Hi all,
I just bought my first Pi with the aim to install RaspyFi and make a cheap but awesome music streamer.
So I downloaded the RapsyFi distro. I bought a Transcend 8Gb Class 10 SDHC and mounted the image as with Win32DiskImager as described here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
Result: Pi won't boot. The red light is constantly on; the green light flashes once and then nothing. Also on my router the indicatorlight for the port the Pi is on does not light. Troubleshooting on the official R-Pi website says this is because no boot can be found on the SD Card.
I tried to flash the SD Card again in my laptop, but this would not work. It couldn't flash it again. In my laptop it only shows a partition of 75Mb, I tried several partitioning tools but I can't get the full 8Gb back and reflash it.
I thought I bricked the SD Card. Just bought a new one, a Kingson 8Gb Class 10. Mounted it again in the same way, checked the card and the necessary files are on it. Tried it in the Pi, same problem. Only one green flash, but no boot. Same problem; only shows 75Mb and cannot reflash it.
Both SD cards are compatible with the Pi according to the R-Pi Wiki. I have no idea what the problem is and no clue what to do for troubleshooting. Any ideas how I can get the Pi running?
Yesterday I used my Sony Xperia Z charger as power supply (this one was tested as very stable). This morning the ModMyPi psu/USB-hub arrived so I am using that one now.
Laptop is a HP Compaq 8510W with built-in cardreader and running Win7 64-bit. I thought maybe the cardreader was only SD compatible and not SDHC, but I cannot find the specifications on it and I've used microSDHC cards in the past without any problems.
18:36
I have experienced exactly the same problem with a 4GB Transcend class 10 card brand new. With other images like raspbian, I had no problem. But it seems that the raspyfi 1.0 image downloaded is wrong.
The worst thing is that the SD card is now useless. I cannot fix the partitions with any tool, formatting doesnt help… now I have a brand new 75MB card .
I will not try again for a while, it's a bit expensive to be a beta tester like this.
Hmm.. that's a bit of a bummer. I really hope to get RaspyFi running, otherwise I've bought my Pi with all the accesoiries for nothing. Well, not for nothing. I can always try XMBC but that doesn't support WiFi to my knowledge, so that will be a problem.
I downloaded the image via Sourceforge. Same here, I don't want to keep buying SD cards.
For tonight I have planned to try to get Raspbian running. But for that I first have to fix the SD cards since I don't have any other SDHC cards lying around (bought the new one just before the shop closed). I'm going to take a look at it from a Linux Live dvd, see if GParted can be of any help.
Thanks for the tip, Michael!
Castorp, good news for you: with GParted Live (bootable usb/dvd) I was able to restore the partitions of the SD Cards. When flashing the image a bootable Linux-partition (ext2/3/4) is made. Windows cannot read these partitions, but Linux can. However, although I've partitioned both SD cards as FAT32, Windows won't recognize the Kingston anymore. Strange, maybe double-check in GParted that it really is Fat32.
Edit: for some reason it works after a reboot..
Unfortunately Windows did not recognize the SD cards if I partitioned them before reflashing the RapsyFi image. Too bad, but I'm not planning on storing data on it.
By replacing the files as described in Michael's link, I managed to get RaspyFi working! As we speak I am listening to GroveJazz radio via the Pi, connected to my Schiit Modi DAC and controlled via the wireless network (with the Edimax usb-dongle).
Next steps:
- Try streaming via Airfoil (untill the harddisk is connected)
- Build a case for the Pi
- Get an IDE/USB-adapter for my 200Gb harddisk and copy all my music onto it
Okay, no luck yet with AirPlay.
I've installed the trial versions of Airfoi and TuneBlade. Both programs cannot see the RaspyFi as Airplay receiver. I've tried opening ports 80, 443 and 554; these are apparently used for Airplay. But without any luck.
AirDroid app can't find the Pi either. Twonky Beam app did find the RaspyFi once, but failed to connect. After that it does not recognize the Pi anymore.
How do I enable/switch to Airplay on the Pi?
01:09
Good news, using gparted I managed to restore a 4GB FAT32 partition, and it was visible in Windows.
Now I'm aplying Michael's fix. Let's see.
Thanks!
Castorp said
I will not try again for a while, it's a bit expensive to be a beta tester like this.
Usually beta testers read support forums looking for already answered problems…
10:35
14 settembre 2013
Get SDFormatter to format the sd.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
Karsten
Pffew, running RaspyFi is not easy..
Yesterday I tried to connect to a shared folder on my laptop. After rebooting the Pi I was unable to connect to MPD. The Pi was still connected to the network and I could access it through SSH, but MPD was unable to connect and also the webinterface was inaccesible.
Finally, by restarting the MPD service a few times I got it working again. Restarting and debugging with the commands in the MPD Troubleshoot Wiki (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Musi…..oubleshoot) does not always work. With the netstat-command however I was able to find out that the deamon was trying to run multiple instances.
This did the trick:
Stopping the server: sudo /var/run/mpd stop
Starting: sudo /var/run/mpd start
Still I cannot get Airplay working. My phone (Twonky Beam app) recognizes the Pi once, when I connect the audio is terribly slow and distorted with cracks and pops. After I stop playing, it doesn't recognize the Pi untill I reboot it. On my laptop TuneBlade and AirFoil don't see the Pi as a receiver.
