Hi mm,
Not much to go on there unfortunately! Did you leave the Rosetta running while you were at Gloucester? How is it powered? Not much else we can determine I’m afraid if the unit is refusing to boot up.
I don’t think I’ve ever come across a case where the microSD card got hot - occasionally warm, but certainly never as hot as you say, so it sounds like something has gone seriously wrong. Oh and if you took the card out while the unit was powered up, that won’t have done the card any good!
From your second post, you imply that the
card reader is ‘dead’. I would suggest it’s more likely that whatever has happened has fatally corrupted the card - possibly instigated as you suggest by the unit overheating. If this is the case, it’s almost certainly not worth trying to reinstate the card, so your first step is to buy a new card and load the latest software from https:// PilotAware.lode.co.uk then see if you can get the unit running again. Alternatively you can buy a new card with the latest software preloaded from the PilotAware website here...
https://pilotaware.com/product/pre-loaded-sd-card-20190621/If you can manage, it would be useful to connect the unit to a monitor or TV with an HDMI cable for the first restart, so you can see how the unpacking and reconfiguration of the software is proceeding. You will know it has unpacked and booted successfully when the login prompt appears. You should then be able to reconnect to the PAW WiFi and continue with re-configuration. If you can’t attach a monitor, remember to leave the unit alone for at least 30 minutes after inserting the new card and powering it up, before attempting to connect to it.
Assuming this works, you will then of course have to re-enter all your configuration settings, including the licence key.
Hopefully the unit will then be resurrected.
Please let us know how you get on.
Best Regards
Peter
Edit: Re-reading this morning, I just realised I should have said... ‘With the card out, Rosetta will of course just sit and look at you, except perhaps for a single red ‘Power On’ LED inside the case behind the P3i Antenna which isn’t always immediately obvious, as all the operating software is
on the card’. Also, I’m concerned by the fact that you say the unit... ‘still gets very hot very quickly’ even when powered up without a card in it. Without the card, it shouldn’t be doing anything. For an electronic device to get hot (without an external heat source beating down on it) it would have to be drawing excessive amounts of electric current - usually due to a fault, but the unit is protected by a built in poly fuse. How are you powering it at home? We need to work out what is going on here. I would suggest getting in touch with Ash..
support@pilotaware.com to request returning your unit for testing.