I have a Rasberry pi Zero W that I am trying to run as a cloud hub. I am only connecting to one usb port is my reasoning behind the Pi zero.
I’ve had it it running previously for a few days, now when I switch the the Pi on it shows my wifi (renamed) however on 3 different devices they all do the same thing.
It will read the network, connect but intermittently it drops connection entirely and I have to manually reconnect or have it on auto connect. Still the windows pc’s with the intermittent connection do not show the usb I have plugged in.
I’ve had it show the device once for not even one second but it wouldn’t come up again once re connected
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How are you powering the pi0w? Via a good USB power supply that can power the pi0w and the attached USB device?
I am using a 32-8v buck…
I am using a 32-8v buck converter to micro usb 3v for power, my goal is to have this installed into a racecar to provide a single channel usb port.
Raspberry Pi and coding is all new to me so if you have a better solution to power that would be helpful.
The car has a 16v battery onboard in total loss so I need to go from 16 to 3v as the ecu will draw to much current to keep on to run off a 9v battery or anything similar.
Even with no usb plugged in it is still intermittent with the wifi signal
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It is a mistake to use a pi0w for this because the pi0w wifi is terrible even when it works. I would recommend something like the GL-AR300M16 , much better wifi and cheaper and runs cloudhub
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Does this need anything else or I can treat it the same as I was my PI0?
As in I don’t need a wifi adapter to plug into it
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Treat same way as pi0, does not need any sdcard (its built-in)
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Hi Michael,
My AR300M16 arrived today I am trying to upgrade to cloud hub software through the glinet admin panel but it says Testing the firmware with sysupgrade failed.
Is there anything I am doing wrong? Or need to change
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I think there is a checkbox like "overwrite" or "force" or something like that next to the firmware update button. Check that.
(Dont use the pi0w firmware, remember to download the ar300m16 cloudhub firmware)
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I don’t see anything like that on my windows device or mobile
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Uncheck keep settings/keep installed packages
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I just plugged it into my main router to download luci to upgrade the software seems to have worked now. 3rd light stay flashing red?
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It flashes red while it updates, when it reboots it should have two greens only
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Still has a flashing/solid red even after updating within the cloud hub configuration.
Maybe I did something wrong inside luci, is there anyway for me to go back there
Have a look for the CloudHub…
Have a look for the CloudHub_xxx wifi network and join that while running the virtualhere client
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It works perfectly fine all my devices function, just the red light is my only concern
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OK dont worry about it then.
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Some devices work awesome, my probably highest power draw device won’t complete what I want with it.
It is an ecu it reads files fine but when I go to write it refuses to make it all the way through with this specific ecu.
It worked fine with my pi 0 with this device never giving me this trouble
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It could be a power issue. Can you try one of these https://www.amazon.com.au/Proxima-Direct-3-0-Power-Cord/dp/B088PFCNRH or something similar that has a secondary USB power cable that you can plug into another power supply. E.g a USB powerbank.