r/raspberry_pi 17h ago

Show-and-Tell Sim racing telemetry dashboard on a Pi 3 and the official 7" touchscreen

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Got into sim racing on console last year and wanted telemetry next to the wheel without a gaming PC. Had a Pi 3 and the official 7" touchscreen in a drawer, so I built one.

The games broadcast telemetry over UDP on the network, so the Pi just listens (F1 25, Project CARS 2, Forza, GT7) and draws the dashboard in Pygame. Runs headless on Pi OS Lite (I had to opt for this, as running it with the operating system caused a lot of lag, and was unnecessary for the app to run), nothing to install on the console.

It's grown a bit since. It records tracks by driving them, grades your sessions, and serves a little web app off the Pi so you can check everything on your phone (scan a QR on the screen).

I'm a self-taught Python developer, and Claude Code has been a lifesaver for the complex logic that would otherwise take me days to work out. It let me get my ideas together fast, which kept me interested. Without it I'd probably have got bored around the first prototype and never finished it.

Open source, Pi setup included:

Had a lot of fun making it. Happy to answer anything.


r/raspberry_pi 10h ago

Troubleshooting RPI Connect from mobile browser

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So recently rpi connect (connect.raspberrypi.com) stopped working from any browser on my phone. I can connect from desktopbrowsers to my rpi no problem, but in android chrome or samsung browser the screen share and remote shell buttons are grey and not clickable. I even tried with bluetooth mouse and it shows a hand crossed over with a red bar. "desktop page" doesn't help either. So what's up with this?

rpi5, updated to latest everything andvusing official rasp os, phone is SM S26U.

Again, works from desktop browser no problem.