Re: [Dorset] Open for Business at Wuthering Bytes

Shame Hebden Bridge is not in Dorset. P. On 27/08/16 12:37, Andres Baravalle wrote: Open for Business is an annual one day conference hosted by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and Open Source Consortium, that aims to explore key themes in open source software as they relate to service

Re: [Dorset] Moving POP3 Suppliers with Thunderbird.

On 15/01/2020 17:30, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi Ralph On 15/01/2020 17:17, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, A Thunderbird question;  I've not used it. Thunderbird is happily fetching mail from a POP3 account. The supplier of the account is going to start storing emails sent to the account on

Re: [Dorset] Windows 10 has less vulnerabilities than Linux!

My tablet gave me a news briefing this morning about the problems with the latest W10 cumulative update and how people/businesses are getting BSOD and other problems. Unfortunately from this PC I cannot find the same article. Peter On 09/03/2020 07:15, Terry Coles wrote: Aren't statistics a

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

On 25/03/2020 10:53, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday, 23 March 2020 16:47:37 GMT Tim Waugh wrote: In case you haven't seen stories about this elsewhere, I thought I'd share a couple of projects which may help us all out of this mess by harnessing otherwise-idle CPU/GPU time.

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

I would like to help, but my computer is not very powerful -Computer- Processor        : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3420 @ 3.20GHz Memory        : 8037MB (4978MB used) Machine Type        : Desktop Operating System        : Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS User Name        : peterm (Peter Merchant) Date/Time     

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu accessing Google drive files

It looks like I had it half there without knowing it, but things have changed since December '19 " Google have recently increased the security on Google Accounts by denying access to many apps and services that previously had access to google accounts. Google announced forthcoming changes to

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu accessing Google drive files

On 28/04/2020 06:46, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Google have recently increased the security on Google Accounts by denying access to many apps and services that previously had access to google accounts. IIRC they want OAuth2 authentication done in a browser.

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu accessing Google drive files

On 28/04/2020 07:43, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday, 27 April 2020 20:08:30 BST PeterMerchant wrote: So it's not working now. Terry is lucky. Hmmm. So why is it working for me? I wasn't even aware of the increased security demanded by Google. Perhaps it's because I set up the credentials

[Dorset] Jitsi Webcams

One of the problems with my Jitsi session was the Webcam. This webcam has been successfully used with WhatsApp web video conferences.  vlc doesn't find it, but cheese does (without sound) I have another old webcam 'ov519' that used to work and still works on a R-Pi, and I resurrected that to

Re: [Dorset] General Use of Jitsi - DLUG

On 12/05/2020 11:21, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive, Usin the LUG link could help if anyone else is listening in and has a suggestion, maybe do that if we can't solve a problem. One further thought... Either of you may share your screen or a window on it so the other may see it which may help

Re: [Dorset] Second Online Meeting Tonight

On 05/05/2020 12:30, Terry Coles wrote: All, The second Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. For those who missed it last time; here are the Instructions for joining: Simply click on the following link and you will be taken to the Meeting using your default browser:

Re: [Dorset] Home PBX Resources.

A local company that one of my students runs used to implement Asterisk as a VOIP PBX in schools. It is a linux solution. Interesting that I found it here: https://www.ubuntupit.com/top-20-best-linux-voip-and-video-chat-software/ Peter On 07/05/2020 11:00, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - COVID-19 Situation

I was wondering about some kind of virtual meeting at the normal date and time, given homes now have fast Internet connections, but it would need some experimentation beforehand by someone who has time or experience. :-) I wonder if we could set up a WhatsApp group, and whether it could

Re: [Dorset] Some links

On 09/03/2020 14:55, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: So I finally got around to looking at d-feet. Looks really powerful, but I can't figure out how to use it. You have been d-feeted? P. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2020-04-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings,

Re: [Dorset] Hibernate in (K)Ubuntu

You made me do it.. I ran up my ancient Dell Inspiron 6000 (32 bit) running xubuntu 18.04, and it has a suspend feature, but no obvious hibernate. Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-05-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ...

