If this is the wrong place to post, please let me know where I can post this. I ordered a PiOLED for this project and would hate to let it go to waste.
Hello all, I recently set up Pi Hole on my Pi zero. This is my first project so I followed all the instructions here:
https://learn.adafruit.com/pi-hole-ad-b ... 2740982-22
I reached this part and got stuck:
Create a new file with nano ~pi/stats.py and paste this code below in! Then save it.
The ~pi directory doesn't exist when I open nano. Am I missing something? Is there another
directory that I have to put the stats.py file in? Hopefully this is a noob mistake and its easily solvable. Thanks!
Beginner Needing Help Setting Up PiOLED
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Re: Beginner Needing Help Setting Up PiOLED
Use either '/home/pi/' or '~/' not '~pi/' for the home directory.
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Re: Beginner Needing Help Setting Up PiOLED
How are you connecting to the Pi?
Looks like you are editing as user admin instead of pi?
Looks like you are editing as user admin instead of pi?
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Re: Beginner Needing Help Setting Up PiOLED
When I enter nano ~/stats.py it takes me to /home/admin/stats.py , I pasted the PiOLED code in there, is that the proper directory?freddyboomboom wrote:Use either '/home/pi/' or '~/' not '~pi/' for the home directory.
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I used putty to ssh to the Pi, and I logged in to my pi using the name and password I created when I set the Pi up. How can I edit as pi instead? Sorry I am really new to this.adafruit_support_carter wrote:How are you connecting to the Pi?
Looks like you are editing as user admin instead of pi?
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Re: Beginner Needing Help Setting Up PiOLED
This is basic Linux stuff.
The user you are logged in as will have a "home" directory.
The home directories are located in /home/
The learn guide presumes you are using the default user named "pi".
So for the user named "pi", the home directory would be /home/pi/
For the user named "admin", the home directory would be /home/admin/
Linux and other Unix-like operating systems have a shortcut to /home/ that is using the tilde character ~.
So with the shortcut, the home directory for the user names "pi" you could use ~/ in place of typing out /home/pi/.
You should read the Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide from here: https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/beg ... ide-4th-ed There is a free PDF you can download.
The user you are logged in as will have a "home" directory.
The home directories are located in /home/
The learn guide presumes you are using the default user named "pi".
So for the user named "pi", the home directory would be /home/pi/
For the user named "admin", the home directory would be /home/admin/
Linux and other Unix-like operating systems have a shortcut to /home/ that is using the tilde character ~.
So with the shortcut, the home directory for the user names "pi" you could use ~/ in place of typing out /home/pi/.
You should read the Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide from here: https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/beg ... ide-4th-ed There is a free PDF you can download.
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Re: Beginner Needing Help Setting Up PiOLED
Yep, agree with above. Make sure you are accessing the Pi as user pi, and not something else, like admin.
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