Re: New Member Question
Well, then you can't blame the Raspberry Pi board if you have crappy power at your remote location.
MarkKD0QYN
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Mark Griffith <mdgriffith2003@...>
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Re: New Member Question
Not all of us get to run from home. Some of us do have remote locations, including mountain tops, where the power (and other things) are not the greatest. I have one site that has been down for 6
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Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
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Re: New Member Question
Agreed.? I have had two Pi boards running for years with no issues, using the same SD cards all that time.? They are not sitting idle either and both have very good power supplies.? Most Pi boards
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Mark Griffith <mdgriffith2003@...>
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Re: New Member Question
Similar to the experience of?KG4PID, I have a Pi configured as a caching DNS proxy for other machines in the house. I just checked and it's been running for 189 days straight. I agree with?KI6ZHD
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Chuck K4RGN
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Re: New Member Question
The 400 will boot from an external ssd/hard drive. You don't need an external drive AND an SD card.
Nigel A. Gunn, ///shoulders.outwards.resolutions tel +1-937-971-0366
Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF and
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Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF
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Re: New Member Question
In the case of he newer Pi computers, it is already part of the hardware. Check it by running this:
ls -al /dev/watchdog*ls -al /dev/watchdog*
Mick -? W7CAT
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Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
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Re: New Member Question
A watchdog is often used for a remote computer. So if it hangs up it will cause an action to take place. A watchdog is setup in a few different ways. The way I have mine setup, it monitors an internet
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Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
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Re: New Member Question
Guys,
Thanks for the replies! Based on what's been posted, I'll keep to the default 32 bit OS that came with the '400.
- The power supply it came with is 5.1v @ 3A, so I ought to be good there.
- I
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: New Member Question
Michael - you are correct! After I posted that reply I checked the IP address of one Mini with Ethernet, then turned on WiFi and looked at it's address. By George they are both on the same subnet, so
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: New Member Question
https://diode.io/raspberry%20pi/running-forever-with-the-raspberry-pi-hardware-watchdog-20202/
https://medium.com/@arslion/enabling-watchdog-on-raspberry-pi-b7e574dcba6b
Google is your
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Melinda Pethel - KO4KBT
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Re: New Member Question
It's electronic hardware added to a system that will periodically check to see if the system is working and, if not, issue a warning and probably reboot the system.
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Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF
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Re: New Member Question
David,
When I say it went into the weeds, I meant it was completely frozen. No amount of keyboarding or mouse movement would get it going. Could not get to it from any other computer - it was frozen,
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: New Member Question
What is the ¡°Watchdog¡±?
Mikeal R. Hughes, BA., MA., D.Min., Th.D., Ph.D.
Amateur Extra, GROL, MOS, Comp Tia A+, Network+, Security+, CEH
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Dr. Mikeal Hughes
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Re: New Member Question
Pardon my ignorance. You have a local network within your house with just your stuff on it. You have the Macs in your shack and the RPi in the garage. The Macs are on Ethernet and the RPi is wireless.
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Michael WA7SKG
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Re: New Member Question
For reliability and speed use a USB SSD rather than an SD card.
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Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF
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Re: New Member Question
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)
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David Ranch
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Re: New Member Question
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
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Max
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Re: New Member Question
Sounds like a situation where a watchdog would help.
Mick - W7CAT
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Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
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Re: New Member Question
I'd stay with the 32 bit, at least for now. If you can VPN using Ethernet then wireless won't be any different as long as they are both on the same network.
The quality of the uSD card and power
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Max
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Re: New Member Question
Hello Jim,
Can you define "weeds"? Could you ping them? Maybe log into them remotely using say SSH or VNC?
Raspberry Pi OS still defaults to 32bit though a 64bit version is in long-term beta.
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David Ranch
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