Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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W3BAX
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Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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Bought this last spring from HRO and returned it to them when it would'nt work. Multiple issues. They put a new card in and it worked once. Then quit.
It was in the drawer since then. Yesterday I tried it and now it's stuck in "Initializing" state. Saw another post regarding this but was not clear on the final outcome (if any) on the issue.
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Re: Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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Usually youll see Initialising when the setup is trying to connect to a home network. Without a net connection the services wont start up.

Log into ur router and check if it sees the hotspot connected.

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Re: Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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My zumspot elite 3.5 is doing the same thing, stuck on initializing. I am plugged into the network, it is pingable. it gets IP from dhcp server, Ip is not there when powered off and it responds to pings once it starts initializing. I have flashed a new sd card with the Raspberry Pi imager.v1.8.5 It still hangs on initializing. Is there anything else that I can try to get this working again?
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Try swapping to the legacy branch (instructions here: viewtopic.php?t=4806) and see if that gets it going again.
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Re: Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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Can't ssh as it isn't initialized. Is there a way to edit the sd card and fix this?

home:~$ nmap 192.168.0.49
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-02-01 08:04 PST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.49
Host is up (0.00047s latency).
All 1000 scanned ports on 192.168.0.49 are closed
MAC Address: E4:5F:01:E0:F6:1B (Raspberry Pi Trading)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.24 seconds
home:~$
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Re: Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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I put a new sd card in the zumspot, rebooted with monitor and keyboard and mouse connected. This let me install the latest image for my pi-star and this fixed it. once the lates was installed I resotred my last config backup.
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Re: Zumspot 3.5 Elite not "initializing"

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so the zumpsot is working for transmitting and receiving but the display continues to show initializing if someone isn't talking.
Any hints on where to look to fix this issue?
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I suspect that there are a couple of files missing (that I don't provide). So I will be working to improve the NextionDriver install as part of the Pi-Star image - that should get it going again. Maybe I'll get to that this weekend.
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