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

On 23/05/2020 12:02, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:55:49 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: Fair enough, I used to like Amarok as well when I used KDE. A few months ago I installed KDE and Amarok was one of the first things I went looking at, not impressed. I think KDE lasted

Re: [Dorset] Slow computer

On 22/08/2020 12:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3420 @ 3.20GHz Memory: 8037MB (4978MB used) As you say, only two, non-HyperThreaded, cores, but plenty of RAM space. Are your main filesystems on a rusty hard drive rather than an SSD? I'm 

[Dorset] Slow computer

I notice that my computer takes nearly two minutes to boot in the morning and the first load of any program also takes a long time. I am running Kubuntu 20.04 on a dual core  homebuilt computer. Hardinfo gives: Processor        : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3420 @ 3.20GHz Memory        : 8037MB

Re: [Dorset] Slow computer

On 20/08/2020 09:36, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, $ systemd-analyze blame Please provide the output of systemd-analyze time systemd-analyze critical-chain peterm@peterm-MBB-34204H:~$ systemd-analyze time Startup finished in 3.412s (kernel) + 54.628s (userspace) = 58.041s

[Dorset] MQTT

Some of you know that over the past few years I have been playing with old RC cars stripping out the RC receivers and replacing them with Raspberry Pi computers and using Python,HTML, and Flask to drive the cars. Recently I came across MQTT and have now changed the software on the Pi to use

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

On 20/05/2020 11:10, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I've posted this as a question on Launchpad but with no useful response so far. The problem only started after I upgraded my system to Kubuntu 20.04. When I select 'Log Out', 'Shutdown' or 'Restart' from the KDE Menu, I don't use the menu to log

Re: [Dorset] KDE - How to Disable Plasma Widgets

On 23/10/2020 09:43, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, Recently I posted to the Ubuntu Forums regarding a Plasma Widget (Notes) that randomly drops Post-its on my desktop: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2452181 After four days, there has been no reply (there has been only one View and I

[Dorset] ROS2

Anybody have any experience with ROS2 Robot Operating System? I just came across it. https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/ Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

On 15/06/2020 11:36, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:06:01 BST Terry Coles wrote: Nowadays I try to avoid the problem by shrinking the original partition a bit before I dd it to create the image; you should be able to do it with GParted. Then, when I copy it to the new card,

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

On 15/06/2020 22:46, Andrew wrote: I've just remembered, for a Raspberry Pi you don't need to duplicate the entire contents of the µSD card - you can create a new partition table and filesystems (FAT32 for boot, EXT4 for root) on the blank µSD card and copy everything using regular file copy

[Dorset] New tools

Google gave me this article as part of the things that I see periodically. It is quite interesting about new tools to replace old ones. The whole journal/website looks interesting actually. https://opensource.com/article/20/6/modern-linux-command-line-tools Peter M. -- Next meeting:

Re: [Dorset] Internet Access Using Tethering

On 20/06/2020 10:53, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I've got something going on that I don't under stand (this is normal I hear you saying). I'm trying to test my Raspberry Pi VPN Server which is currently installed in my workroom. It has Internet access on one side via my Home Router and access to

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

On 16/06/2020 07:27, PeterMerchant wrote: On 15/06/2020 22:46, Andrew wrote: I've just remembered, for a Raspberry Pi you don't need to duplicate the entire contents of the µSD card - you can create a new partition table and filesystems (FAT32 for boot, EXT4 for root) on the blank µSD card

Re: [Dorset] Wireguard on RPi

Oh, found the cause. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/applications/rpi-update.md rpi-update is a command line application that will update your Raspberry Pi OS kernel and VideoCore firmware to the latest pre-release versions. WARNING: Pre-release

