No rs.local or IP

swstone · December 21, 2021, 2:38pm

I recently moved and my RS was not showing up on my new network. I decided to start from scratch, fully reformatted the SD card, loaded the RS operating system for gitlab. My router initially detected the RPi but with no IP address, but eventually it did obtain an address. There was no response to ping on the IP address or to Angry IP Scanner. When I plugged a monitor and keyboard, I saw a normal boot up screen, ending with a login request, which responded to the myshake user and correct password. It would come back with the station name and eventually with the IP address. BTW, the RS is connected directly to the router.

The installation README says: “Your Pi will now boot into NOOBS and should display a list of operating systems that you can choose to install.” This never happens–just the login.

I’m obviously missing something really obvious here, but I’m just not seeing it. As you might surmise, I’m pretty frustrated with this, especially since I’ve had it running previously for years and I have several other systems uploading data such as a PurpleAir, AIS tracker, ADS-B tracker, WX (weewx) and Sense (AC power monitor) all working well.

Stan Stone
MAC address:
B8:27:eb:f2:a9:93

Ping results:
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 11
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 12
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 13
^[ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 14
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 15
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 16
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 17

Stormchaser · December 21, 2021, 5:40pm

Hello swstone, welcome to our community!

Yes, I can understand the frustration when something that should easily work doesn’t, it happened many times with easy-to-do things to me too.

If you haven’t already tried, could I ask you to please try to re-burn the microSD card to see if this behaviour disappears? Or, if you have another microSD card available, to try and burn that one, to see if the element that was causing issues was the previous microSD?

I’ll add the steps below for your convenience, but I’m sure that you already know them:

Please take the microSD card you have and format it before burning the new Shake OS image
Make sure, when you format it, that the shown capacity is the maximum (i.e. if the SD card is 32GB like yours, then the capacity should be near or equal to that value). This is to check that no partitions have been involuntarily and erroneously created. They could be the cause of the error we see now
Take care to format the SD card in a FAT32 File System (or exFAT if the SD card is 64GB or larger)
Download the new Shake OS image from here: https://gitlab.com/raspberryShake-public/raspshake-sd-img/-/raw/main/raspishake-release.zip
And follow the microSD burning instructions from here: raspishake-microSD-card-software-Instructions.txt · main · raspberryShake-public / Raspshake Sd Img · GitLab

I followed the numbered list points to burn the files on my SD cards, and I have not used Etcher or similar software.

If this step doesn’t work, we will try to explore other possible options.

Thank you for your collaboration.

swstone · December 23, 2021, 2:50pm

Thanks for your reply. I had already done all of the steps you outlined (more than once). I decided to replace the RPi 3-B that had run for years with a RPi 3-B+ used on another project. BINGO! Everything worked fine. Of course I now have a different station ID ( AM.R19A5.00.E[HZ,NZ,NN,NE] ), but that’s okay.

Happy to be back online and thanks again.

Stormchaser · December 24, 2021, 1:07pm

No problem at all swstone, I’m happy to hear that the Shake is online again!

Thanks also for updating me about the issue, I remember I had to change a Pi board too for another project of mine some time ago, because it was causing similar problems when the OS inside the microSD started to run.

Enjoy Shaking (again)!