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Raspberry Pi3 **closed**
I received my new card today. Flashed it with balenaEtcher and installed the .bin I downloaded from the meteobridge page. My router won't recognize the raspberry pi. Help
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
This is card I ordered:ATP-AF2GUDI-OEM-Memory-Card-MICROSD-2GB-SLC/
Re: Raspberry Pi3
Did you follow the steps on the Meteobridge Wiki ?.
Initial Connect to a Raspberry Pi with a Meteobridge SD card inserted
When your Raspberry Pi has been equipped with a Meteobridge micro SD card, next thing is to connect to the Meteobridge with your browser and to do configuration steps. In its inital state a Meteobridge is configured in LAN mode as DHCP client, expecting an IP from your router. Therefore, it needs to be connected to your router with an Ethernet cable and it needs your router acting as DHCP server and providing an IP address to the Meteobridge as the router also does for your other devices in your LAN. Good thing with DHCP is that you don't have to assign an IP manually. Bad thing is, that only your router knows the given IP and as the Meteobridge does not have a display to show you the IP. But don't worry, there a various ways to find out the IP of the Meteobridge in your LAN.
When Meteobridge is connected to your LAN it will try to receive a dynamic IP from your DHCP server during boot. Wait until blinking of the red LED has stopped. Now there are different ways to find out which IP your Meteobridge has received.
Findout Meteobridge IP in your LAN
There are acouple of techniques to find out the IP, your DHCP server (mostly your router) has given the Meteobridge.
Lazy Way
When Meteobridge starts it communicates LAN IP and WAN IP to the Internet server, where it loads the application stack from. Therefore you can ask there, what has been the last known LAN IP reported from a Meteobridge sharing the same router and WAN IP with your browsing PC. When Meteobridge and PC are in the same LAN, browsing to this address should tell you the LAN IP to use: MagicIP
IP Signaling
Do a short press on the push button on the top (TL-MR3020, WL-330N3G) or on the side (DIR-505) or a short press of the reset button behind the pinhole at the back of the unit (TL-WR703N, TL-MR3040). When you are using Meteobridge on Raspberry Pi you should connect a USB keyboard wait 10 seconds and press key "0" (zero) for 3 seconds.
Now LED will start signaling the IP.
Meteobridge will signal its IP by pulsing the LED beneath the pressed button (TL-MR3020) or the blue LED on the top of the device (TL-WR703N) or the green LED opposite to the power LED (TL-MR3040) or the power LED (WL-330N3G, Raspberry Pi). Sequence begins with LED going off, then each of the four numbers (delimited by a dot) will be signaled one by one. The dot between the numbers will be signaled by a "H" (LED shines bright). Each number is signaled by blinking digit per digit. Each digit is represented by a "M" (LED shines medium dimmed) repeated as often as the digit tells us. The zero digit is signaled by ten blinks. After having done this for all digits of all numbers of the IP, the end is signaled by LED staying off a while like it started with. When Sequenze is done, the LED is constantly turned on again.
Example: IP 192.168.10.77 Legend: M = LED medium dimmed, H = LED shines bright, _ = LED is dark
Signal: Comment
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M___H 192
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___H 168
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___H 10
___M_M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M___ 77
When Meteobridge is connected via LAN it will signal the LAN IP. To get the WLAN IP signaled in that case, please disconnect ethernet cable from meteobridge's LAN port and start IP signaling again. This time WLAN IP will be signaled.
Alternative Ways to Find-Out IP
If you don't like reading the blinks, you can also use an IP scanner (for example: Advanced IP Scanner) or you can look into the logs of your router that provides IPs via DHCP for clients in the LAN/WLAN.
When a FAT formatted USB stick is connected to the USB port, a file "network.log" is written to the USB stick in addition to the LED blinking. The file will look like this:
Sat Jan 5 00:23:16 UTC 2013
MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
LAN IP: 192.168.123.245
Cloud Simulator for Network Configuration
If Meteobridge client cannot connect to your LAN or your LAN does not provide a DHCP service, large LED will not leave fast-blinking mode. To get network settings fixed, you can define the correct network parameters in a simulator in the Internet, which works as follows.
Please browse to config.meteobridge.com. There you will find a simulation of the Meteobridge web interface. Please select the "Setup Network" tab and configure settings as needed for your specific network situation.
When settings are done, please press "save" and change to "Download" tab which will cause your browser to start downloading a configuration file named "config.tgz".
Please store that file (as is, do not unpack) on a USB stick formatted as FAT32 and start the Meteobridge with the USB stick plugged into the USB port of Meteobridge. When network settings are right, Meteobridge will stop with slow and fast blinking and turn on the LED constantly.
You can now remove the USB stick, it is no longer needed. When you restart this Meteobridge client with the same USB stick inserted, file "config.tgz" on USB stick will not be used again as it has been marked as used for this specific Meteobridge unit. Nevertheless, the stick can still be used to setup networking of other Meteobridge clients. The stick also holds a log file which reports if an update of network settings was applied.