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

On 10/06/2020 15:54, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, So I tried to use etcher and it tells me that the image is too large for the destination card. Perhaps they're different sizes. Use ‘sudo lsblk -b’ to get a list of current block devices and their size in bytes. You can ignore the

[Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

I have been trying to duplicate a 16GB  MicroSD card to another and it hasn't worked. The original was a TDK 16GB card, which I copied to my computer with DD. I then tried to use DD to copy it to the Toshiba card, with an error message [now lost]. So I tried to use etcher and it tells me that

[Dorset] Help restoring MicroSD card

Hi, I was doing an upgrade to the OS on my Raspberry Pi and it failed, and now I cannot communicate with it. It still gets an IP address, but not the one it was configured to have. and ssh doesn't connect.  So I decided to start again, and used etcher to reflash it with the latest Raspbian

Re: [Dorset] Help restoring MicroSD card

On 18/07/2020 10:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Gparted  gives me 'Input/output error during read on /dev/sdb' That's an error from the kernel, returned using errno(3) EIO from a system call like read(2). Run ‘dmesg -Hxw’ in a terminal to show the end of the kernel's ring-buffer log.

Re: [Dorset] Help restoring MicroSD card

On 18/07/2020 09:44, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 18 July 2020 09:40:55 BST PeterMerchant wrote: No Joy. USB connection on front of computer. Have tried both USB to SD adapters and three different MicroSD adapters. It sounds like it's b*d, I think we had a discussion on this same

Re: [Dorset] Old Books - Junk?

I told my neighbour about this the other day when he mentioned he was cleaning out his loft and they collected all his old books, plus a few other bits, this morning. He didn't come by and get my books though. Peter On 06/01/2021 16:19, PeterMerchant wrote: I remembered books2africa

[Dorset] Arduino/ESP8266/Wemos programming problem

Hi, is there anyone here who is familiar with these devices, especially the Wemos D1. I am not skilled enough at programming to know what I have done wrong with my program, but it crashes and reboots. The language is not one that I am familiar with, and so much seems to be hidden in the OS. 

Re: [Dorset] Migrating from VirtualBox to KVM/QEMU with virt-manager

On 17/12/2020 16:34, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: Hi all, I've had enough of VirtualBox's glitchiness, so I'm going to move as many of my VMs to KVM/QEMU with virt-manager as possible. This should also be more performant, or so I hear. I've done this before with Linux VMs and it's fairly

Re: [Dorset] Audio sound from PC

A few months ago, when trying to get things working for a DLUG meeting with jitsi, I noticed a similar problem. The problem than was that I had something plugged into my rear sockets, and this disabled the front one.  Did you have something (Headphones?)  plugged into the front socket and

[Dorset] funny in python software

I have a program for my MQTT stuff, and my subscriber file that receives instructions from the publisher failed  after I had made some modifications to it. When I look at the file in kate, there is a difference that I cannot explain. In these following lines, the word 'connect' is in blue in

Re: [Dorset] funny in python software

, PeterMerchant wrote: I have a program for my MQTT stuff, and my subscriber file that receives instructions from the publisher failed  after I had made some modifications to it. When I look at the file in kate, there is a difference that I cannot explain. In these following lines, the word 'connect

[Dorset] lsblk command funny output

I was watching a yourtube video about copying SD cards and tried teh lsblk command that was used in the video. It gave me the following output: peterm@peterm-MBB-34204H:~$ lsblk NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0    7:0    0 141.7M  1 loop /snap/arduino/41 loop1    7:1    0 

Re: [Dorset] lsblk command funny output

On 03/11/2020 22:32, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0    7:0    0 141.7M  1 loop /snap/arduino/41 ... What are all these Loop things? should they be there? How do I get rid of them, if it would make the PC better? They're being used as part

[Dorset] Talktalk Sagem router

For the past few days I have been having trouble with my home network connectivity. I have been able to get out to the Internet, but my wireless connected PC hasn't been bale to print to my printer at the other end of a powerline adapter, and some devices I could browse in to but not ping. My

[Dorset] Old Books - Junk?

