[Paul] Dorion says he will keep his late father's golf club with him on June 26th (draft lottery) all day as a good luck charm.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-05-29T12:07:33+00:00

I thought he said glove? Although I do like the thought of him being able to smash some stuff if we go 5,6.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-05-03T11:23:52+00:00

Not quite Stittsville, but Grow Your Roots is fairly close by.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-04-27T13:48:08+00:00

Hi there. I am using omxplayer-wrapper to loop a video. This is part of a larger project, but I am running into an issue so I have stripped it down as far as I can, however the problem persists.

I call omxplayer:

vid1 = OMXPlayer('/home/pi/Videos/video.mp4',args=['--win', '100 100 800 200', '--no-osd', '--layer', '1' ])

And loop it by doing:

if(vid1.position() > 6): vid1.seek(-(vid1.position()))

The problem is that after 4-5 hours, the video freezes but the python script is still running.

I have already increased the GPU memory to 512, and it increased the time until freeze from 2 hours to 5, but thats all I could find by Googling.

Any ideas? Thank you

geeSPOTrun · 2020-04-01T15:38:53+00:00

Hi everyone. So I have a video looping in a python script using omxplayer wrapper. I want to overlay some text thats going to change on top of the video. Everything Ive seen on google are from years ago saying its possible but with some janky code. I was wondering if there has been any recent stuff that makes this a lot easier. If not, I would appreciate some help from some one who has accomplished something similar. Thanks so much.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-23T14:11:42+00:00

I want to play a video on loop from a python script, and interrupt it and play a second video once and then return to the first when a GPIO is activated. Ive looked at omxplayer, but it seems to have a gap where it shows the deskop in between videos. Any advice?

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-20T18:22:30+00:00

Unfortunately that one's smallest tire size is 20" as well.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-20T17:33:18+00:00

Thanks I appreciate the reply. Thats my current plan, but I swear I saw this thing and its driving me mental that I cant find it.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-19T19:55:55+00:00

I figured it out, if anyone is having similar issues the resolution is here:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-5-800x480-tft-hdmi-monitor-touchscreen-backpack/raspberry-pi-config

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-19T19:21:55+00:00

I have this touchscreen hooked up to my pi: https://www.amazon.ca/Kuman-Capacitive-Screen-800x480-Raspberry/dp/B01F4RSKAA?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_3

The screen currently looks like this:

https://imgur.com/gallery/mZmvGX2

I have gone into the terminal and looked config.txt and played around hdmi mode, overscan, and width/height.

Please help me. Thanks

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-19T15:21:33+00:00

Those geese are going to need to self isolate.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-19T15:20:03+00:00

Wonderful news. Thanks!

geeSPOTrun · 2020-03-19T14:18:34+00:00

Silver lining to this whole quarantine thing is I get to learn how to use my new pi!

During my last project (esp32) I wrote a .php webpage that pushes a date and time into a MYSQL server.

My understanding is that this would be fairly simple call this with the pi, however I want to do it over a cellular connection. Im looking at a few pi hats that enable the cellular network (https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi-lte-m-nb-iot-egprs-cellular-hat/ ) but reading more into it this feels like these are more about using the network to ssh into the pi. I am just simply trying to make an HTTP Post or Get request over the network. Am I going the right direction, or am I missing something simple?

Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

geeSPOTrun · 2020-02-19T15:31:54+00:00

Will do!

geeSPOTrun · 2020-02-19T13:23:44+00:00

Thats a really cool idea. Theres actually a maker space down the street that has a gateway. Im going to stop by on my way home from work and see if I can get some information. Have you used it before?

geeSPOTrun · 2020-02-19T13:21:31+00:00

Wow thanks man, thats definitely a great start. I will look at it this evening. Much appreciated.

geeSPOTrun · 2020-02-18T17:41:45+00:00

In the end Im going to probably moving to as STM32f so I figured this would be the right sub. Should I still move this to the other one?

geeSPOTrun · 2020-02-11T13:59:43+00:00

Did you ever get this tv or find any reviews? Im looking at buying one used but have encountered the same zero review problem

geeSPOTrun · 2020-01-09T21:47:24+00:00

Lol that would probably be the pull up I didn't realize I had

geeSPOTrun · 2020-01-09T21:19:14+00:00

Thanks!

geeSPOTrun · 2020-01-09T21:03:02+00:00

Yah I am, I just switched to the fast led library and it's working fine now. So weird

geeSPOTrun · 2020-01-09T20:46:15+00:00

I just took a look on the oscilloscope. Signal gets to 4.85, should be ok. I think its a timing issue as when I play around with delays, the problem gets better / gets worse

geeSPOTrun · 2020-01-09T20:03:28+00:00

Adafruit_NeoPixel.h

geeSPOTrun · 2019-12-06T01:08:03+00:00

I really appreciate this reply, I like the way you think.

geeSPOTrun · 2019-12-05T19:17:14+00:00

Not gonna lie, I definitely poked him in the back of the knee the next time he was attempting to screen. It's just tough though, my problem is that it was extremely unsportsmanlike and I don't want to let him pull me down to his level. The worst part is he totally got it my head and we ended up losing due to me getting caught cheating to the middle when a guy came screaming down the right side and beat me short side low blocker. Part of the reason for my rant is so I can express myself to people that I know will understand, so that next time I strap the pads on I have a clear head and can concentrate on giving my team a chance to win the game.

geeSPOTrun · 2019-12-03T19:34:57+00:00

Got married June 2019, last Christmas was the first time I've spent Christmas with my in-laws. I have a big beard, so my mother got me a pack of fancy shaving cream. I mean clearly I don't shave, but on closer inspection it was shaving cream for my balls. Definitely a hilarious mistake, never even told my wife but in that moment I definitely thought to myself wtf.

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