He, I wish. I don’t have access to a 3D printer either at home or in the close area. I’d have to go to the closest big city for that and at that point it costs as much in fuel as it’d cost to get a new one. Granted I have to find one that suits my needs to begin with.
What car do you have? Dacia Sandero Stepway
Didn’t you want to use it for your music as well with navidrome? Maybe, if the USB port works, then I’ll use Navidrome on it and put the music that way through the car speaker. If they don’t, I can plug my phone to the car speakers and the Pi to bluetooth external speakers. The phone only crashes during satnav. By the way I did a recovery reset, i’ll try a drive today and see how it goes.
CoMaps may be up your alley, uses OSM. Thanks for the name, current app in testing is OsmAnd, as i’ve seen it recommended a lot. If it doesn’t work I’ll try CoMaps.
Especially since I just bought the car a few weeks before. I feel you, this phone was bought specifically for car use. My former one was slow, but I don’t use my phone much so there was no point in upgrading. I got the Oppo A51 back then because it had decent reviews for the price and I had a deal on it. But I think it’s not beefy enough. It thermal throttles very easily, too.
I didn’t know about osmin! I might try it out.
For the poweroff, I’ll just poweroff the Pi from the UI and wait a sec for it to go down. Initial testing has me waiting 10 seconds on the “shutting down” screen. That’s short enough, meanwhile I can put my jacket on or something. Once off, I just unplug it. It’s also running on SSD because I don’t trust SD cards to endure constant read/write from satnav so I installed from SD card and cloned the OS to an SSD, it should be more resilient this way.
For the audio, I’ll first try the obvious and plug the Pi to the USB A of the factory car unit. Maybe it’ll detect it as mass storage media and give it access to the built in audio system. Else, I’ll just use a bluetooth speaker I have at home. I don’t need good audio for “turn left/turn right”, just to hear it.
The whole project is an attempt at getting rid of Android Auto and having my own standalone unit that will free me from unwanted updates both from the OS and the apps. I’ve had Waze become useless three times in the span of two years because they pushed updates that made the app unstable enough to not be reliable.
For the viewing angle, on the car next to the existing head unit screen, there’s a mounting bracket. I’ll use that to mount a 7inch display I got. It’ll sit right above the existing one if that doesn’t obstruct the view too much, else I’ll have to get one of those arms with joints and lower it somewhere not annoying.
My bluetooth speaker is the perfect size to sit in the cup holder so if the car audio isn’t possible, then there’s a plan B.
I’ll try the recovery mode for my phone and see if that helps!
Use a software/app to meal plane. (Mealie/Tandoor) You pick the recipes you fancy for the days/week/whatever period. It generates a grocery list containing exactly what is needed for the meals you chose, nothing else.
I haven’t thrown away anything in a couple years now. Oh and freeze leftovers if needed.
Hey, thanks for the link. I haven’t looked at that type of parts because I’m not confident tinkering with the car, especially since it’s still fairly new and I’m too afraid to damage some plastic. And I also don’"t have any spare room available on the dashboard anywhere.
There’s a little nook to empty your pocket between the gear shifter (manual car) and the dashboard but it’s wide open, fairly hot, and probably still too small even to fit a raspberry pi in a case with the cooling I’ll need.
That’s why I’ve been looking at external solutions. If wires weren’t an issue, I’d put a trunk/boot organizer at the back and store the pi unit there during drives but it’s not practical with the wiring. Still routing cables in my head in case I’d get an idea.
Here’s a photo I found of the front of the car: https://www.ouestfrance-auto.com/sites/default/files/sandero_stepway_1_0.jpg
Yeah that might end up being necessary, I haven’t found any easy solution to provide the 5A/5V required by a Pi5. Still pondering the power supply issue.
Thanks! I’ve studied this option and Pi5 needs 5A/5V. I haven’t found something adequate yet for that power requirement. So I’m actually considering going for a Pi4 instead.
Yeah, that’s one thing still on the drawing board. The reason my phone crashes seems to be thermal throttling due to heat buildup with use. That’s another reason I want to build my own device instead of buying one from some company, I can factor in the cooling and try to adapt to the hot environment better.
Do you have places where you can buy those old business drives? Are there websites for this market?
I think it’s still a migration of a rather knowledgeable part of the windows users. I did migrate a year ago because of frustrations from windows pop ups showing up like they own the computer.
I a still reluctant to recommend it to my partner who is comfortable with windows but not really techy. As long as Linux works, it works. But when you need something a bit more involved or something breaks, the terminal will be harder for those users who might not have ever opened CMD in windows.
Please add a disclaimer to the documents stating it was machine translated. Machine translation can get it wrong or take liberties, make up stuff. Please inform your readers so they can be on the lookout.
Keep in mind the translated stuff by machine translation won’t be 100% what you say in your native language to other students. Be careful not to spread wrong information or knowledge.
Translator here. They do make up stuff or omit stuff they don’t like. Machine translation is fine for tourists or to translate a ikea manual in the wrong language. If there are stakes, risky. They got good enough to make sentences that look right so it can be tricky to spot the errors if you don’t pay attention.
Numbers are typical errors. Sometimes it’s there but the number has changed. Sometimes it’s not there at all. Oh and if you have currencies a translators knows a document from the UK in pounds that is adapted for France will have to be converted in euros. Machines don’t.
Generally speaking when a client wants to use machine translation, it costs them more money in the end because of the extra time needed to correct everything to a high human grade standard.
Take it easy, you’ll get your vr legs eventually. The key for me was to learn to detect when my body was starting to feel bad, stop immediately and go take a break. If you stop the symptoms early you can take regular short breaks instead of being drowsy all night.
Also, find some easier games for your stomach. Typically, stuff in a vehicle/plane/spaceship is easier for the brain because it understands something is moving but not you.
Static games work too. Beat saber is the classic but I’d like to recommend SynthRider.
Also, play around with the settings when you’re fresh and see what works. The black blinders on the side help most people but it make nausea worse for me.
I think I solved the permission issue? See edit in the main post.
Is there a command to check that?
sudo chmod 777 /your/linguacafe/temp/folder -R
I have done that and it doesn’t seem to help. Edited main post to reflect that.
Sorry that’s on me. That’s one thing I removed from the pastebin file on purpose, it’s here in the real one. I copy paste my path to be sure it’s correct.
You can already do something similar manually with an app called Grocy. I tried it and didn’t last two week, too much time spent scanning barcodes and dealing with inventory. I was hoping to save time to generate grocery list faster, not spend my life on it.
I had GPSD working nicely, confirmed both by cgps -s and mongps, but I was stuck on geoclue. Whatever I did, the GPS wouldn’t send data to Organic Maps. I kept having this error: “Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/1”” despite being 100% sure client1 was the right one.
Going to Lineage OS was much easier for me and I just needed a working GPS. Linux GPS will stay in the “challenge todo list”, because I’d like to figure it out eventually. I most likely was doing something stupid.