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xorbit / LiFePO4wered-Pi

Access library, command line tool and daemon for the LiFePO4wered/Pi module
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LiFePO4wered/Pi+ device will not power up #65

Closed twadam closed 7 months ago

twadam commented 7 months ago

After starting with a base Raspberry Pi OS, I followed the GitHub instructions on the code screen to download and install the software. I have made no changes to any default settings. After physically installing the LiFePO4wered/Pi+ header with 18650 battery, and only powering the LiFePO4wered device (not the PI) , it seems pushing the physical button for 2 seconds does not do anything. The battery does have 3.4 volts. Did I do something wrong or miss a step somewhere ?

twadam commented 7 months ago

I'm an idiot, nevermind. I 'think' what I might have done was blindly followed the install instructions including the "make all USE_SYSTEMD=0", which I believe essentially eliminates the daemon.

At any rate I removed the battery for 10 minutes and removed the entire LiFePO4wered-Pi directory and walked through the GIT instructions again. This time omitting the 'make all USE_SYSTEMD=0' step. End result, it powered up perfectly after holding the button for 2 seconds! Now it's time to play around :-)

xorbit commented 7 months ago

Hi I'm glad this was one of those issues that solved itself! 🙂 The daemon needs to be running for the device to work correctly, but you'll know for sure that this is the case if the system successfully runs for more than 5 min since the boot timeout would kick in and turn power off if the daemon wasn't running.