If anybody wants them, I will keep them aside, otherwise it's recycling bin or charity shop. Computer Security - Gollman  second Edition 2006 (3rd edition came out in 2011) Local Area Network Management, Design and Security - Mikalsen 2002 Principles of Network and System Administration -

Re: [Dorset] Old Books - Junk?

ls ? Eight volumes 1-7 (6 was in two parts) plus several suppliments. Hah just spotted "Best of Byte Vol 1" (1977) I'm keeping that one. On Wed, Jan 06 at 10:21, PeterMerchant wrote: If anybody wants them, I will keep them aside, otherwise it's recycling bin or charity shop. ...

Re: [Dorset] Recommendations for webcam?

On 08/01/2021 15:27, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: Hi, So as I mentioned I'm going to be buying a webcam as my existing solution isn't working. I imagine some of you probably use dedicated USB webcams, so perhaps you could tell me which ones you're using? I'll do research anyway, but it seems

Re: [Dorset] Recommendations for webcam?

On 08/01/2021 20:04, PeterMerchant wrote: On 08/01/2021 15:27, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: Hi, So as I mentioned I'm going to be buying a webcam as my existing solution isn't working. I imagine some of you probably use dedicated USB webcams, so perhaps you could tell me which ones you're

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

On 21/01/2021 07:51, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/ New RP2040 SoC which they designed. - Dual-core 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+. - 264 KiB on-chip RAM. - Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory on dedicated QSPI bus.

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

Do you not compile the C code before uploading it to an Arduino or similar? I've never used an Arduino but have always assumed that the compiler was in the IDE not the device. been using a Wemos D1 which has some of these features plus Wifi, and programmed in c. That's an interesting device

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

On 21/01/2021 12:39, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I'm building a Web page to allow users to monitor key status information on one of the Pis at WMT. I also want to create a page where users can press a button to carry out certain tasks, such as Start or Stop some music playing or select a new

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

On 21/01/2021 12:39, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I'm building a Web page to allow users to monitor key status information on one of the Pis at WMT. I also want to create a page where users can press a button to carry out certain tasks, such as Start or Stop some music playing or select a new

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

On 21/01/2021 13:54, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2021 13:52:27 GMT PeterMerchant wrote: Sending you separately an article form LXformat that shows how to do this. I did this for my remote control car, with the R-Pi configured as an access point and Flask Web server, and the HTML

Re: [Dorset] Old Books - Junk?

On 23/01/2021 18:25, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: On 06/01/2021 10:21, PeterMerchant wrote: If anybody wants them, I will keep them aside, otherwise it's recycling bin or charity shop. Computer Security - Gollman  second Edition 2006 (3rd edition came out in 2011) Local Area Network

[Dorset] Am I allowed a moan?

I have been trying to work with a group 'Wimborne laptops for schools' for children at home who do not have computers to work with. A friend gave me her old computer to donate and I had my own old one. I was told that the sufficient requirement was for a browser.   So I installed Xubuntu Linux

Re: [Dorset] Assistance debugging Python on Raspberry Pi.

On 29/01/2021 08:18, PeterMerchant wrote: I have a program on my Raspberry Pi  (subscriber) that gets MQTT messages from a broker (Mosquitto) also on the Pi, and lights LEDS depending on the content of the messages.  My final intention is to add my ultrasonic detector to this program. Note

Re: [Dorset] Problem with 'full' Root partition

Perhaps try Bleachbit? P. On 27/01/2021 14:37, C Wills wrote: Sorry the original copy was sent from another email address which is not authorised by DLUG system.  Sending from the correct address, hope you don't get it twice!! Clive Hi All Yesterday my wife started her PC and got a warning

Re: [Dorset] Assistance debugging Python on Raspberry Pi.

