Installing V3 on Astrobox

AstroBox Troubleshooting
#1

Any chance I can get instructions on how to ssh into the PCduino and reinstall the V3 update?

Think I fried the current install - I successfully configured the astrobox to connect to my wifi network and then somehow got stuck in the update tab. It stalled for several moments so I disconnected my computer from the astrobox wifi hotspot and connected to my home wifi network. Now when I go to http://astrobox.local it wont load.

I checked the FAQ and it says I won’t be able to see the hotspot anymore because the astrobox is now connected to my home wifi network. So now I can’t connect to the astrobox or see the astrobox working.

Any suggestions or advice is much appreicated,

Thanks,

-Noe

#2

The default password for the ‘ubuntu’ user is ‘astroprint’. However you would need to know the ip of your box in order to ssh into it. Here are several alternative options:

  1. Connect a HDMI monitor and usb keyboard to the box. Type ‘ifconfig’ to find out the ip address of your wlan0 device. Once you know the ip address, use you browser to go to http://.

  2. If you managed to link your AstroBox with your AstroPrint.com account. Simply go to the “Connected” tab when the AstroBox is on. You should see it there and there’s “Launch AstroBox UI”, this will launch your browser to http:// which will show the control interface.

Let us know if this helped you.

#3

Thanks Daniel,

Can’t seem to get an IP from the astrobox. It’s got wlan0 and wlan1 listed with correct mac addresses but no IP is listed. I was able to ping a website, so I know it’s connected to my wifi network.

The box still doesn’t appear in the ‘connected’ tab in the astroprint account webpage. How should I go about getting it connected?

-Noe

#4

It might be using IPv6 address. What do you get as response to the ping? Or do you have a cable plugged in?

#5

Pinged adafruit.com and got

64 bytes from vps3.ladyada.net (207.58.139.247): …

No ethermet cable plugged in.

#6

That’s super odd. You must have a an IPv4 address to resolve that address.

There’s a lot of data on the ifconfig results. Let’s try this:

ifconfig |grep -B1 "inet addr" |awk '{ if ( $1 == "inet" ) { print $2 } else if ( $2 == "Link" ) { printf "%s:" ,$1 } }' |awk -F: '{ print $1 ": " $3 }'
#7

OK Here’s what I got

lo: 127.0.0.1
wlan0: 10.1.10.11

#8

hitting http://10.1.10.11 and http://astrobox.local in browser now loads up the astrobox UI.

Now on to testing some prints!

Thanks for your help Daniel, much appreciated!

-Noe

#9

Great to hear that it worked !