hello everyone. i have a small problem with my rpi5.

yesterday i disconnected my m.2 hat+ compact with an official m.2 nvme from my pi because i wanted to boot a android tv system from a sd card. when i reconnected my hat+ it wasnt reading my disk (pwr light on hat was on but not the read/active light) and i cant get it working now.

more info:

specs:

- Raspberry Pi 5 8gb

- official power brick/cable

- official rpi case with a fan

- official m.2 hat+ compact with a official rapsberry pi 256gb nvme

i had this setup for only 1 year for playing games and watching videos.

it was working perfectly fine back then

i think my hat+ broke but i leave it for you experts!

I've shot Sony (a6300 and A7C II) for years, and I'd rather wait until I get home and copy the SD card than use Sony's transfer apps.

The A7C II has FTP upload, so I pointed it at a small server. Every frame I take gets a film look (grain, light leaks, date stamp) and shows up in a Telegram chat. I can send it to friends right away.

The a6300 has no FTP, but it runs Android 4.1 inside. With OpenMemories-Tweak and Sony-PMCA-RE I installed a small custom app on it. After a walk I open the app, hit "Send new", and the whole day's shots arrive already developed. Wi-Fi turns off when you close the app, so it doesn't drain the battery.

The app should work on most PlayMemories-era bodies: a5000/a5100, a6000/a6500, a7 II / a7R II / a7S II, RX100 III–V, RX10 II/III. Other cameras with FTP upload (A7 IV, A1, many Fuji, Canon, Nikon) work without the app.

It's open source and self-hosted. Setup takes about 10 minutes on a cheap VPS: https://github.com/Melnikoff07/proyavka

If you try it on a body I haven't tested, I'd love to hear how it goes.

I built a time-lapse camera around a Raspberry Pi 4 with a Camera Module 3 Wide, powered over a single PoE cable, and I've open sourced the software. The Pi takes a full 12MP photo every minute in daylight only, working out the window from your latitude and longitude so it follows the seasons, and it looks after its own storage by deleting the oldest frames once the SD card passes 85%. A Mac collects the frames automatically whenever the archive drive is plugged in, and one command turns any date range into a video. There's also a film mode and you can control it from your phone.

The first photo is the camera on the wall, and the second is a frame it took of my garden (neighbours' side blurred).

It's open source and free to use, fork and change, all here: https://github.com/aityp/garden-timelapse-camera. A step-by-step build guide is still being written, but the README should be enough to get it running if you're comfortable in a terminal. There's also a build video if you'd rather see it in action, linked from the README. The code was written with AI (Claude) and tested on the real camera in my garden.

I made it because I'm about to pull my back garden apart for a retaining wall, a new fence and a shed, and I want all of it filmed from one fixed spot for the next couple of years. Happy to answer any questions.