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make sure all cables are plugged in securely. yoink the power cord out. plug it back in. wait a minute. see if a new IP address shows up on your router dashboard.

verify the cable and port work in the new router. do you have a laptop or desktop you could plug in to verify that it's working and getting internet access?

im really guessing it's one of the above and nothing is actually wrong with the raspberry pi.

alanajoy 2y ago

But I thought unplugging the power cord was what caused this in the first place? This is what happens every time I try to fix this, I spend several hours getting nowhere and then get tired and give up. Everything is plugged in properly, I just tried a different ethernet port. I’ll wait a few minutes and then give up again. 🙏 thanks for trying to help, I’m just really frustrated… I haven’t been able to get my node to work for months because it simply won’t connect. It’s very possible that I am missing something really simple and stupid but I don’t think so.

I appreciate you Derek!!

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Derek Ross 2y ago

Pulling the power cord can cause SD card corruption but it's also inevitable for Raspberry Pi/Umbrel.

What lights are flashing or solid on the front of your Pi? Red is power. Green blips flashing is activity. If you have no green, it's probably a bad SD card.

If SD cards are cheap and it's a 5 minute reflash to fix it

alanajoy 2y ago

I have red AND green so that’s good news right??

Derek Ross 2y ago

Is the green flashing irregular or does it have a pattern? If it's random or irregular then that's good, it's showing activity. If it's flashing in a pattern of 3, 4, 5 etc. Then it means something is corrupt on the SD.

alanajoy 2y ago

OK I am going to try one last thing at this point which is to re-flash. I have asked several times but no one has actually answered, so I would appreciate if I could just find out… do I delete everything on the sd before I reinstall everything?

80f48f5e... 2y ago

Don't use Pis. Get a refurbished PC from Amazon. Much cheaper and more powerful . I wasted years on Pi's......waste of time and slow for any real thing

alanajoy 2y ago

I hear you, but I also already have all of this stuff and it’s all been working fine for me until I moved. If I end up starting over, that’s probably the route I will take but I’m trying to work with what I already bought and have been using at this point. 🙏

80f48f5e... 2y ago

Time is money. Refurbished Desktops are the way. Only trying to help from years of nonsense =)

alanajoy 2y ago

You aren’t wrong but for todayyyyy - here I am lol

Derek Ross 2y ago

Reflashing will overwrite everything. https://www.balena.io/etcher

alanajoy 2y ago

Ok. This is what I used last time. Trying that then I quit! UNTIL NEXT TIME I’M NOT A QUITTER I’M JUST TIRED lol 🫶

alanajoy 2y ago

Ok. Hit my wall. I reflashed, here’s my startup after plugging in. I was optimistic, but it has stayed on red ever since… So I have spent several hours to achieve pretty much nothing. Although, does this confirm that it’s probably the SD? Because if so, I’ll stop somewhere tomorrow and get another one. FML https://alanajoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2171.mov

Derek Ross 2y ago

that looks like it booted up fine. do you have lights on the back of your pi where you plug the ethernet cable in? you should have a solid orange light and a flashing green light.

alanajoy 2y ago

I’m outside hitting a joint rn because metal health lol will report back in 5 ps you are my hero regardless

alanajoy 2y ago

Only a blue light 🤡🤪

alanajoy 2y ago

OK, no, ignore that I was not looking at the right thing, and I am now lit, on the other side there is a green light and an orange light

Derek Ross 2y ago

is the green one flashing? if it is, that means there's network activity.

im going to go to bed...sorry. super tired.

i can help tomorrow. we can do phone or nests or whatever if you still need help.

alanajoy 2y ago

I’ll reach out tomorrow, get your rest you put in overtime and it matters thank you 🙏 https://alanajoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2172.mov

Enki 2y ago

looks like your getting network traffic.

was it reachable after a few minutes?

Homer Hodl 2y ago

Get a Nest you two 😂 https://nostrnests.com/

Jer 2y ago

I’ve been dealing with my node for a minute. It doesn’t boot. Plugging it into the hdmi to see the boot process I get “Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.” I reflashed the damn software multiple times and with different OS to see and it’s the same.