On 29/01/2021 09:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, BUT anytime I add anything to the program the subscriber stops firing the LEDs. ‘Anything’ is very vague. Can you attach the output of diff -u working.py broken.py where you've done some simple change which breaks it, e.g... I

[Dorset] Assistance debugging Python on Raspberry Pi.

I have a program on my Raspberry Pi  (subscriber) that gets MQTT messages from a broker (Mosquitto) also on the Pi, and lights LEDS depending on the content of the messages.  My final intention is to add my ultrasonic detector to this program. Note that these LEDs are the test rig for my RC

Re: [Dorset] Assistance debugging Python on Raspberry Pi.

You should find that file given your first debug() call as those lines work for me here. $ cat >peter.py import logging logging.basicConfig(filename='debug_log.txt', level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') logging.debug('This is a log

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT

On 24/06/2021 14:14, PeterMerchant wrote: On 24/06/2021 13:19, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:49:42 BST Terry Coles wrote: Any thoughts on what I could do to diagnose this problem? Someone on the Raspberry Pi Forums has resurrected the WMM Power suggestion. Apparently

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT

On 24/06/2021 13:19, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:49:42 BST Terry Coles wrote: Any thoughts on what I could do to diagnose this problem? Someone on the Raspberry Pi Forums has resurrected the WMM Power suggestion. Apparently this has been known to cause problems in the past.

[Dorset] Help with sound

I have just been given a computer from a friend who 'needed' to upgrade his to a faster one.  I have stuck my Kubuntu disk in it and it basically works except for a couple of things. One of them is that I don't have any sound. This is hardinfo for the new one: -Computer- Processor        :

Re: [Dorset] Help with sound

that it has an external sound card the internal one is broken Tim H On 19/05/2021 14:07, PeterMerchant wrote: Sorted. When I got the computer it had a fancy sound card that I took out. I've put it back and I now have sound. P. On 18/05/2021 22:16, PeterMerchant wrote: -- Next meeting

[Dorset] Android (6) and Tesco shopping app.

My wife has a 7" Lenovo tablet bought June 2017 and yesterday the Tesco shopping App said that it would no longer work on this device due to an out of date Operating System. The OS was Android 6.  The tablet still works well, except for being particular about which charging cable we use. So

Re: [Dorset] Android (6) and Tesco shopping app.

On 26/05/2021 12:20, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: I bought her a new Lenovo 7" tablet, but it is slightly smaller (New case needed - £££) and this one will not stay in landscape mode. That's another problem, and Lenovo don't want to know. Peter Peter, have you tried disabling

Re: [Dorset] Chromium no Longer Stores Passwords on Kubuntu

On 05/06/2021 09:13, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 5 June 2021 08:41:42 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: Or use something like Bitwarden. Open Source, runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, IoS. Automatically syncs. Can be self-hosted if you're paranoid, but you don't need to. And your passwords

Re: [Dorset] Help with sound

Sorted. When I got the computer it had a fancy sound card that I took out. I've put it back and I now have sound. P. On 18/05/2021 22:16, PeterMerchant wrote: I have just been given a computer from a friend who 'needed' to upgrade his to a faster one.  I have stuck my Kubuntu disk

[Dorset] What is Sp** and what isn't?

This made me smile. Because I am using a Hotmail address I periodically get messages from Microsoft  asking me if a referenced email is evil or not and a box to tick whether to permit it or stop  them. Today the tables have been turned because Thunderbird thinks this email from Microsoft is

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

On 11/02/2021 09:06, CA Wills wrote: Hi All My wireless connection to the router keeps dropping out even though it reports 64% signal.  Yesterday everything was OK all day but this morning no connection. The router is mounted on a high shelf in a room with 2 single brick walls between.  This

Re: [Dorset] Assistance debugging Python on Raspberry Pi.

of the debug messages has printed. Have to look at the others now. Anyway, progress! Still have to figure out how to add the ultrasonic functions and get them to work. I will probably add a do-nothing function to the program for testing first. P. On 29/01/2021 10:36, PeterMerchant wrote: You should

Re: [Dorset] Assistance debugging Python on Raspberry Pi.

