I got my first parts in the mail this afternoon and have been anxiously awaiting getting everything put together. Fast forward a few hours and I cannot get my head around the display issues I'm seeing. Standard HDMI connection to my Denon 1613 out to my LG TV.
First, I loaded the current build (0.3.1) of Rasplex through the installer on my Mac. 8GB transend class 10 SD card. Ready to rock? Nope. The Plex UI would present itself for anywhere between 5-15 seconds, then just disappear giving me the gray screen of death. Ping sessions last maybe a couple minutes after that until the unit either fully crashes, or goes into some sort of sleep.
So, I went to my Windows 8 laptop and decided to see if it was software related by loading the stable build of raspbian on the SD card. Booted up the rpi and everything worked great...no "gray lines of death" for 15 minutes while I cooked dinner.
Decided to fully overwrite the SD card using SD associations utility and retry the rasplex gui installer (stable build) on the Windows laptop and give it another go round. Same thing as my first attempt.
Is there something I'm missing that's obvious? Is it an OpenElec issue, Rasplex issue, or something else? Is there some sort of CEC handshake issues? Currently running with the 0.3.1 build of RasPlex
For giggles, I unplugged the network cable from the RaspberryPi before powering on and it sits patiently at the "Welcome to RasPlex" screen indefinitely. I went through the setup and was presented with the Plex GUI.
At least until I plug the network cable back into it.
At that point, I'm presented with a variation of the image above the moment I attempt to navigate from anywhere I was previously able to traverse through in the Rasplex menu.
Pings still resolve - SSH now not working any longer.
Are you using als powersupply that delivers at least 700mA? If you use one that can only deliver 500mA (for ex the usb from your tv) crazy stuff like this can happen.
Are you using als powersupply that delivers at least 700mA? If you use one that can only deliver 500mA (for ex the usb from your tv) crazy stuff like this can happen.
Thought about that late last night. Was using a OEM Blackberry charger rated at 700mA, so decided to try my OEM iPhone charger rated a 1A, but still no go.
We haven't found the reason for this issue yet and we cannot reproduce it.
If you can investigate it and report additionnal feedback that would be apreciated :)
Yep, that looks precisely like my issue. Especially the part of where it started crashing every time after the plex media server was located. For me this was the part where I entered my PIN into my.plexapp.com/pin.
I'll look over what all is involved to contribute to a bug report, but that guy looks like he's got a pretty good read on what he's doing pullling the required logs, etc... for Dale.
