Install stopping at Network Install on Pi5

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Hi all, im really sorry but this is probably noob 101 type question but I guess trhe onkly stupid question is the one you dont ask!

To give you some back story, I work with generators and wanted a budget friendly current data logger to see what loads were doing. A friend built me one using a PI3 but as I work remotely it was getting a pain to have to reset the time manually and ment I had to set it up and couldnt leave it with colleagues. Along comes the PI5 with its RTC option and I thought great, this suits me perfectly, Not realinsing that emon doest really play nicely with PI5’s from the pre built image.

I have managed the manual route, installing Rasberry OS then, SSH into the PI and running the installer script, All seems to go well but it stops at ‘Network Install’. Thats as far as it goes. Script stops and tells me the script output is logged.

Any help? It woudl be nice to see this working if I can!

Thanks!

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Hi @Dickyc1981 - welcome.

Yes, the problem is you have not used the pi user and some aspects of the scripts assume you are.

It is a historical problem and not quickly fixed.

Sorry, but you will need to start from scratch with the user pi for the scripts to work.

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Ah ok, so my user name needs to be Pi, Makes sense! I will try again!

Thanks so much!

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We do think there are some other issues with the build scripts re PHP versions etc so it isn’t guaranteed to work I’m afraid.

It will be useful to know how you get on.

Cheers

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Same place im afraid!

Thanks for the suggestion though.

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Can you paste the log? (use Ctl-E to format the text)

I suspect that on the latest PiOS has changed the Network stuff too much for the scripts to be backward compatible now @glyn.hudson @TrystanLea

Depending on what you need, there is an emoncms docker by @alexandrecuer available. If you need emonhub then you should be able to install that on the Pi and then use the emoncms Docker for the data visualisation.

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Its saying the log is too long and as im a new user I cant add a text document to the post.

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I guess I could find an older version of PiOS and give that a whirl? Nothing ventured……

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The PiOS flasher still offers Bookworm. There were previous issues with the 64bit version so 32bit is the safest to try.

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I was just thinking of the last bit where it fails.

I’ve bumped your trust level :slight_smile:

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Silly question…

Did you use Pi, or pi, for the username?

To Linux, Pi with an upper case P, is not the same as pi with a lower case p.

As Brian said, you need to use pi, not Pi.

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