Though I believe I’m not a noob to Linux, Docker, or even the Resin Dashboard (that was what it was called the last time I played with it) I’m stumped on trying to get the “Make a web frame with raspberry pi in 30 minutes” project to work.
I think I’ve gotten far enough that I’ve deployed the base balenaDash container to the RPI. But the container only shows a status of “Exited” and no logs appear if I start/restart it. Alas, the blog (https://www.balena.io/blog/make-a-web-frame-with-raspberry-pi-in-30-minutes/) is really light on details if/when things don’t go exactly as planned.
I’m using a REALLY old RPI (version 1, methinks). Could that be the issue?
Quick update. I happened to have an RPI 3B+ too. I created a new Application in BalenaCloud, pushed the balenaDash to this device, increated GPU Memory, rebooted, created my own customer URL and it all worked!
Hi, could you tell us what exact Pi1 model are you using? There should be some version information printed on the device top. We should be supporting all Pi1 versions (in a Raspberry Pi 1 application) just fine. And have a lot of old hardware to test things out if there’s some info from you
It seems like there hasnt been any other documentation on this project for some time. I stumbled upon this after having messed around with Dakboard on my Raspi2. I read and watched the documentation and video but I am having issues with installing the CLI tools on my systems. I have tried 3 different systems ( 2 BASH on Windows and 1 Ubuntu system and I keep getting the following errors:
npm ERR! ext2fs@1.0.27 install: prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the ext2fs@1.0.27 install script ‘prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild’.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the ext2fs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs ext2fs
npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls ext2fs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /mnt/c/Users/CondeFam/npm-debug.log
Can anyone let me know if something is wrong with the CLI tool install?
I see this is your first post, welcome to the forums In the future can I ask you to please open up a new thread if your issue does not match the post title (in this case the problem would be related to the CLI rather than the balenaDash project) it just makes it easier for us to track what is working, and what has issues we need to look into. Thanks.
Anyway, the CLI requires a node version > 6 (alongside a couple more requirements you can read here). Try updating to a newer version of Node and let us know if it solved the problem.
@nazrhom Thank you for your guidance and I will definitely keep that in mind when posting. I was able to figure out my issue by actually installing the CLI tools via the links rather than via NPM. In order to see my device online though, I actually had to hard-wire it as for some reason my credentials for my wifi were not working (even though i was typing them correctly). I did see a solution for this so i will try it.
@chrisys I’ve been trying to get my device to work with my wifi. I am using an RPI2 with a usb wifi. I have checked the /etc/NetworkManager/System-Connections/resin-wifi-01 file and it has my SSID and correct PAK. The only way i was able to get the device online was to hard-wire it. Doing “iwconfig” shows below:
resin-dns no wireless extensions.
br-8bdbcfbc9d1a no wireless extensions.
balena0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
veth75a445e no wireless extensions.
But when doing an “lsusb” you can see the device is there.
root@46eedd4:/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Do you have any other dongles you could try in order to figure out if this is the issue? It should “just work”
You could also try lsmod to list the loaded modules and see if there is one there for your dongle, and maybe lshw as well to see if your dongle has a driver.
I use the same wifi usb adapter. It is listet in balena os with raspberry pi 3 and can also connect to wifi. but ap ist not starting. (network manager claims no ap support but the adapter does have)
