Modes disabled after a minute or so of booting

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xe2bss
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Modes disabled after a minute or so of booting

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I had a Pi4 running the beta version of Pi-star for quite some time, the Pi4 was inside a 2U enclosure and had a
Nextion display, during the several weeks that we had that setup on a UHF repeater it worked flawlessly.
Due to rack space limitations on the repeater site I had to change the 2U encloure for a 1U box so got rid of the
Nextion and instead I installed a 1.3" Oled display.

After putting all the parts together the repeater works for a very short period of time (a minute or two)
and then on the Pi-Star Dashboard "Modes Enabled" both DMR and D-STAR modes turn red and stay like that
for a long time until it changes to green again for a few minutes and the cycle repeats, on the "Network status"
D-star is green while DMR is red. Most of the time the repeater is useless.

If I reboot Pi-Star then both "Modes Enable" indicators for DMR and D-Star show up green (after reboot finishes)
stay like that for a minute and automatically both go the red and of course the repeater does not work.

What have I done to find out what may be the cause of this issue?

1.- Burnt the latest image of Pi-Star for Pi4 on a new microSD card and replace the old one(same issue)
2.- Replaced the Pi4 for a new one (same issue)
3.- Replaced the STM32-DVM pi-hat with a new one (same issue)
4.- In the admin settings of Pi-Star selected "none" for display instead of Oled 6 (same issue)

From the Pi-Star logs:
M: 2020-04-26 16:42:34.113 Closing the MMDVM
I: 2020-04-26 16:42:34.323 Stopped the DMR Id lookup reload thread
M: 2020-04-26 16:42:34.323 Closing D-Star network connection
M: 2020-04-26 16:42:34.323 DMR, Closing DMR Network
I: 2020-04-26 16:42:34.324 MMDVMHost-20200326_Pi-Star-v4 exited on receipt of SIGTERM

After a reboot and once both modes are "enabled" or green and while the Pi-star log window is open, I push the PTT of my radioa couple of times
and get the repeater not found message while the log shows this:

: 2020-04-26 17:01:47.509 Downlink Activate received from N2IX
M: 2020-04-26 17:02:01.528 Downlink Activate received from N2IX
M: 2020-04-26 17:02:18.860 Closing the MMDVM
I: 2020-04-26 17:02:19.721 Stopped the DMR Id lookup reload thread
M: 2020-04-26 17:02:19.722 Closing D-Star network connection
M: 2020-04-26 17:02:19.722 DMR, Closing DMR Network
I: 2020-04-26 17:02:19.722 MMDVMHost-20200326_Pi-Star-v4 exited on receipt of SIGTERM


What can be the problem and how to solve it?

Thanks in advance
Alex N2IX
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w7efs
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Re: Modes disabled after a minute or so of booting

Post by w7efs »

Your log entries show the failure, but not what led to it. Examine the prior entries please.
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