PAw not working - Now working :D

[neilmurg]

I have a pilotaware that was working a year ago but now doesn't. The red light comes on and flashes 2 long 3 short, the green light also 's flashes briefly twice. Light flashes then repeat. There is no WiFi broadcast. I suspect the WiFi or dvb-t dongle. I know I need to renew the license and I want to register it to someone else.
I've ordered replacement WiFi /dvb-t.
I've downloaded the latest software (correctly) and put it in, it meats to have loaded (mem card reformatted)
Advice please

[Admin]

Neil
Can ypuattach a monitor to see any messages ?
Thx
Lee

[neilmurg]

I haven't managed to do that, I'll have another go. And try the new dongles on monday, thanks

[neilmurg]

When connected to the TV with HDMI I just get a pretty screen with blocks of colour which comes on for a second, goes off and repeats
The bridge is PA019223 and I THINK the mac addr is b8:27:eb:4c:38:7e but I'm waiting for the WiFi to confirm

[Paul_Sengupta]

That's not good, it sounds like the Pi can't read the card.

[Admin]

Hi Neil

Check the sd card is seated correctly
If it appears seated correctly, try inserting to a pc to see if it is still readable

Sounds like either a pi or sd problem

Thx
Lee

[neilmurg]

trying a new SD card
same result poorly Pi then...

[exfirepro]

Hi Neil,

Sound very like it, but try booting it without any of the dongles attached (with the HDMI attached to your TV) and see what happens. It is just possible that a dongle fault could be stopping the RPi booting properly. Worth a try to see what happens before replacing the Pi.

Regards

Peter

[neilmurg]

Good suggestion, thanks
I tried that, and with different combinations of dongles, the result was
No dongles: a single flashy light sequence as before, then nothing
Different Dongle combo's: as before, same flashy light sequence repeating.
I'm leaving it with no dongles and a fresh SD card to see what happens in 30 min
I've sourced a Pi 2 for £16, so I'm 1/2 way to my 4th PAw, win-win :-)

:Irrelevant side note:- We have a Garmin 345 Audio panel now, so if PAw used the Pi 3, I could get PAw audio on Bluetooth(?), and WiFi is built in! - I know it's not that simple... Carry on, thanks for what you've achieved, it's great stuff

[exfirepro]

Hi again Neil,

The new 'Rosetta' runs on a Pi3 B (not the newer B+ !) with built-in Wifi, so upgrade to a Pi3 is now possible, though we don't use the bluetooth as yet. We have already had requests to add Bluetooth functionality for PAW Audio out, so it may happen at some point, but it isn't 'imminent'.

If you want to change over your RPi, remember that you need to drop Lee a PM and ask him to change over your licence, as it's tied to the specific RPi MAC address.

Just a thought, what 'model' is your 'old' PAW? Is it a 'Classic' or 'Homebuilt' - and does it have a 'Bridge' fitted? I just ask because if it's a 'Homebuilt' on an RPi 1 with no 'Bridge' that would explain why the software won't run.

Keep us posted.

Regards

Peter

[neilmurg]

Thanks Peter
It's a classic, Pi 2 with a Bridge, I built 3 of them. This one was sold on at cost a year ago... hey ho 

thankyou for the realistic assessment of Bluetooth/audio, that's helpful

Wilco on the MAC address, the license needed sorting out anyway so that was always going to be a necessary step

[neilmurg]

The replacement Pi 2 B is behaving in exactly the same way.
So either:
a) I bought a cheap Pi with the same fault
b) There's something wrong with the way I'm populating the SD Card

The files on the SD card are:
 Directory of D:\

29/04/2018  16:15            17,932 bootcode.bin
29/04/2018  16:15               302 BUILD-DATA
29/04/2018  16:15             8,172 CHANGELOG.txt
29/04/2018  16:15             2,250 INSTRUCTIONS-README.txt
29/04/2018  16:15         2,572,664 recovery.img
29/04/2018  16:15               112 recovery.cmdline
29/04/2018  16:15           633,252 recovery.elf
29/04/2018  16:15        23,388,160 recovery.rfs
29/04/2018  16:15                 0 RECOVERY_FILES_DO_NOT_EDIT
29/04/2018  16:15         2,644,576 recovery7.img
29/04/2018  16:15                29 RELEASE.PilotAware.txt
29/04/2018  16:15             9,728 riscos-boot.bin
29/04/2018  16:15    <DIR>          defaults
29/04/2018  16:15    <DIR>          os
29/04/2018  16:15    <DIR>          overlays
29/04/2018  16:15            14,010 bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
29/04/2018  16:15            14,273 bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
29/04/2018  16:15            15,356 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
29/04/2018  16:15            15,992 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
              16 File(s)     29,336,808 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  15,763,800,064 bytes free

[Ian Melville]

What power supply and power cable are you using?

[neilmurg]

anker 13000 and an approved cable
I'm just trying a different Anker and cable, standby 10, it's changed behaviour...

[Admin]

its just too much of a coincidence to have two Pi's fail in the same way