[arm-allstar] Node locks up upon loss of WiFi

Sat Mar 17 12:44:26 EST 2018

Chris,

  We have not been able to duplicate your issue and no one else has
complained of this problem. There is no connection between the wifi or
ethernet being connected and the USB heartbeat speed or any of the other
issues you mentioned. Allstar can be and is run without internet
connectivity as a repeater controller. Perhaps you have changed something
in the configuration to cause this but unless we knew the changes you have
made we would not know how to duplicate it.  Many people run hotspots and
use wireless and as far as I know this has not happened.

Keep in mind you CANNOT use wireless and wired simultaneously. Doing so
will not cause the problem you are seeing but will cause routing and
connectibliity issues. If you plug in wired you need to go into the
wireless setup and turn off wireless especially if there is the possibility
of the wireless connecting to a nearby hotspot you have turned on.

Try clearing your wireless, deleting the wpa_supplicant file,  and just
adding in the one hotspot.

If that doesn't work I would suggest you burn a new SD card and just do the
simple setup and do the wireless setup and see if you experience the same
problem before you make other changes.

*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:14 PM, "chris novara via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Doug,
> I didn’t know the Pi had a heart beat light
>
> The usb radioless heatbeat light slows to half speed and and nothing
> works. If I turn the WiFi back on, and if it chooses to recover then the
> heatbeat light flashes faster at normal speed and everything works again.
>
> Most of the time, the node locks up and requires a reboot. I also checked
> this with a DMK uri using a separate node and Pi and the same thing happens
>
> Ideas on  how to make this work so we can make this work?
>
> Chris Novara
> Phone: 541-778-1175
> Eugene, Oregon
> Email-Chris at redcrosscommunications.org
>
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> >   1. Node locks up upon loss of WiFi or eth (chris novara)
> >   2. Re: Node locks up upon loss of WiFi or eth (Doug Crompton)
> >   3. Radio less Hub hamvoip allmon2 edit locatio (Don Sandin)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:33:50 -0700
> > From: chris novara <chris at redcrosscommunications.org>
> > To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > Subject: [arm-allstar] Node locks up upon loss of WiFi or eth
> > Message-ID:
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> > First, thanks for all your help Doug!
> >
> > Your LED scrip works great!
> >
> > The problem I?m running into is that when running the Pi wireless to my
> hotspot, if I down (turn off) my hotspot the Pi will basically lock up and
> the heart beat light will flash at half speed and the node does nothing and
> no CT beep.
> >
> > It?s like the node goes stupid when I kill the wireless connection. This
> is also the same for the eth port.
> >
> > Basically what I?m trying to do is make the node automatically recover
> and reconnect when Wi-Fi becomes available again to simulate mobile and
> driving through a location where there is no connectivity or walking away
> from the Pi with your phone and then returning to the car and have things
> connect apon detection of WiFi
> >
> > Chris Novara
> > Phone: 541-778-1175
> > Eugene, Oregon
> > Email-Chris at redcrosscommunications.org
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:22:43 -0400
> > From: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> > To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> > Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Node locks up upon loss of WiFi or eth
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> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > Glad to hear the script worked well for you. On the other issue, do you
> > mean the Pi heartbeat or the USB FOB heartbeat?
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:33 PM, "chris novara via arm-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> >> First, thanks for all your help Doug!
> >>
> >> Your LED scrip works great!
> >>
> >> The problem I?m running into is that when running the Pi wireless to my
> >> hotspot, if I down (turn off) my hotspot the Pi will basically lock up
> and
> >> the heart beat light will flash at half speed and the node does nothing
> and
> >> no CT beep.
> >>
> >> It?s like the node goes stupid when I kill the wireless connection. This
> >> is also the same for the eth port.
> >>
> >> Basically what I?m trying to do is make the node automatically recover
> and
> >> reconnect when Wi-Fi becomes available again to simulate mobile and
> driving
> >> through a location where there is no connectivity or walking away from
> the
> >> Pi with your phone and then returning to the car and have things connect
> >> apon detection of WiFi
> >>
> >> Chris Novara
> >> Phone: 541-778-1175
> >> Eugene, Oregon
> >> Email-Chris at redcrosscommunications.org
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> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:22:10 -0500
> > From: Don Sandin <dwsgjs at gmail.com>
> > To: "arm-allstar at hamvoip.org" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> > Subject: [arm-allstar] Radio less Hub hamvoip allmon2 edit locatio
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> >
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> > Hi to all in this great group ! I am trying to set up my node as a
> radioless Hub. I would like to know how to change this in the display
> Status for ( Callsign) ?? Node? ( Node number)? to display on the line next
> to the right of callsign? under description to {Radio less node}.
> > I have searched groups & web & no hits on this. I have seen where others
> have made? custom changes to this description.? 73s to one all Don
> >
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