Re: Pi 0 board not initialized
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 2:56 pm
In my experience -- somewhat limited -- if there is a wired ethernet connection, the WiFi will not be used. It confused me for some time when I set up my DVMega/R-Pi 3B -- I had a wired connection, kept adding the WiFi information in the control panel (even tried with my cell phone set to access point mode) and never got it to show up on WiFi. Finally, for some reason, I pulled the wired connection and rebooted -- and it's been happy ever since on WiFi. This is, true, different from the behavior of my other 3B running as a web server (with Raspbian Stretch) where both wired and WiFi come up; I had to manually take the latter down as I wanted only ethernet for that.
Addendum: the PI Zero W antenna is a triangle etched into the circuit board https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-ze ... na-design/ (and it looks like the 3B+ has a similar design off to the left of the chip with Raspberry logo, as does the 4B)
What antenna? The antenna on the JumboSpot board is for (most likely 70cm, though could be 2m) Amateur transmissions. Unless you've soldered something to the underside of the R-Pi 3B, the WiFi antenna is that silver brick on the edge of the board https://makezine.com/2016/02/28/meet-th ... erry-pi-3/I have swapped the antenna without without any change. The Jumbo spot knows when I press the transmitter button, but it assigns a network IP address of 192.168.50.1, which is not available on my network. Assignable IP address range is 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.50. When I press the talk button on the radio, the pistar displays, on the OLED, the correct information except IP address, and doesn't send out anything?
To my knowledge the radio board mounted on an R-Pi does not have an IP address, and doesn't care about IP data. It just translates between digital RF and binary packets passed to the R-Pi. The R-Pi only is responsible for IP traffic.
192.168.50.1 is the Pi-Star "Auto AP" address (associated with "pi-star-setup" access point). That implies that whatever you have configured is NOT valid, the unit is timing out trying to connect to it, and reverts to access point mode to allow you, on a computer, to connect to it (if your computer is using WiFi to the router, you have to disconnect that and connect to the access point -- which means no internet -- for configuration).