{"id":335,"date":"2015-11-14T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/?p=335"},"modified":"2015-11-14T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T11:00:28","slug":"problem-solving-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/2015\/335","title":{"rendered":"Problem solving the hard way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just testing the splot by x-posting from <a href=\"http:\/\/Http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\">my blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to solve problems with technology<\/p>\n<p>My raspberry pi, was having problems. For a while it had sat on the windowsill happily posting images to tumblr day and night on <a href=\"http:\/\/raspskypi.tumblr.com\">skypi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/broomhillsky.tumblr.com\">broomhill sky\u2019s<\/a>, it served up a <a href=\"http:\/\/pi.johnj.info\">small website<\/a> itself too.<\/p>\n<p>At some point it stopped working. I rebooted the device a few times, turned if off and on again, then left if for another day.<\/p>\n<p>I had a bit of time on my hands on Thursday so decided to story it out. Since the device didn\u2019t seem to be working at all, I could not connect to it via ssh and it was not serving the website I though I\u2019d better just start from a clean install. So this is what I did.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bought a new SD card.<\/li>\n<li>downloaded a new image from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/downloads\/noobs\/\">NOOBS for Raspberry Pi<\/a><\/li>\n<li>wiped the card and copied the files over<\/li>\n<li>moved the pi to the living room and hooked up the to and a keyboard<\/li>\n<li>booted the pi and went through the initial setup<\/li>\n<li>shut down the pi to prepare to move it back to the windowsill where I planned to connect via ssh and redo all the server and script stuff to get it working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At that point, while the pi was still hooked to the tv I though I\u2019d give the old card a final try. Of course it booted up straightaway!<\/p>\n<p>I then took the pi with the old card back into the other room and connected to power and ethernet. Back to the Mac and tried to ssh on. Fail, check the website that sits on the pi, fail.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I took the Ethernet cable out of the powering plug and put it back in again. Everything started working properly.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know how many times I\u2019ve repeated this sort of routine expecting the worst and skipping the obvious. I do hope I\u2019ve learnt my lesson but somehow I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just testing the splot by x-posting from my blog. How to solve problems with technology My raspberry pi, was having problems. For a while it had sat on the windowsill happily posting images to tumblr day and night on skypi and broomhill sky\u2019s, it served up a small website itself too. At some point it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[85,86,51],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd-ideas","category-published","tag-problem-solving","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-technology"],"splot_meta":{"author":"@johnjohnston","license":"by-sa","footer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}