I would say that if anyone wants any level of longevity of operation
on a Raspberry Pi, they must do a few key things:
?? - Use a known good / competent power supply (ideally outputs 5.1v
@ 3A)
?? - Learn and understand that pulling the power / unexpected
reboots on a RaspberryPi must be avoided at all costs (SD card
corruption)
?? - Use larger SD cards (within reason) as it helps to spread out
the wear
?? - Write all logs to a RAM drive or remote syslog server and NOT
write to the SD card itself as micro-SD cards are not well suited
for lots of read/write cycles
?? - Keep your PI's operating systems patched and rebooted on a
regular cadence
?? - Enabling a watchdog is helpful but not as good as you might
hope
There are other items but these are most of the big ones..
--David
KI6ZHD
On 01/28/2022 08:16 AM, Max via
groups.io wrote:
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I rather fix the problem, not
cure the symptoms! Once the Pi is running reliably, then turn
on the watchdog if it is mission critical.
Max KG4PID
On Friday, January 28, 2022, 10:10:31 AM CST, Teton
Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
<tarra@...> wrote:
Sounds like a situation where a watchdog would help.
Mick - W7CAT
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bennett / K7TXA via groups.io"
To:
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 08:29:12 AM
Subject: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] New Member Question
> Hi Folks - new member here. I've had several RPis
over the past few years and gradually grew away from
them, mostly due to unreliability. They seemed to go off
into the weeds when left on for days at a time with no
use. However I recently bought one of the new RPi 400
units for misc. tasks around my garage woodworking shop
and possibly connection to an Icom IC-705. I have yet to
connect it and power it up, but expect that'll happen
later today or tomorrow.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jim / K7TXA (ex-W6JHB)
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