Pi Zero W not on dashboard

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I’m trying to set up a bluetooth AV receiver with my Pi Zero W. I’ve downloaded the relevant OS, burnt it to SD card and booted the pi. I’ve plugged a monitor in and it says “Booted - check your Balenacloud dashboard”. However, I can’t find it on the dashboard, and it says “you don’t have any devices yet”. What else do I need to do?

If it’s relevant - I’m not using a router but my mobile phone’s hotspot.

Thanks!

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OK just went and looked - while making this post the screen has changed to this

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HI there,
can you confirm that when adding a new device from the balenacloud dashboard you selected Wifi + Ethernet and supplied the same SSID and Passphrase configured on your mobile Hotspot?
thanks!

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Hi Juan,
Thanks for the reply. Yes that’s exactly what I did. I double checked the name And password before completing. There’s no issue with a space in the hotspot name though is there - for example “Harry’s iPhone”?

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Hi, can you provision a development image and also have the serial connection setup so that you can login over the serial connection and check the openvpn logs?

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Sorry you going to have to walk me through this a bit floion…

[quote=“floion, post:9, topic:178233”]
provision a development image
[/quote] I did select development version when downloading the OS - is that what you mean?

[quote=“floion, post:9, topic:178233”]
login over the serial connection and check the openvpn logs?
[/quote] how do I do this?

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Hi Harry

  • Do you have USB to serial cable? This will allow you to open a shell to the device using another machine (laptop, PC, or whatever with a USB port and PuTTy like application). This will give you access to the device.
  • Production images don’t have this feature by default. If you are using the development version already - you don’t have to do anything else.
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No, I don’t have a serial to USB cable. Also my laptop is an 2011 MacBook Pro. Where would
I plug this in?

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Hi Harry

  • You’d connect to your USB cable. But since you don’t have that cable, I don’t think that approach is of much use.
  • If you can borrow a cable, it would be great. Usually these are quite cheap. If not - I suggest trying out downloading an image for a different network just to rule out any issues on the router end (although that will be very unlikely)
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What do you mean “download an
Image for a a different network”? If you mean for a different wifi network - I only have the one - my mobile phone hotspot…

Is there no way I can fault find using the command line and a keyboard direct into the raspberry pi?