I think this has something to do with the network. On my laptop, I can only access the Pi's webinterface by typing its full address, 192.168.1.149. Also I cannot access the Pi via \\Raspyfi to copy new webradio's. The other way around, the Pi cannot connect to the shared folder on my laptop.
With my smarthphone I can connect to the shared folder on my laptop and the Pi using ES File Explorer. Also, some other apps do find the Rapsyfi Airplay (but playback is very crappy).
Any ideas?
1- When Pi doesn't boot it because you have a newer Pi model with hynix RAM. Just apply the fix Michael posted and it will work, we'll fix this in next release
2- If you see only a 56 mb partition on your SD Card, it's normal, IT IS NOT BRICKED. Raspberry Pi needs 2 partitions to boot, one 56 mb FAT32 partition and the rest is on ext3, which windows cannot read. This happens with all distributions (raspbian etc)
3- Airplay may need the bonjour service to be available on your system, so try to install iTunes, or just this file if you don't want iTunes:
http://www.raspyfi.com/wp-cont…..rSetup.exe
Remember also to stop playing via webui prior to start airplay
4-If airplay is very slow, it means that mpd is updating is database, wait for it to finish. This is a bug we already fixed, we are collecting some more feedbacks and then you'll have a new version.
5- If something doesn't work, please don't act like a crybaby or start pointlessly whining. In order to help us fixing that you shall give us the most accurate feedbacks you can. And bear in mind always, we are all volunteers and you're getting this for free.
19:49
Hi all,
i modified /etc/network/interfaces with ssid and password.
* lsusb shows my wlan0 usb
* ifconfig shows wlan0 has ipadress
* i can open raspyfi UI on wlan0 adress in browser.
* i can setup ssh session to wlanadres
(above also goes for eth0)
now for the weird part:
above only works with eth0 connected!?!
when i remove cable on eth0 the connection from laptop to wlan0 ipadres is disconnected.
I'm really, REALLY confused. Never seen ths before
19:50
Hi all,
i modified /etc/network/interfaces with ssid and password.
* lsusb shows my wlan0 usb
* ifconfig shows wlan0 has ipadress
* i can open raspyfi UI on wlan0 adress in browser.
* i can setup ssh session to wlanadres
(above also goes for eth0)
now for the weird part:
above only works with eth0 connected!?!
when i remove cable on eth0 the connection from laptop to wlan0 ipadres is disconnected.
I'm really, REALLY confused. Never seen ths before
@admin
1 – Yes, but I didn't know that. Luckily it works now.
2 – See 1. Also solved that.
3 – I know. Bonjour is already installed. I discovered the problem is with my Symantec Endpoit Protection, this blocks traffic. When disabled, I can connect with the Pi via Tuneblade. However I am still figuring out how to add the exceptions in SEP to allow the Pi without having to disable my firewall alltogether.
4 – In that case MPD was not updating because there was nothing to update, no NAS or external hdd connected. It was the connection with my phone. No problem however, was only to illustrate that my phone could see the Pi as Airplay device it but my laptop couldn't.
5 – Sorry if I came over as a crybaby. Stuff just didn't work the way I expected and I couldn't find an answer since a lot of things are specific for the Pi. In the end, that's what a forum is for, right?
Anyways, in the meantime I've stumbled upon a real problem I think.
Short story: shutdown the Pi, connected my external hdd (Samsung G2 portable, 640 Gb, formatted in FAT32, filled with 103 Gb of music in flac and mp3 format) and rebooted. It started updating the DB but got stuck after a few minutes. I let it run for a few more hours while I was at the university. When I got home, MPD crashed and I could not restart it via the SSH. Rebooted the Pi, it had lost its DB and started updating. Again got stuck on the same folder. Deleted that folder, started updating again, it got stuck on the next folder. Removed the folder right before the one it gets stuck on, still keeps stalling on the same point. This is at about 45 Gb. Both webGUI and command "mpc" in SSH say the database is still updating, however no files are added.
I checked, the disk does not contain any zip/rar-files or videos (this makes xmbc crash sometimes I read). I cannot find how to view MPD's update log via SSH. How do I do that?
That was meant for other users, hope you didn't got it bad…
Anyway, the problem you are experiencing is another bug, which we solved. As of now there's no way to fix it for you, we'll release the new version asap… It turns out that there is a wrong configuration on mpd that makes database update too long when it encounters certain tag types. I'm sorry but as of now the best thing you can do is use only a little part of your library… Hope we can release soon…
Haha, no problem. I also made asked some questions before doing proper research so I wouldn't blame you
About the bug, too bad. Any idea which tag type(s) cause it to stall? I already thought it had to do something with bad files or similar. I assumed it scans folder by folder in alphabetic order so I expected that removing the folder it got stuck on would do the trick. Apparantly not, unfortunately. I'm looking forward to the new release then! I guess it's not something one can easily change manually in the config?
Is there any way to stop the updating of the DB when it stalls? MPD crashed again last night so I couldn't use it this morning.
And what is the SSH command to restart the MPD service? I keep getting the error that the pid file cannot be found.
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