#1442

This is likely discussed a few times up thread.

There’s no significant difference for norns.

ORAC (or pd with organelle norns mother) may use more processor, but I don’t know.

Pi3b+ and pi4 (1GB) are same price. Get whichever you feel might be better if you eventually want to use it for something else?

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#1443

Just attempted to update, and the FATES menu says that I’m fully up to date. Is there a bit of a lag between availability of versions?

#1444

That would seem like an inevitable by-product of maintaining a fork.

#1445

Figured that might be the case, but with these threads its often a good call to get all questions out there for any other intrepid soul who might come after

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#1446

I’m working on it now, but I misplaced my notes and need to remember all the steps. :crazy_face:

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#1447

Pi4 (2Gb) now cost the same as pi4 (1gb) version!!

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#1448

I bought a Fates with a loose power socket (usb c), but otherwise working great. Hasn’t been a huge issue, but not ideal when it switches off in the middle of a session because I bump into the cable!

I was thinking of reflowing it to see if that helps. I just wanted to check here if there is anything to be especially careful with when opening/soldering, as I am totally unfamiliar with this build :slight_smile: Grateful for any advice!

#1449

Was this a board purchased from me, or done by a third-party?

See the Build Guide for info and some pictures of the USB-C jack and soldering.

Seems odd to me that the jack would be loose unless it was poorly soldered to begin with. Pictures would probably be helpful.

#1450

Not sure as I haven’t opened the case yet - just realised my toolbox isn’t here in quarantine with me. So I will report back later :sweat_smile:

#1451

Update 200323

(If you are currently running 200218)
use SYSTEM > UPDATE while connected to the internet.

If you are on a version prior to 200218, DO NOT USE SYSTEM > UPDATE.
You must update manually via SSH. Instructions are on the release page: https://github.com/fates-project/norns/releases/tag/2.3.0

See the norns update 200323 page for discussion, but ask questions here if you think something is Fates specific.

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#1452

I just came here looking for this. Thanks!

#1453

if this bricked my fates, i can just re-flash the sd card right? i was on the most recent update, not sure why this happened but i probably shouldn’t have risked doing system>update anyway

*the answer is yes, but now that we’re on the subject what’s the best way to back this thing up, including orac and norns mother? i think the only thing i have saved on my laptop is the dust folder, which hopefully has most of my recent presets

Norns: update 200323
#1454

Hey - I asked the mods to move this to the Fates thread to keep support over here.

Can you give me a rundown of what you did? (with as much detail as possible)

What version were you previously running? What disk image did you flash from? Did you update after that?

on Backups - The dust folder is mostly what you’d need to backup for norns. For ORAC, there’s other stuff, but that’s probably questions for the Sidekick/Orac thread or the norns mother threads (since they are all a bit different)

#1455

it’s fine, i re-flashed the sd card from fates-pi4b-20200106 and reinstalled most everything. i had a pretty recent Dust backup.

I was on 200218, i went to System>Update and it went through the update process (i dont remember exactly what that consisted of), then prompted to shut down. It stayed on the blank screen with the text “shut down” for about 2 minutes, so I powered off (this may have been my error) by flipping the power switch on my power cable. When i powered on, nothing happened. I got the red light but nothing else. I was able to re-format with Balenaetcher. After that, I did the manual update to 200323 and that seems to have worked

Why am i missing Timber and Decimator now? Any script that uses these is failing to load. I backed everything up from my old dust folder with cyberduck.

-tried deleting those and installing from Maiden, now i’m getting a “Duplicate Engines” Error and none of the scripts will load now. I guess i’ll try re-installing again tomorrow

#1456

Just updated worked perfectly. Thank you so much.

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#1457

SYSTEM > UPDATE worked perfctly. Thank you!

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#1458

hmm still can’t get OTIS to work on this version

#1459

Check in on the OTIS thread?

Errors? Is Maiden telling you anything? Need more details to be able to help.

#1460

Updated from 200218 using the update in the drop down. Everything went as expected but I’m standing still on the shutting down… screen. It’s been there for about 5 minutes. Does it power off on its own or are we safe to power off on this screen?

#1461

Power off should be safe… lemme check the script…

last steps are

    print("shutting down.")
    m.message = "shutting down."
    _menu.redraw()
    os.execute("sleep 0.5; sudo shutdown now")

So that should be a graceful shutdown. Depends on which pi you have if the screen will blank or not.

You could verify if its still running by trying to SSH (or see if the connection drops if you’re already ssh’d in)

but yeah - should be fine to pull power and restart.