Can someone explain the steps that are necessary to get things up and running via Ethernet? I’ve checked out the forms but I’m still having trouble.
Thanks
Do you have wifi at all. It is easier if you have it to set up on wifi then migrate to ethernet.
What I did was to get the Pi eth0 hardware MACC address (requires booting with a kb/mouse/monitor) using the terminal cmd ‘ifconfig’. Then i set my router to give that hardware address the IP I wanted the astrobox to have.
Then just reboot. You can now access the pi/astrobox at the address you specified in the router and set it up as normal from a web browser or even ssh to it.
Sorry It has been awhile and i cant give step by step without sitting at the machine.
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Thanks,
So DHCP is set up and I can see that my astrobox is connected to the internet via my router settings. When I go to its IP address on my desktop I get a message saying its still booting… But its finsihed booting and I have logged into it. Also I changed the network manager to manual by editing /etc/astrobox/config.yaml:
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you might try to clear browser cache, obvious I know, but sometimes things get stuck.
It does take some time for the astrobox server to come up but no more than a few minutes.
If after a few minutes you still see the message and you have refreshed the screen then it seems like something went wrong in the astrobox.
One reason I leave the astrobox as a DHCP basically the default config and not modify its config is that I don’t want to have to reconfig if I re-flash the card…which I have had to do a couple times…leaving stock means not having to do anything to get a new image going.
I have seen this situation before…often a reboot of the astrobox fixes it…sometimes I reflash the image if it just won’t start. My belief is there are conditions (like a corrupted pref file or something that the astrobox server can’t deal with.) If you see the still booting message even after a couple minutes that means at least the browser is talking to the astrobox server app but for some reason that app can’t complete its startup. I would check out /var/log/astrobox/astrobox.log and see if there is anything weird there. Also if you have a camera or any other USB things connected including the printer you might want to try rebooting without any of that. After that I’d say you need one of the real Astrobox techs that monitor the forum to help you out they will probably request the logs.
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If u need static local IP (for NAT purposes e.g.), is better make DHCP reservation in your router device… but if u need only permanent easy acces in you LAN and you have dynamic IP, you can acces Astro with your FQDN.
“Still booting” is in most of my cases bad browser cache…