I have a RPI 2 with Windows 10 IoT Preview installed on it, and I'm trying to create a Windows Universal App that displays a live feed from the Raspberry Pi camera (specifically the Pi NoIR camera). Is this possible?
It's not possible yet. There are no Windows drivers available for the camera. This is likely to change at some point, but your only current option is to use a different OS.
Goobering is correct. Drivers for USB WebCam type devices are likely to be available in the next drop of the OS. I'm uncertain about the RPi camera.
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I have a couple of these cameras which I suspect have different firmware versions. One works with NiViewer, the other doesn't. Although both are detected as connected to a usb port (I repeat the test on the same usb port). I don't want to flash firmware upgrades directly without knowing the current versions (I recently screwup another camera by just trying different firmwares). Ideally, I'm looking for some app I could run from ubuntu that can show the firmware version of the camera.
Looking at APIs, I found a getFirmwareRevision() call for the Structure SDK but I think that's for the occipital camera only. I've checked OpeneNI2 API and the most similar sounding function I've found is a call to GetFirmwareParams() but I can't see any example that refers to the firmware version, so I suspect that's for a different use.
Hello I am trying to work out how to set kodi up on my smart TV. My main problem lies with the TV being on the wall in another room too far away from power sources. She has sky installed and that was situated in the other room and with a HDMI lead fed under to floorboards to the other room by a professional someone or other. I am unable to feed another HDMI lead along the line.
Is there a way I could connect kodi by some other means to the TV? I am not really up on these things.
At the moment I have the kodi box in another room and I have to switch the sky lead to the kodi box to use. Also this means you have to be in the other room.
Can anyone suggest a way for me to get kodi working on the tv and be able to operate it via remote control?
I use Kodi on all of my TVs through an amazon fire stick. Most smart TVs have a USB on the back of the TV that can power the fire stick while its plugged into the HDMI so you wouldn't have to worry about power. I have a Sony bravia that will control the fire stick as long as I am on the input the fire stick is plugged into so no need for an additional remote.
To start off this is the wrong place to ask. This is a Q and A platform for programming questions and coding related questions.
To give you an answer though because I'm not a dick the best way to do it would be using a NAS. You would have two Kodi boxes but one media store.
I'm not sure which device do you use.
In my case, I installed Kodi on my Raspberry Pi(RPi) and TV and RPi are connected with HDMI. My TV is Samsung SmartTV, which supports HDMI-CEC. So, RPI can get RCU Key input from TV.
(HDMI-CEC allows devices connected to your TV through HDMI ports to communicate back and forth with your TV. )
In addition, you can customize keymaps for remotes in GUI by using the community Keymap Editor add-on.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap
Check your TV supports HDMI-CEC, first.
I am using a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. I also have a 3.5 inch Touch Display LCD for Raspberry Pi. I am running the Raspberry Pi with the attached Touch screen, but it only shows a white screen. It is connected via the GPIO port. I have installed Windows 10 IOT OS.
1) How can it connect to Raspberry Pi?
2) Why is it only White(Blank) Screen showing?
Usually, the 3.5 Inch LCD Display Modules require special drivers that do not come standard with the Raspbian OS. They either come packed with the Module itself (Usually for Raspbian) or are downloadable from the web. I'm not aware of any drivers for Windows 10, but with a datasheet you may be able to configure it for yourself (This may serve as a starting point for that kind of project if that's what you really want to do.)
To answer your two questions:
(1) The Display connects to the Raspberry by via the GPIO Port. You have already done this.
(2) The screen is white because this is the default state of the module when it is plugged in and not utilised.
Hope this helps!
I had the same problem! I solved it last night. Here is the answer on my post: How do you get a waveshare 3.5 inch touch LCD to work with Raspbian Jessie?. Hope this helps!
I want to create a game console with my Raspberry Pi and create my own game with an SD Card. Do I need an OS loaded with games or can I insert various SD Cards with different games?
In order to use the Raspberry Pi as a retro gaming console you will have to set it up. Go to the RetroPie Download page and choose the appropriate download for your version of your Raspberry Pi. The go to the RetroPi first installation page and follow the directions. After you complete that you will have to move your roms to the Raspberry pi into the /RetroPie/roms folder on the SD card. I use a Raspberry Pi for classic gaming and I love it.
I think there is some confusion here.
RetroPi IS technically the OS. You then "add" games to it.
If you want to create your own games then you have plenty of options.
You can technically create your own games and export them as NES games to be read by the NES emulator. This is very difficult and requires you to use tools that might be out of scope for beginners. The advantage is that you can put them in eprom chips and play them on an actual NES.
I would instead try to create a game using something like PyGame and play them on a RaspberryPi. Yo uwon't need RetroPi for something like this. Instead you'd need an OS like Raspbian
Yes definately. A raspberry pi without an operating system will not do anything. Its like asking a human to function without a brain. You should check out the retropie project. Its an operating system for the raspberry pi that lets you install roms and play the. You can even use controllers such as a ps3 controller.
Retropie
Head to RetroPie to download the image to your computer. Then, flash it on to the MicroSD with either Win32DiskImager on Windows or RPI-sd card builder on a Mac.
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In the last weeks I experimented with my Raspberry Pi B and with the PiCamera. I had the idea to establish a connection between the RasPi and an Android device or (if it is easier) to a windows notebook without an access point in between, just like the GoPro camera and its App. I would like to have a live stream from the PiCamera to the other device and the possibility to start/stop recording a video or simply take a picture.
The app itself is not my problem, I wrote some simple apps before. But I didn't yet find a tutorial or description how to set up the communication and the stream.
I bought a WiFi dongle (Fritz!WLAN Stick N - by AVM) that supports WiFi direct and my phone (Samsung Galaxy S5 mini) does as well.
My first question is how to set up this stick on Raspbian - yet it is not recognises as a wifi dongle, and the second is how to achieve what I descriebed above.
Could anyone please describe what I can do?
Thanks in advance!
PS: I prefer a description for bash because I use SSH