Just bought a Raspberry Pi 3 and can’t get either of latest versions of RasPlex to boot.
Have run NOOBS successfully - first from new preinstalled 8GB micro SD card, then by download ing and installing NOOBS to new 32GB card I want to use ‘for real’ with RasPlex - so have proved the hardware works.
I used the GetRasplex installer on iMac, and used it to select the .img.gz file from download. It appeared to complete successfully, and I got a plausible list of files readable on the Mac from the newly-written card.
With either version installed in the RPi3, on power on I get the red power light, then immediately four long green flashes, then four quick ones, then a pause, then repeat indefinitely. I only get a multicoloured square on the display, which occupies the whole height of the landscape monitor and even after minutes, nothing else appears.
Are my downloaded images faulty? I got them off GitHub, as the RasPlex.com website appears mostly broken - almost none of the links work, and it has been this way for at least several days.
I read elsewhere that eight flashes on boot indicates missing or corrupt boot files of some sort.
If I extract the .img file, is there another tool to transfer it to make a bootable micro-SD card?
Any other suggestions, please? I would REALLY like this to work. Had tried RasPlex on an older model Pi B, which uses a full size SD card, but it seems it doesn’t have enough memory to run - got as far as Loading… then stalled.
Thank you for responding so quickly. And sorry if this is a duplicate reply - I composed one, and thought I’d submitted it, but maybe I hit delete instead.
It isn’t important for the moment whether my RPi3 has WiFi or Bluetooth enabled, so if either v1.0.1 or 1.0.2 will run, I can do without them at least for the moment.
I suspect that I’ve done something wrong in transferring the files to the SD card. But I don’t know what. When I look again on my Mac ‘Get Info’ says there’s only 79MB used of a capacity of 536MB, and it is formatted FAT16.
So GetRasplex has overwritten my previous full FAT32 format, which gave me the full 32GB of the card’s capacity. Seems wrong, but I don’t know how to fix it.
@Jwmcc said:
It isn’t important for the moment whether my RPi3 has WiFi or Bluetooth enabled, so if either v1.0.1 or 1.0.2 will run, I can do without them at least for the moment.
This is not about the wireless support.
Rasplex won’t work on the RasPi3 before Rasplex version 1.0.3 is released.
I suspect that I’ve done something wrong in transferring the files to the SD card. But I don’t know what. When I look again on my Mac ‘Get Info’ says there’s only 79MB used of a capacity of 536MB, and it is formatted FAT16.
I think this is normal. Your card gets “partitioned” with only a small portion remaining DOS-compatible. The rest is formatted with a Linux file system.
That being said, 32 GB seems excessive. 8 GB would’ve sufficed.
Size is not that important for the Pi. Speed is. (speed ‘Class 10’ or higher)
Thank you for that clarification. I shall wait with eager interest for v 1.0.3.
As a matter of curiosity, do you know what is it that stops the older versions from working on the RPi3? I thought it was almost wholly backward compatible with the B+ and Pi2?
FYI, I’m only using a 32GB card because I had one spare, and it saves me having to buy another card.
