Closed allibragi closed 4 years ago
Hi,
Banana Pi is not supported by Power Pi for safe shutdown and status monitoring as it was never tested on it. But I guess this issue can be solved. Nevertheless Power Pi can still power the Banana Pi through the 5V rail of the 40 pin connector if BananaPi supports being powered through the 5V rail. Other wise you'll have to use the USB A output of Power Pi.
Check the ups.service file located at /lib/systemd/system/ups.service. See if the path to python and ups.py after the ExecStart part is correct. Also. check if the username is correct.
After correction, run the following:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable ups.service
sudo systemctl restart ups.service
Hi,
I've found the error in the process, it wasn't t able to find the RPi.GPIO library. I've installed it from the manufacturer repo (http://wiki.lemaker.org/BananaPro/Pi:GPIO_library).
For the powering I'm using a cable through the USB port. I think it could be possible to power it through the pins but i can't find any hint (plus I'm not experienced in this field). If anyone should come through this post and knows how to do it let me know.
Hi, Thank you very much for the feedback. Have you connected the Power Pi to BananaPi as a HAT using the 40 Pin connector? If so, I don't think you need the cable to Power it, just turn the switch on and it should start powering the Banana Pi.
If i connect the Power Pi by the pins and flip the switch the Banana Pi simply don't turn on. The leds on the PowerPi shows that the battery is charging and that the output power is on. If I power the PI normally the process see the HAT and shows the battery time left and that its not charging (obviously).
That means Banana Pi does not support powering it through the 5V pins of the 40 pin connector.
I'll use it by the USB port, is not much a problem. I eventually switch to a PI 4. Thanks for the help.
Hi, I'm trying to setup the powerpi on a Banana PI PRO and, aside that the board is not supported, I'm facing 2 issues:
Powering the Banana from the PowerPi doesn't work, I've checked the power requirements and the Banana is in the range 5 V @ 2 A
The installation went ok, the Banana see the PowerPi and give the "Power Pi configured successfully" message, but the service fail to start. Checking the service status I've this error:
Anyhow the shipping was perfect and I've received the board without any problems. Thank you!