#102

Yep, maiden was the ticket for me as well. Nice to clean that tape folder up a bit!

#103

It works now!

I tried my grid again at home, worked in my modular, but not in norns. i tried everything I could think of with the reset button, every usb port, many reboots no luck. Eventually i unscrewed the bottom and looked around, flipped the disk/run switch … no luck there, until (and i don’t know if its bad or not…) i tried flipping the disk/run switch when norns was ON, and ‘light burst’!! — now it works as expected.

Weird!

Mlr is fun!

#104

this is really interesting and weird. indeed the disk/run lines control the USB hub routing— maybe it needed a rustling? keep in mind i tested all the USB ports before this shipped out— so now i know this is a data point. thank you for your perseverance and discovery of this!

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#105

When there is anupdate to address the WiFi issue (I still haven’t been able to connect to my network) where would it be posted? On github in the Norns folder?

#106

the update should be ready later today— it includes a lot of fixes and changes and there is a small wifi fix but can’t say for sure it’ll fix your setup. are you just getting the “failed” bug? is your router on WPA mode?

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#107

20 characters of WPA2

#108

I’m just glad its working like a charm now! what a great little machine, you can already tell its going to be a classic in ten years time (like everything monome).

Congrats on another great release!

:bird:

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#109

Seem to have gotten my norns into a non-booting state – stuck on the :star2: startup animation every time, no peripherals connected :thinking:

I was in the middle of trying to create a sc engine at the time, quite likely the sc file I just uploaded to norns had some silly errors in it. I rebooted, then got into this state.

Anyone have suggestions how to get back in there?

#110

ah yea - that’s one of the bigger drawbacks at the moment. just pushed some changes to begin addressing it. (now you can continue to use the menu even if sclang fails to compile the class library.)

for now, connect over the serial port and revert your SC changes.

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

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#111

cool got it. thanks for the speedy reply!

edit: I should add for anyone else who has the same problem that this format worked for me:
screen /dev/tty.usb(tab) 115200

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#112

@Heath we’re not sure why wifi is failing for you, there are some UI inconsistencies addressed in next update but nothing major.

  • does hotspot mode work?
  • is the signal weak / have you tried moving close to your router? (you can see -dBm reading on the wifi screen; anything below about -48 is going to be problematic.)
  • @ppqq had some issues with certain authentication settings but i’ve forgotten what they were or what the fix was. iirc it was more granular than just “WPA2”
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#113
  1. Yes, works.
  2. I don’t know. I can’t get it to work we’re it shows the signal strength. It’s about two feet from the router.
  3. I can enter my WiFi network and password, it fails and then 2 out of 3 times crashes to where I needed to reset. I’m now getting password fail errors when the password is (triple checked) correct

Thank you

#114

This is a potentially dumb question, but when connecting to my wifi network and entering the password, is there no way to enter a space on norns?

#115

I get these issues as well. I was able to tty in and run ifconfig. it looks like norns is actually connecting to my wifi but the norns reports it as a failed password not allowing me to use my browser to connect at the norns ip address or norns.local. i am able to get everything to work in hotspot mode.

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#116

right. if your router has anything like a “performance mode” that may be the ticket, since it can bounce incompatible devices. i’d check on that and consider disabling it in favor of “compatibility” mode. possibly not a long-term solution but worth a try. also, be mindful of any potentially interfering firewall settings.

@Galapagoose: @tehn i think mentioned you having similar woes; do you recall what did it?

also, as @adrianf mentions:

it bears repeating that there are false negatives reported by the wifi script. it’s possible that you’re actually connected but don’t know it. if zeroconf works (e.g., your router doesn’t block it), you may just try connecting via a browser at norns.local:5000. failing that, using screen to make a serial connection and see what’s up is your next best bet for debugging. if you’re on mac os, i’m happy to help walk you through that. either here, via pm or on github.

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#117

How long should sync to USB take?

currently at 10-12min and wondering if I should let it keep going.

#118

On average, it’s taken ~5-10 mins for me when I’m syncing around 250mb+ of new tape recordings.

#119

It finished around 15min, but I did have some long Tape files.

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#120

While not the most convenient if you have maiden open while the sync in performed you will see the file paths go by in the REPL as it works.

Ideally there would be similar progress/output to the display as well.

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#121

Nice! thanks for the maiden tip :slight_smile: