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He does things in a different way...More a kind of 'what' you can do rather than 'how'. I know he does do all the cross-compile stuff and I suspect (I don't know and don't claim to) that he just figures the instructions are out there so why duplicate it. My view was more from the perspective that the process is complex and intimidating so I figured I'd just try to make it easier for people.

Thanks for the continued support!!! 😃

I do have some Arduino nanos around here and yeah, an Arduino would work fine. There's SDKs available to interact with both the distance meter and the LED. I just preferred doing this with a PI partially because of the brand of the channel and partially just because I prefer the generic nature of the pi zero Vs the more proprietary coding models of microcontrollers. But, for sure, it's absolutely doable.

You know what, I'd NEVER actually thought about that but you're absolutely right about partitioning in PI-OS. I guess it's always been targeted as being such a burn-and-play thing that they've never provided an "advanced" option for storage layout...I've not tried the Debian installer for PI...Do you know if that lets you lay out the FS as you'd like? As for the hardware encoding, the big issue is that Broadcom are a closed shop and don't openly publish details about the VideoCore VII. They just share that with vendors who license the product. So, for sure, Eben Upton and the foundation folks would know how to do it, it'd just be really nice if they'd actually allocate some time for it!! 😃 Thanks so much for the message!

​@@jeffs_piinthesky I was just writing a long reply and I hit the wrong key and kicked right out 😂! My bad! Anyway, making it short. It appears to me, the changes need a change in the installer program. It seems to wipe out any existing and then rewrites a new partition table. You can control partitions on other drives (like an ssd on a hat) separate from the boot source. You can mount separate partitions on your file system. A Pi OS can read and write all kinds of file systems, the file system a partition uses is identified in the partion table itself

Totally agree that an advanced installer to set up the disk would be really cool!!

@@jeffs_piinthesky To me, this is something for the program developers to tackle, as they are already familiar with the program. I would have to set for days/weeks going through the code to figure out what and how they are going about the process. I would look for an existing partition table, determine if the 1st partition is big enough for the /boot directory to write it out (plus a bit for upgrades, etc). Same process for the rest of the partitions. Plus, you would need to modify the kernel or what ever deals with swap files vs swap partition. So far as I know, there is no way to setup or format a swap partition, in PiOS. I can, with a "standard" x86 Linux distribution. I started using Slackware on a 486, the kernel version was 0.97. I was a kernel tester for a couple of years and got very familiar with that C code. Now, there are new ways of dealing with "devices", than before. I haven't had the time to fully figure it out. I have a PID module for the fan that can control the fan and regulate the CPU to less than .1° C, mainly using the existing fan control files in the (I forget the directory they are in right now!) for now I'll refer to it as in the temperature devices files. They have a file that is called "mode" or something like that in the folder. By default it has a 1 in it, but if you change it to 6, it will go into a PID mode, vs the by default method, which is basically on/off at different levels, that are set also in files, to set the "hysteresis" and setpoint. Included in the directory are PID type setting files. My program for that does the calculations and sets the fan speed (also in the directory). Works very well, separately, still trying how to get it set and running from the device tree.

Indeed, especially with the cost of the PI5 being relatively high, it does make mini PCs an interesting alternative.

So far as I can tell, the Video core VII is exclusive to the PI5 so I doubt it's a licensing issue but it is something I hadn't thought of. Thank you so much. It's certainly a very good suggestion as to why it's not enabled. It is just so baffling!!

I don't have a 2GB PI5 so can't be 100% but it should work on there just fine. I'm currently running it on my NAS, an 8GB PI5 along with OpenMediaVault and several other containers and everything is consuming around 1.2GB RAM. So running on a 2GB PI5 should be easy. Thanks so much for the support and I'm glad you're enjoying it! It's unfortunately been one of my less-watched videos so it's good to know someone appreciated it!!! 😃

Thanks so much for the support!! I totally agree that constant changes to the processes for doing simple things is really unhelpful. It just increases the perception that PI's and Linux in general are "difficult", keeping people away.

I recommend avoiding the Realtek chipset on Linux. I have an Alfa WiFi6 USB adapter and it is a pain with frequent recompilations required.

