#1754

A friend built my Fates yesterday and it’s a beauty!

Today I noticed that knob 2 takes about 2.5 minutes after startup to start working.
It won‘t do anything for 2.5 minutes, then it will respond randomly and after another half minute it works fine.

Is this a known issue? Would it be software or hardware related?

#1755

This is an odd issue I’ve never heard of. One easy troubleshooting method with the FATES is to check if you’re getting enough power by using a different power source. Some wall plugs, UBS ports or power banks might not be giving the FATES enough juice and oddities can occur.

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#1756

Are you sure there’s no cold joint ? You (or your friend) should probably reflow the legs of this knob and check continuity with its gpio on the Raspberry Pi (and reflow the raspi header just to be sure) It’s probably a minor issue, I’m pretty sure a quick reflow will solve this in no time :wink: You can post a photo of the PCB if you’re not sure.

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#1757

that’s not right and most likely hardware.

Reflow these connections:

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#1758

Thanks for the quick response!
I will do as advised.

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#1759

sometimes it happens that when my FATES goes to standby, it responds late. when the screen is off after I haven’t used it for a while, I have to press the keys several times to wake it up. I was wondering if it was normal. any help on that?

Thanks

Approaching: norns
#1760

Normal-ish?

I’ve had that happen. Haven’t really worried about it tho.

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#1761

What’s this for? It was in both kits I received, but seems to go nowhere.

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#1762

Potentially to add UART port. But it’s of little use, honestly.

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#1763

Reflowing did the trick!
Thanks!

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#1764

Ok, so in a moment of stupidity, I accidentally updated the firmware via wi-fi using the menu :roll_eyes: haven’t had a chance to use my Fates in a while and forgot that it shouldn’t be done that way.

Well, unsurprisingly it won’t turn on now. Can anyone point to a thread/post detailing what I need to do now? Please bare in mind, I’m an absolute beginner to this.

#1765

You will need to reinstall from the latest disk image
Instructions here: https://github.com/okyeron/fates/blob/master/install/norns/Norns_disk_image_install.md

After this version is loaded you can run the on device UPDATE without worry.

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#1766

Thanks for that. Ive reflashed my card (32gb) and Fates is working again and I’ve reconnected to my Wi-Fi network. However, I now have two problems.

  1. The Maiden Library will not refresh for me, nor can I update the scripts already on Fates

  2. When I try to run an update, I get a message saying my disk is full and I require 400mb. Kind of surprising seeing as it’s a 32gb card.

Any idea what’s going on there?

Edit: I have looked at the card details On my mac and now it’s saying the disk capacity is 264.4m with only 221.9m available. No idea how that happened. Should I reformat the card before putting the image on it again?

#1767

Did you expand the filesystem in raspi-config ?

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#1768

have you tried expanding the filesystem? should do the trick for the second issue, and an update should help with the first :slight_smile:

woop! jinx @Nordseele

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#1769

Hehe :wink:
@Papercutnoise You can do it via command line :

sudo raspi-config --expand-rootfs

Or

sudo raspi-config -> navigate within the menus -> advanced options and reboot when prompted

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#1770

Thanks folks, I had totally overlooked that section.

Hopefully this will be the last beginners question I need to ask, but how do I open up a terminal to the Fates to enter those commands? Bit confused by that terminology and have no idea what program I need to do this.

Thanks again and sorry for the dumb questions!

#1771

From your main computer, find the IP address of Fates (your raspberry pi) using a program like Lanscan.

Then If you’re on a Mac you’ll open the “Terminal” app found in applications/utilities (or cmd + space and type “terminal“) and ssh to your Pi (Fates).

ssh we@192.168.xx.xx
or
ssh we@norns.local

Type the password “sleep”

Once you’re connected (Via ssh) you can send the commands to the Raspberry Pi

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#1772

Thanks! I’ve been able to navigate to the menu but keep getting an error when I try to expand the filesystem.

“There was an error running option A1 Expand Filesystem”

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#1773

I don’t know exactly what this error means, I’m used to set up my headless Raspi manually and then expand the filesystem before I install Norns. Okyeron’s doc (Link posted previously) mention that in case of an error following an “expand fs” you should try

sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

Honestly I don’t know why this is needed and what causes this error (hint ? https://www.chrisnewland.com/resize-raspberry-pi-sd-card-partition-to-fill-32gb-card-from-a-running-raspberry-pi-245)

@okyeron will probably have the answer :wink:

It might be worth starting from scratch again, following the instructions in the exact order as written in the docs. https://github.com/okyeron/fates/blob/master/install/norns/Norns_disk_image_install.md

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