On 29/01/2021 10:36, PeterMerchant wrote: And I forgot to say, Thanks to Keith and Ralph for the help. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

Damn, forgot. and too late now. Next month I hope. P. On 02/02/2021 12:18, Terry Coles wrote: All, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. Simply click on the following link and you will be taken to the Meeting using your default browser: https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug Chrome

[Dorset] Program to compare/overlay pictures

Is there a program to compare or overlay pictures to tell the differences. I have a retaining wall that is gradually spreading, and a few years ago I put in two screws, one on each side, and have been taking photos in three dimensions ever since. It is difficult to compare these photos

Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

On 11/03/2021 17:52, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, ci...@cewland.uk said: Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time again; or am I wrong in thinking it's their fault? I think you're wrong in thinking that TalkTalk will care in the

Re: [Dorset] connecting a HP printer to my wi-fi network

You may find it useful to give the printer a static IP Address in your  Router. [WILL] not may! Are you commenting on my grammar or making a statement of fact? Not worried about your grammar, mine isn't always the best. In all of my networking life since TCP/IP came in, printers have had

Re: [Dorset] [OT] 12v Power supply replacement

On 06/03/2021 19:25, Tim wrote: My apologies as this is very much not linux and not even computer based. Just trying to tap in to the collective electrical knowledge of the group. I have 2 LED light on my Fish tank and one of the power supplies is dead. Getting a replacement power supply from

Re: [Dorset] connecting a HP printer to my wi-fi network

On 26/02/2021 12:29, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday, 26 February 2021 11:55:36 GMT John Palmer wrote: I have (perhaps unwisely) bought a Hewlett multifunction printer MFP179fnw. How on earth do I connect it to my home wifi network ? At present it's a nice stand-alone photocopier, but that's the

Re: [Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

Alternatively, is there a way to get trace to do it's stuff while the program is executing? I have used the Logger function in Python on the Raspberry Pi to see what my program is doing. Unfortunately I was unable to get logger working with the timestamp, but it did write to a logfile for

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

On 11/02/2021 09:06, CA Wills wrote: Hi All My wireless connection to the router keeps dropping out even though it reports 64% signal.  Yesterday everything was OK all day but this morning no connection. The router is mounted on a high shelf in a room with 2 single brick walls between.  This

[Dorset] Microsoft on Raspberry Pi

I came across this article on nixcraft and I wonder if I should be worried about it. I am well aware that M$ is becoming more linux friendly(?), but not sure that I want them prying into my Pi. _Heads up: Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS

[Dorset] Router Wifi configs

The question is, in a router that has both 2.4GHz and 5GHz capability, should the ESSID/security for these be different, or is it alright to have them both the same? Mine are both the same, and I have a computer that won't connect to the router. When I first set it up this way, my tablet

[Dorset] HP Printers and Flash

In a discussion with friends yesterday, they discussed the problems of communicating with HP printers from W10 now that Flash has been  killed, because apparently HP drivers use it.  Is this a problem from Linux? I expect not, but if I come across a printer it would be good to know. Peter

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

On 13/02/2021 13:06, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 11:20:30 GMT CA Wills wrote: As Peter said below, this seems to be the same problem, only one item not connecting. So a question: if I have another router (a previous TT one) can I: Using the additional router.; 1.

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

On 13/02/2021 13:46, PeterMerchant wrote: On 13/02/2021 13:06, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 11:20:30 GMT CA Wills wrote: As Peter said below, this seems to be the same problem, only one item not connecting. So a question: if I have another router (a previous TT one) can I

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

On 20/02/2021 13:01, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: I haven't been following this, but have you checked for a firmware update for the router that might fix the issue? Hamish On 20/02/2021 12:56, CA Wills wrote: Started a new email on this subject due to delays in replying. We have been

