Crashes when "Waiting for next WSPR transmissoin window".

orsty3001 commented 7 years ago

Crashes when I try to start wspr on a raspberry pi 1. The only way to recover is unplugg the device and plug it back in.

JimNtexas commented 4 years ago

I had this issue. When I initially set up my TAPR/wspr system I was using a good sized usb battery power supply. Once I got it working, I move the transmitter to a more permanent location and plugged it in to an Apple 110v usb converter, a small one.

Then I got the crash after 'Waiting for next wspr....'.

After futzing around I switched back to battery power and it worked! I replaced the little Apple usb power wart with a 2 amp power wart, and it is working again!

zinkwazi commented 2 years ago

Hi All, I would really like to get this working on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for a low power mobile WSPR rig but still experiencing the crashing issues mentioned by many above.

I am testing with the updated version from threeme3 as well as the latest from @JamesP6000.

Using @JamesP6000 version, the pi zero hard crashes immediately when the wspr executable is called.
Using threeme3's version If I use makefile1 then the pi zero crashes immediately and requires a hard reboot and if I use makefile2, wspr starts but doesn't transmit and just sits at the "TX started at:" message.

I have two pi zero w that I am happy to donate to @threeme3 or @JamesP6000 or someone who has the know-how to work on this.

I have done the following troubleshooting steps:

Disabled wifi, bluetooth and HDMI
PiFmRds compiles and works fine
Tried battery power and high quality 2A USB power
Same issue occur when low pass TAPR filter hat is not present
I have successfully used headless rpi v3 and v4 with the TAPR hat on backpacking trips using GPS for accurate time

I am also happy to try other suggestions or code edits and test remotely if anyone has any good ideas.

thanks,

Greg

edegraaff commented 5 months ago

Hi, my zero also crashes directly, strange cant figure out why

edegraaff commented 5 months ago

Hi, my zero also crashes directly, strange cant figure out why

Well, found a workarround, connect keyboard and monitor, and the system is stable, why? no clue at all but it works.

zinkwazi commented 2 months ago

SOLVED: Raspberry Pi Zero crashing successfully solved by adding an HDMI dummy load adapter. https://github.com/zinkwazi/wspr-zero

Thanks for all the suggestions above, very rewarding to find a workaround so that I can use the pi zero for mobile WSPR!

JamesP6000 / WsprryPi

Crashes when "Waiting for next WSPR transmissoin window". #6