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No Wi-Fi device found on RPi 3B
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with Debian 12 Bookworm. Wifi used to work a few days ago. I then re-flashed the SD card and reinstalled Debian 12 Bookworm. Since then, wifi is not working anymore ...
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How can I play HLS/DASH (.m3u8 / .mpd) streams on a headless Raspberry Pi without installing VLC?
I’m building a wall‑mounted info screen using a Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS Lite (no desktop). I need to auto‑start a set of M3U8 and MPEG‑DASH streams (traffic cams + NASA TV) in fullscreen with ...
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Setup a fallback network to automatically connect to on boot [duplicate]
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W already configured to automatically connect to my home wireless network on boot. I have made this configuration using the Raspberry Pi Imager.
Now I would like to setup a ...
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Turn off WiFi hardware (including transmitter) until next reboot
I'm using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W on an FPV quad controlled via ELRS working on the same frequency (2,4 GHZ) as WiFi.
To reduce any possible interference I'd like to turn off WiFi on my Pi entirely until ...
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How to solve error: Could not open any dmaHeap device when using raspi 4b and high quality camera
I am using a fully updated RasPi4B with 8GB of RAM running 64 bit Bookworm. I have done nothing but setting up the Pi and ran apt update and apt ful-upgrade. Now all I want to achieve is to see the ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 loses connection after reboot
I have had this RPI 4 for a year now. All I did on it was hosting vpn.
I have not rebooted it ever since I set it up a year ago. Yesterday I was rebooting it, and it's suddenly not detectable on the ...
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Connecting to new Wi-Fi on Raspberry headless Bookworm reg
It seems like with the latest Bookworm the support for wpa_supplicant.conf is removed without providing us with an alternative. Consider you already have Bookworm OS installed on the SD card. And you ...
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PI 4 low network speed after connecting USB drive
USB drive is a SD card reader with a 1TB micro sd card in it.
It is formatted as exFAT. I had to install exfat-fuse, exfatprogs to make it visible in PI.
I noticed that after setting it up, and ...
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Setting up wifi SSID and pasword on Raspberry Pi Bookworm headless for unreachable network
This should be a common situation. I have configured a Pi with Bookworm to work headless on my WiFi and now want to move it to a different location with another LAN. I have the SSID and password, but ...
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can't connect to pi over USB C cable
I tried a couple different guides on how to do this:
https://howchoo.com/pi/raspberry-pi-gadget-mode/
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-connect-raspberry-pi-to-laptop-or-pc-usb/
They differ in whether ...
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Prevent questions on first boot, automate setup
Some changes seem to be made in recent Raspi OS Lite versions again. So here I am again, asking for an automated solution. It's 2024 and I was asked these questions when booting the Pi for the first ...
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Send vlc images to the HDMI port on Pi 4
Attach a keyboard and mouse to Pi 4, log in, interface is through HDMI port. Invoke vlc on a jpeg, image also goes to the HDMI port. I want the same to happen headless. That is log in remotely via ssh,...
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Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, Wayland desktop + headless Pi, cannot get past first boot wizard
I probably did something wrong during initial setup, but I've hit a rather strange problem trying to set up a graphical headless RPi 4B with Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm.
To set up my Pi, I downloaded ...
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How to reboot my unresponsive Pi server remotly
How, if at all possible, do I reboot my unresponsive Pi server remotely?
The server is in a house, my old family home, about 450km from where I actually live.
There's a couple of servers in the house ...
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Headless Wi-Fi setup without the RPi Imager: bootfs/wpa_supplicant.conf not supported since Bookworm
From the docs:
Previous versions of Raspberry Pi OS made use of a wpa_supplicant.conf file which could be placed into the boot folder to configure wireless network settings. This is no longer ...
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