery. Need to do some more testing to see what's up. I saw a few posts on Adafruit with the same 0.0 indication issue. They said replacing the sensor fixed it. I started my own thread but haven't gotten any replies yet.

My other Adafruit order arrived today. I'm just imaging a spare SD card with Jessie for my new PI Zero W. Likely won't boot it up tonight though. I'll play with it tomorrow.

I get a black box with a red smiley : / and a "This video is unavailable" "sorry about that".

An admin posted to my thread on Adafruit, told me to contact support for a new UV sensor. =)