Initial Connect to a Raspberry Pi with a Meteobridge SD card inserted
When your Raspberry Pi has been equipped with a Meteobridge micro SD card, next thing is to connect to the Meteobridge with your browser and to do configuration steps. In its inital state a Meteobridge is configured in LAN mode as DHCP client, expecting an IP from your router. Therefore, it needs to be connected to your router with an Ethernet cable and it needs your router acting as DHCP server and providing an IP address to the Meteobridge as the router also does for your other devices in your LAN. Good thing with DHCP is that you don't have to assign an IP manually. Bad thing is, that only your router knows the given IP and as the Meteobridge does not have a display to show you the IP. But don't worry, there a various ways to find out the IP of the Meteobridge in your LAN.
When Meteobridge is connected to your LAN it will try to receive a dynamic IP from your DHCP server during boot. Wait until blinking of the red LED has stopped. Now there are different ways to find out which IP your Meteobridge has received.
Findout Meteobridge IP in your LAN
There are acouple of techniques to find out the IP, your DHCP server (mostly your router) has given the Meteobridge.
Lazy Way
When Meteobridge starts it communicates LAN IP and WAN IP to the Internet server, where it loads the application stack from. Therefore you can ask there, what has been the last known LAN IP reported from a Meteobridge sharing the same router and WAN IP with your browsing PC. When Meteobridge and PC are in the same LAN, browsing to this address should tell you the LAN IP to use: MagicIP
IP Signaling
Do a short press on the push button on the top (TL-MR3020, WL-330N3G) or on the side (DIR-505) or a short press of the reset button behind the pinhole at the back of the unit (TL-WR703N, TL-MR3040). When you are using Meteobridge on Raspberry Pi you should connect a USB keyboard wait 10 seconds and press key "0" (zero) for 3 seconds.
Now LED will start signaling the IP.
Meteobridge will signal its IP by pulsing the LED beneath the pressed button (TL-MR3020) or the blue LED on the top of the device (TL-WR703N) or the green LED opposite to the power LED (TL-MR3040) or the power LED (WL-330N3G, Raspberry Pi). Sequence begins with LED going off, then each of the four numbers (delimited by a dot) will be signaled one by one. The dot between the numbers will be signaled by a "H" (LED shines bright). Each number is signaled by blinking digit per digit. Each digit is represented by a "M" (LED shines medium dimmed) repeated as often as the digit tells us. The zero digit is signaled by ten blinks. After having done this for all digits of all numbers of the IP, the end is signaled by LED staying off a while like it started with. When Sequenze is done, the LED is constantly turned on again.
Example: IP 192.168.10.77 Legend: M = LED medium dimmed, H = LED shines bright, _ = LED is dark
Signal: Comment
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M___H 192
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___H 168
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___H 10
___M_M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M___ 77
When Meteobridge is connected via LAN it will signal the LAN IP. To get the WLAN IP signaled in that case, please disconnect ethernet cable from meteobridge's LAN port and start IP signaling again. This time WLAN IP will be signaled.
Alternative Ways to Find-Out IP
If you don't like reading the blinks, you can also use an IP scanner (for example: Advanced IP Scanner) or you can look into the logs of your router that provides IPs via DHCP for clients in the LAN/WLAN.
When a FAT formatted USB stick is connected to the USB port, a file "network.log" is written to the USB stick in addition to the LED blinking. The file will look like this:
Sat Jan 5 00:23:16 UTC 2013
MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
LAN IP: 192.168.123.245
Cloud Simulator for Network Configuration
If Meteobridge client cannot connect to your LAN or your LAN does not provide a DHCP service, large LED will not leave fast-blinking mode. To get network settings fixed, you can define the correct network parameters in a simulator in the Internet, which works as follows.
Please browse to config.meteobridge.com. There you will find a simulation of the Meteobridge web interface. Please select the "Setup Network" tab and configure settings as needed for your specific network situation.
When settings are done, please press "save" and change to "Download" tab which will cause your browser to start downloading a configuration file named "config.tgz".
Please store that file (as is, do not unpack) on a USB stick formatted as FAT32 and start the Meteobridge with the USB stick plugged into the USB port of Meteobridge. When network settings are right, Meteobridge will stop with slow and fast blinking and turn on the LED constantly.
You can now remove the USB stick, it is no longer needed. When you restart this Meteobridge client with the same USB stick inserted, file "config.tgz" on USB stick will not be used again as it has been marked as used for this specific Meteobridge unit. Nevertheless, the stick can still be used to setup networking of other Meteobridge clients. The stick also holds a log file which reports if an update of network settings was applied.
