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Did the Beta get pulled. I got my Pi 4 and was hoping to have something to play with.

jn N4NQY

N4NQY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:24 pm Did the Beta get pulled. I got my Pi 4 and was hoping to have something to play with.

jn N4NQY

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N4NQY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:24 pm Did the Beta get pulled. I got my Pi 4 and was hoping to have something to play with.

jn N4NQY

Yes, posting a new one soon - working on a bunch of stuff at once here - wont be too much longer...

MW0MWZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:55 am

N4NQY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:24 pm Did the Beta get pulled. I got my Pi 4 and was hoping to have something to play with.

jn N4NQY

Yes, posting a new one soon - working on a bunch of stuff at once here - wont be too much longer...

Andy, Will we have to burn a new image or will doing an pistar-upgrade work to bring the RC1 up to date

AF4FA wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:23 pm

MW0MWZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:55 am

N4NQY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:24 pm Did the Beta get pulled. I got my Pi 4 and was hoping to have something to play with.

jn N4NQY

Yes, posting a new one soon - working on a bunch of stuff at once here - wont be too much longer...

Andy, Will we have to burn a new image or will doing an pistar-upgrade work to bring the RC1 up to date

Sadly for you guys, its going to be burn a new image, since it looks like only a small number of people managed to get the 4.1 build - once I get one that is behaving we'll roll changes into that one so there wont be too many new image cycles.

Re-released again 4.1.0-RC1 available on the download server...

MW0MWZ wrote:Re-released again 4.1.0-RC1 available on the download server...

Downloaded and installed on all 3 of my pi zeros. Connected to my network fine. Operating with no issues. Thanks

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And I've installed on a couple RPi 3A+ hotspots and one RPi 3B+ hotspot, and it's working great. Exciting!

Thanks for the feedback guys, short of some other huge show-stopping reason to pull the image again - we'll roll with this one now push any more fixes as updates.

While I think about it - for you guys playing along at home this is the issue I ran into:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=230779

The first post has all the information about what was going on, why and how to resolve it... This is already fixed in the current Pi-Star 4.1.0-RC1 download, so you don't need to do this stuff, this is more of an answer to the "So what was the problem" question that is likely to be asked.

so WHY did this affect Pi-Star (since we have no VNC etc) - well we do put the AutoAP up if the WiFi doesnt connect within 2 mins, so what was happening, is the entropy generation would stall - holding up the boot process for long enough for the AutoAP timer to run down and start the local AP, and stopping WiFi from working.

Really not a fun one to figure out, but there it is, if this stops even one of you from tearing your hair out when working on your own images, especially buster based ones - then it was worth posting. I really don't know why/how mine would work and not have the same issue, but this was very touchy about what hardware would play up - different SoCs seem to behave a little different.