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Ahh you guys are the best.

I got everything off of the Umbrel website using the Amazon links they provide, installed and assembled everything as instructed, but I can't connect to Umbrel.local and tried all the suggested http(s) variations and none of them connect... I re-flashed the SD card with no luck. Then I downloaded angry IP to hopefully find the IP address, but it doesn't seem to show up in the scan which makes me think it's offline somehow? All the lights are on - green on flashes intermittently though, and it's connected to the router and a power source so I am PRETTY sure I have eliminated all the dumb/obvious things I could be doing wrong but you never know lol

I'm a total beginner but reasonably smart, I should be able to figure this out haha. I'm on a Mac. Also I have zero budget for other options, I really want to make what I already purchased work 🙈🙈🙈

Does this reply to everyone? I hope so... been gone a while haha #asknostr

Ron Miel 1y ago

Did you manage to fix it already? If not, I would suggest first flashing a stock RaspiOS on the SD card, just to double check all hardware works fine.

Unplug SSD drive (those can be a real pain with a RPi if you don't have a separate power source for it), flash OS and connect to your home network. Then login to your router and set a static IP for the RPi. Reboot RPi and check if new IP is active.

If all this works, try reinstalling Umbrel and see if RPi responds on the new static IP.

PS: if you have two SD cards available you can save yourself some time and have a separate installation one for Umbrel and second one for testing with RaspiOS. You just swap cards and that's it, no reflashing needed. If you have any questions send me a DM...

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emily 1y ago

I didn't!

A stock RaspiOS - Is that Debian?

Also I don't know how to set a static IP a as I can't seem to find the IP in the first place. But maybe first things first... I'll give this a try this afternoon !

Ron Miel 1y ago

Yes, RaspiOS is based off debian and is the default OS that people usually use on a RPi. If you have a monitor, usb keyboard and mouse at hand go for OS "with desktop" option, otherwise try "lite" (headless) version and you can control it from your pc/mac through SSH. Either way connect it to your router with a cable. There's plenty of online tutorials to help you getting it set up.

Usually routers by default assign different IPs to new devices each time the device connects. For your use case it would be better to tell your router that anytime it sees the RPi, it gives it the same (static) IP - so you can be sure where to find it later when Umbrel gets online. Again, google is your friend on how exactly you need to do that - it depends on the router model.

I'm sorry if this seems overly complicated, but if you can't get Umbrel up the easy way, you'll just need to figure out what is causing the problem. You might also try out Citadel/RaspiBlitz/Start9 or something similar to Umbrel first, but chances are you will get just as stuck with those.

emily 1y ago

Got it!! I am currently connected to my router with a cable, the problem with the static IP is that all the directions start by assuming I can find it... looking at angry IP, I have the same number of connections when my pi is plugged in vs unplugged so I'm thinking my problem starts before this 🙁