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
According to what I read in Metobridge Wiki is, take the SD card using balenaEtcher flash the card and load the http://connect.meteobridge.com/files/me ... 3-v1.3.bin file on the card. The balenaEtcher does all this for me. So those are the steps I followed. And then it tells Having copied the disk image to the card it just needs to insert the card into the Raspberry Pi, connect it with an Ethernet cable to your LAN, and power it up. So those are the steps I have followed. Now with the card flashed, the .bin installed, and the card inserted in the Raspberry PI, ethernet connected to my Netgear switch which is connected to my Netgear Orbi, and power cable connected to the Raspberry PI the Raspberry PI doesn't show up in the list of scanned devices. Now I know the Raspberry PI works because I inserted an SD card with Raspbian installed on the card and my scanner program found the Raspbian operating system. So if I have followed all the steps why doesn't the Metobridge show up on my list of devices? All that shows up in the scanned devices is my Meteobridge installed on a TP-Link. I can't do a thing with Meteobridge until I can get an IP address.
Re: Raspberry Pi3
How does the red LED behave, when you pouwer up the RPI? It schould start with slow blinking and then skip to fast blinking and then steady on.
Re: Raspberry Pi3
Your IP scanner program may only work if the device responds to pings. It is likely the case that the the Pi will not respond to pings with OpenWRT as that is the OS that Meteobridge image uses. A better way to find the IP address is to log into your router and see what the DHCP leased addresses are. Look for the MAC address of the Pi in the router's DHCP lease table. Better yet while you are there in the router's DHCP management you should make an IP address reservation for the Pi so that it always gets the same IP address.
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
I unplugged the power, plugged it back in and it turns immediately. The green light flashes.admin wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:44 pm How does the red LED behave, when you pouwer up the RPI? It schould start with slow blinking and then skip to fast blinking and then steady on.
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
There is no pi in the router settings. I've looked and relook through all attached devices and it's not there. I have reservations set for my camera, Davis WLL, & my Meteobridge but can't set one for the PI because it's not there.galfert wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:08 pm Your IP scanner program may only work if the device responds to pings. It is likely the case that the the Pi will not respond to pings with OpenWRT as that is the OS that Meteobridge image uses. A better way to find the IP address is to log into your router and see what the DHCP leased addresses are. Look for the MAC address of the Pi in the router's DHCP lease table. Better yet while you are there in the router's DHCP management you should make an IP address reservation for the Pi so that it always gets the same IP address.
Re: Raspberry Pi3
I’s probably a silly question, but which model RPi are you using ?.
Re: Raspberry Pi3
If the red LED does not start flashing your SD card setup is invalid. Please be aware that thaere are different images for RPI 4 und 3 models. Other models will not work either.captgadget wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:42 pmI unplugged the power, plugged it back in and it turns immediately. The green light flashes.admin wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:44 pm How does the red LED behave, when you pouwer up the RPI? It schould start with slow blinking and then skip to fast blinking and then steady on.
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
Pi 3 model B not B+BigAlT wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 5:56 pm I’s probably a silly question, but which model RPi are you using ?.
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
I'm using the one for the PI 3admin wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:04 pmIf the red LED does not start flashing your SD card setup is invalid. Please be aware that thaere are different images for RPI 4 und 3 models. Other models will not work either.captgadget wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:42 pmI unplugged the power, plugged it back in and it turns immediately. The green light flashes.admin wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:44 pm How does the red LED behave, when you pouwer up the RPI? It schould start with slow blinking and then skip to fast blinking and then steady on.
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Re: Raspberry Pi3
I just swapped out the Meteobridge card and put in the Raspian card and red light came right on and I know the Raspian card works because I had it running with keyboard and mouse yesterday.admin wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:04 pmIf the red LED does not start flashing your SD card setup is invalid. Please be aware that thaere are different images for RPI 4 und 3 models. Other models will not work either.captgadget wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:42 pmI unplugged the power, plugged it back in and it turns immediately. The green light flashes.admin wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:44 pm How does the red LED behave, when you pouwer up the RPI? It schould start with slow blinking and then skip to fast blinking and then steady on.
Re: Raspberry Pi3
As said before, you simply failed setting up the SD card correctly.
"Flashed it with balenaEtcher and installed the .bin I downloaded from the meteobridge page" sounds very wrong. You have to flash the bin file to the card, nothing else.
Telling again and again that your RPI runs with your Raspian card does not help here
"Flashed it with balenaEtcher and installed the .bin I downloaded from the meteobridge page" sounds very wrong. You have to flash the bin file to the card, nothing else.
Telling again and again that your RPI runs with your Raspian card does not help here
Re: Raspberry Pi3
Does your RPi red LED behave as Boris states it should when first powered up with the Meteobridge microSD Card installed ?. First the red led is blinking slow, then blinking fast and then on solid ?. If not, possibly the bin image Download was corrupted during download or during the flashing process. Try downloading it again and flashing the newly downloaded image to your SD Card with Balena Etcher. You might try copying a Raspbian OS to the micro SD card and see if that will run. It’s possible the microSD Card is defective.