Re: [Dorset] display not occupying full screen

On 20/02/2021 14:54, PeterMerchant wrote: This morning all of a sudden my display magnified a lot and I could only see a bit of it on my screen. I haev been trying to get it right and now I have something about the right size, but with black bars across both bottom and top of the screen

[Dorset] display not occupying full screen

This morning all of a sudden my display magnified a lot and I could only see a bit of it on my screen. I haev been trying to get it right and now I have something about the right size, but with black bars across both bottom and top of the screen, and as I move up and down the display I lose

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

On 13/02/2021 14:00, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 13:50:55 GMT PeterMerchant wrote: Powerline adapters might be a solution for Clive, Argos? If he's going to have to spend money then it's probably cheaper to by a USB WiFi Adaptor or a WiFi Extender: https://www.argos.co.uk

[Dorset] Programming courses for R-Pi

Has anybody seen this? Is it any good? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/these-raspberry-pi-robotics-and-electronics-courses-allow-you-to-learn-at-your-own-pace/ Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-09-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] Python Problem in MQTT subscriber program

Patrick, I am most grateful for your comments. You obviously know a lot more about MQTT than I. I think that I'll have a little play with the software that I have working, and then start cleaning it up using some of your suggestions.  And perhaps read a bit more of the MQTT v5 spec. Much

Re: [Dorset] Python Problem in MQTT subscriber program

Problem sorted, though I don't know why. I took out the hyphens in the Pot-Left & Right strings, and made them Pleft and Pright. and it does not crash. Peter. On 23/08/2021 18:29, PeterMerchant wrote: I have three versions of this program, and two work, but the third with the differences

[Dorset] Python Problem in MQTT subscriber program

I have three versions of this program, and two work, but the third with the differences put together crashes.   Can anybody advise me what is happening. Here are the relevant bits. 1. Working def on_message(client, userdata, message):    if message.payload  == b'forward':   up_15()   

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

On 02/08/2021 10:04, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday, 2 August 2021 09:57:47 BST PeterMerchant wrote: It is an interesting question. On my PC which has a 4M cable to a wifi dongle hanging in a window, and on the same side of the house as the router, but diagonal far corner. (Downstairs west

[Dorset] MOT time

I took my car in for the MOT this morning, and in the corner of the office was an old Compaq tower. It had been their main computer for their operation for years until they had to get a new printer, which the 18 year old computer running XP didn't have drivers for. So their supplier sold them

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

On 02/08/2021 06:51, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:53:22 BST Tim wrote: Has a new Wifi to the area appeared and is swamping music and bells wifi, thus forcing it off line? I'm not aware of anything like that. In any case the five Tiny-TV Pis (which are all further from the

[Dorset] Apologies

Sorry about last night. I was recently given a PC by a friend who 'needed' to upgrade and I put my Kubuntu Disc into it and effectively upgraded my system from 2 core 8GB to 4 core, 24GB RAM, and had most things working OK that I had tested, after a wobbly with his fancy sound card. I

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

On 31/12/2021 16:21, Terry Coles wrote: I'm beginning to think that upgrading the music and bells Pis to bullseye might have been a bit premature. I cannot get amixer to work properly. The sound card is an Adafruit Speaker Bonnet. The code shown below worked under buster. Here is the

[Dorset] Following on from LUG meeting Tues 4th Jan

In my Google news I got sent this: https://opensource.com/article/20/8/kubernetes-raspberry-pi Is Google listening to us? PeterM. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-02-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

[Dorset] Folding at Home

Article today in the Telegraph: How a crowdsourced supercomputer has unlocked the secrets of the world's deadliest diseases The Folding@home project, powered by thousands of ordinary internet users, is now helping scientists to understand and fight Covid-19. Quite a bit of dross, but some

Re: [Dorset] removing spaces in file names

On 30/11/2021 15:42, PeterMerchant wrote: I thought that my backup software Freefilesync was not backing up files with spaces in the names, so I found online a solution that changed all the spaces to -. find . -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /-/g'^C Now I have just checked

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