Hi, i have a Raspberry Pi 3 and installed the right version for this Pi but the weirdest thing keeps happening. Yesterday i set the timezone and language to Dutch and let the device control it’s own shutdown protocol. That said, this morning i wanted to see if it was shutdown and if the time was correct. I have a HP keyboard connected via usb to the Pi, but there is no key i know of, to start the Pi up from sleep. The next thing after i disconnected the power, connected it again, did yesterday a backup and i got no connection now.
So i tried to restore, that did nothing, i try to login using my known credentials and still i am waiting (about an hour and still ongoing) for the device to connect to plex.tv… (all mainscreen options say “SEARCHING…” but then in Dutch)
At this time i have only one option left, and that is the most absurd way to cope with this problem - restore system settings to default-
That not only connects to plex.tv, but i get very quick a connection with my server.
Is this a bug in the software? because i don’t find it the right way to use it, i want the device shutdown in the evening and start her up when needed.
It is not the shutdown part, read again, it is the part where I have setup everything and made a backup and the next day after shutdown I restarted it then, only then I can get no connection to it’s server without disconnecting the lan.
Created fresh install of Rasplex,
Booted RPi,
Changed Language and Timezone,
Selected Shutdown from side menu (as stated there is no ‘sleep’ due to hardware restrictions, only way to ‘wake’ the RPi is to pull the power and reconnect),
Powered up the RPi,
Performed a backup,
No connection to PMS,
Restored backup, (did the system restart?)
No connection to PMS,
Restored System Settings, (did the system restart?),
Connected to PMS.
Is this correct?
If so, it sounds like there was some corruption of the SD card, which is why restoring the backup resulted in no improvement, any corruption would have been backed up and then restored. Restoring the System Settings rewrites the whole SD card, in effect reflashing the card.
This is not a bug.
The only way to turn the RPi off each day is to perform a ‘Shutdown’ from the side menu (this performs a graceful shutdown and prevents corruption of the SD card, pulling the power cable without doing this is a good way to corrupt the SD card) and then disconnect the power cable, powering up the RPi is done by reconnecting the power cable.
An RPi uses approximately 180ma when in idle and most users leave it on 24/7, I have several that are left in that state, one has been running like that for over a year without any noticeable increase in my electricity bill.
Ned, you got it almost, i did yesterday the login with the pincode, and i tried this morning to logon with my account - password credentials and that never succeeds. I just turned the tv on to see if the plex was still searching for connection to plex.tv, and now it has connected… Do you want me to time this? because i am now not going to auto-shut down my plex anymore, only controlled…
Thanks for the tip, and you are right about the power usage, it is minimal and therefor i leave it the way i had things running before…
About the corruption… i am not sure if that is the case now, because it works again (after a long time…)
Ned, i don’t know why loggin in with credentials over a lan cable should take this long, whilst the pin login works immediately. Thanks for thinking along…