Also latest Pi OS with updates will do WPA3 so latest security using on board WiFi. That is still ac WiFi but latest WPA3 security

Thanks so much. I tried out a fully updated Bookworm install and NetworkManager would only show WPA3 networks. If I removed WPA3 security from my 6G network then NM would see it. So I guess there are still gremlins in there!! But great to hear that you have had success with other chipsets. Good to know.

Absolutely...Unfortunately latest PI OS seems to only make it MORE difficult which is just bizarre!!

Linux has been a thorn in my side for far too long. Its great and stable once you get it setup, but it seems like everything is a rabbit hole to get working.

Very true. It's infinitely better than it used to be and, in some cases, is easier to get devices running. But this is definitely not one of those cases! 😃

I'm still fighting Bookworm on a PI5 with this. Similar issues in that you need to download and build the drivers but the relationship between wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager is very different. Right now, if I try "sudo nmcli dev wifi list" after installing the drivers & setting the country, I'm not seeing any networks show up that are secured with WPA3. So I suspect there's something missing or wrong in NetworkManager running under a Debian based OS. Maybe that's affecting your Ubuntu system in exactly the same way?

That sounds awesome!!! Just bear in mind the GPU support on PI's is pretty poor though Jeff Geerling has made a lot of strides in that area. The built in GPU on the PI5 supports H264 and HEVC h/w video encoding but, for some reason I don't understand, the foundation have never put the support for that into the PI5 firmware. But let me know how you get on! Sounds amazing!!

If it'll let you do it, can you paste your server.conf in here?. Strip out all the certificate info ..just all the config options. Sounds like there's just a small typo in there. I can then take a look.

Thanks for the support!!

Indeed!!! The big thing I've learned from this is that AI is very much garbage-in, garbage-out. It's really all about the quality of the training data...But yeah, seeing that pigeon get tagged was quite a rush!!! Thanks for the support!!!

Thanks so much!!!! Unfortunately it's still flagged as a pre-order. It's meant to ship this month but it's anyone's guess. But rest assured, once it arrives I'll get straight on to figuring out how to use it!!!! 😃

That sounds like the Android OS install hasn't gone successfully. It should only boot into recovery either when you tell it to, or when it fails to boot into Android. Quick question, can you double check the Android TV OS image you downloaded? I had something similar happen when I grabbed the OTA installer by mistake.

@@jeffs_piinthesky solution that I tried-1 again download android tv os 2. Change the sd card But these solutions is not working 😞

The fundamentals of how to set it up will be the same. However, there's always the risk it won't be backwards compatible with the bme280 API that Adafruit provide. I just had a look and it looks like they do have a specific BME680 library that has a slightly different syntax to support the extra features. So I think the code I published from my video would need some tweaks but, from the looks of it, it shouldn't be too painful. Let me know how you get on!! And best of luck with the project...I can safely say that the weather station is a project I make use of every day!! 😃

Indeed! I was pretty thrilled with the outcome!!! Should be really good when I have the model refined with more sample data!!

Bad things happen when I think about that too much 🤣

You can find setting up the md127 device in the video "Build your own NAS using a PI5 and SATA Controller Card" with that specific part starting at 18m48s into it. You can construct the RAID volume inside OMV as well by setting up the PV, VG's and LV's in there using the LVM2 plugin and then the "Multiple Devices" plugin for creating the RAID5 array. In the other video, it's all done in the command line. th-cam.com/video/yzqFOgN3Sl0/w-d-xo.html

Really glad you're enjoying it! Thanks for the support!!

OMG that's awesome!!! What a fantastic idea!!! There are some aggressive white doves here I could use that for!!! 🤣

Your dad have a github? That's sounds really cool

I'm like a new age Max Headroom 🤣

@@jeffs_piinthesky lol, love the video and your definitely an update from max headroom. Keep up the fantastic work!

Thanks so much for the support!!

Thank you!! Hopefully the end result will be awesome!!!

Indeed it would!!! The last big feature that needs to make it into the Pi kernel for the Pi 5 is support for the hardware h264 and h265 encoding which IS there in the Video core VII GPU...Why that wasn't supported day 1, I'll never know. But soon as it's added, I've got a few ideas on things to do with it.

