“I've alwasy been an Arduino chap, but just started to move over to the RPi platform in regards to home automation / smart home. Richard has been a font of technical help and advice in adding me with my ambitious plans and questions. I'm learning everyday with the RPi. I have successes and I have failures. All part of the fun.”
“I bought the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB to replace my old Steam Link hardware as it wasn't capable of streaming 2160p. I nearly have 2160p 30Hz being streamed perfectly. I just have a couple of niggles I can hopefully work out. I'd much prefer 60Hz if I can get it there.
It streams 1080p great but I had the Steam Link hardware for that already.
I couldn't get the Pi to run Raspberry OS at 4K 60Hz. I enabled the option in the Pi Config tool and rebooted but it doesn't get past the debug colour wheel on boot. This might be a power issue though as I didn't buy the official cable. I don't have many other USB-C cables to try. I may purchase one at some point but the price is a little steep for me right now.
A point for Pi Hut to note is that my letter box is vertical and near enough eye level. I was near the door when the postie decided to drop it through. My heart sank as I knew that was going to be my Pi on the floor. Please can you post in something that won't fit through a letter box or at least put fragile on the box. I have no idea if that incident has impacted the life of my Pi. No immediate damage but who knows what that drop has done. If only he'd knocked. :(”
“Beats Amazon on price, delivery time and sound packaging. This is my first Pi 4 and yes they do run warmer than the Pi 3 - I had to go elsewhere for a passive cooling case, because for a 'fit and forget' backup and remote access system I wanted to avoid the reliability and maintenance issues connected with using a fan. Time will tell if that's a good choice.”
“Easy to programme and works without any glitches whatsoever. Using the Pi 4 allowed me to build a network streamer equivalent to off the shelf products worth more than twice the money!”