@@jeffs_piinthesky eagerly waiting, lets to it 😃😃

The NowTV app is available but I wasn't able to test it as I've never had a subscription for that service. All I do know is MANY of the services have locked down their content with DRM (Widevine) which is not supported on the platform. You can install an open source version on Raspberry PI OS but so far as I know, there's not a good solution for Lineage unfortunately. So Im getting increasingly pessimistic about this projects long term future. As for Jellyfin, you can install the client on there and I've had no problem streaming file based content from a media server onto my TV. However, I did hit a problem with streaming live TV from TVHeadend via Jellyfin running on a pi though if the Jellyfin "server" was installed on my Ryzen box, it worked fine. So that is one I'm still trying to figure out.

Indeed...Getting my router to do that is sooooo easy ..I just wish the NetworkManager developers would make their s/w a little easier and more reliable to work with 😃

So you're a fan of NetworkManager? That's great! As I said in the video, I personally find the CLI kinda clunky and unreliable but it's impossible for anyone to make something everyone will get on with. I certainly don't want to rain on anyone's parade.

Have I missed something in there? I didn't think you could set a static IP up in raspi-config? I'll take another look. Thanks for the pointer!

Couldn't agree more. The old Ubuntu system with the /etc/network/interfaces file was so simple...Everything since then feels like complication for the sake of complication. Saying that, the GUI version seems pretty effective though is still laid out pretty badly... A number of viewers have pointed out nmtui, a text menu system replicating the GUI which TBH I'd never heard of, let alone tried. But if it ends up doing the right thing, that'll be something...but doesn't do a lot for automation/scripting solutions

Yeah, I hadn't heard of nmtui before I put this out and another viewer also steered me towards it. You guys are awesome!!! I'll give it a go...it looks really useful in a textual environment.

Right now, I'm trying to get the channel to the stage where I can enable live streams etc...And the channel is still very young so is a ways off that...But it's certainly something on the radar. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions etc in the comments here!!!

That's a really interesting challenge!!! Let me know how you get on with that!!! I guess I've always considered running containers or even VM's ahead of getting different names hooked to different NICs. May I ask what your use case is there? Sounds interesting!!

I've not heard of that. So far as I knew, nmcli was the command line equivalent. I'll take a look, thanks!!!

Yeah, meant to put a message up about that, apols...I set the hostname as "ip" but then didn't add it to the /etc/hosts file. I then ran out of time to re-record it before a vacation started... And I'm totally with you on OCD!!! 🤣Its one thing I'm really bad with!!!

I used a regular pi power supply for the pi. Technically I could have used the 5v rail from the Pico power supply but where the pi5 can use a variable supply, I was figuring it might be more efficient for it to use the native one. But for sure, I can't think of any reason why powering from the Pico supply wouldn't work.

That sounds really interesting!!! Not 100% sure these little gizmos would be accurate enough for it though...I did know a guy once who reverse engineered an old Xbox Kinect sensor to do analytics on his cycling style (he was a borderline pro cyclist) to monitor airflow etc...it was fascinating.

Absolutely!! Pressure sensors on the floor, AI object detection from a camera, the sky's the limit!! 😃

That's the "analogue solution" 🤣

​@@jeffs_piintheskyI prefer to call it appropriate technology

This was very much a continuation of the prior video where I built a RAID5 array using mdadm on the command line. With OMV, I just used the ' Multiple Device's plugin to carry that through. However you can build it in OMV from scratch in the same way. Either use identically sized disks or identically sized LVM volumes as I did...But just configure those to the RAID level you want and then let the whole thing initialise.

The sensors are great...but very screamy....which I guess is the point *lol*

You can get NVMe hats with 2 m.2 slots now which could do what you want HOWEVER you'd be sharing a single PCIe lane between the two then which would impact on performance. If you get a USB3 NVMe enclosure and put an M.2 drive in there, the PI has a separate PCIe lane for ieach USB3 port so you could set that up as your boot device and it'd run much quicker than the SD.

@@jeffs_piinthesky Yes I think the USB NVMe enclosure is the way to go. Thanks again for the video and the reply!

Thanks for the support!! Much appreciated!!