As a new user I am seeking help getting my USB drive to work. I have read all the threads about using a 1GB NEW drive and are doing that. Vera reports:
Start installing required kernel modules and apps. Please wait…
SUCCESS
Start loading required kernel modules and apps. Please wait…
SUCCESS
Please be sure that a USB stick is plugged in.
Found USB stick attached as: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Start repartitioning USB stick. LED will stop blinking when done. Please wait…
FAILED
I have tried this over and over without success and have rebooted several times. The drive was purchased new online and reports as 1.3GB by Windows XP. I found this link [http://www.pendrivelinux.com/restoring-your-usb-key-partition/] that talks about resetting your USB drive and tried that as well without any luck.
Any help from users who are using USB logging would be appreciated.
Thanks,
kartcon
UPDATE - SOLVED
OK, I was able to solve this by reformatting the drive as a single partition FAT32. I’m not sure if it was a single partition out of the box, but the standard windows format procedure was not correct for Vera. Hope this helps someone who is having a similar problem.
Is anyone able to advise if they have successfully used a USB drive larger than 1gb?
I have tried two different 1gb thumb drives (each formatted before attempting to use them - tried fat and fat32) on multiple occasions on my Vera 2.
I get:
Start installing required kernel modules and apps. please wait…
Then nothing. The box eventually becomes unresponsive and needs to be powered cycled in order to get back into the UI. On each occasion I have waited over 45 minutes (the wiki says 20 minutes) just to make sure.
I have even logged into the shell to see if it the attempt was successful given i have never got a success or failure message and it doesn’t appear to be finishing at all.
Getting any new 1gb USB drives is becoming harder and harder, many start at 2 or 4Gb now. If I was to try with a larger drive would it work?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as my Vera is becoming extremely slow and unresponsive most of the time making it extremely hard to work with
[quote=“garrettwp, post:4, topic:169396”]A fresh out of the box San Disk should work. Do not format it before hand as it could cause more head aches.
Garrett[/quote]
Thanks Garrett
I tried two new 1gb USB drives straight out of the box, they didn’t work, so I tried formatting them. Once to fat then another fat32 nothing.
I think I will head town to the shops now and see if I can find a San disk drive now and give it another go
Will let you know how I get on.
Thanks
EDIT: Tried with a brand new 8Gb San Disk (smallest I could get) - First time box became unresponsive. Power Cycled, tried again and success - for USB Logging anyway. :-/
The USB Logging is now working (or appears to be / Vera is running much quicker and the USB shows as being mounted) only to find that none of my devices function anymore. They all show up with “transmit failed with code 1” and goes red after trying to turn them on. I have tried a full heal, the unit gets stuck on a particular device and then Vera becomes unresponsive, I power cycle and try a heal on just a single device - it reports success but still the device doesn’t work.
I restored from the most recent backup created just before I added USB logging and restarted the Vera and still nothing.
@Fitzy - I really don’t want to get into this thread, but…
Your issue sounds like Vera is losing connection to the Z-Wave dongle when you connect the USB stick. My thought is that the Linux device numbers are possibly changing. They shouldn’t, but…
I would try; connecting to Vera via SSH and running the command dmesg | grep tty After the USB stick is mounted.This will list the serial interfaces, one of which is connected to the Z-Wave dongle. It is usually connected to ttyS0, but it may be worth trying any other interfaces(not the one that is attached to “console”) in your Vera config. Pay attention, this is case sensitive.
In your Vera UI5 the setting is located at Setup -> Z-Wave Settings -> Options -> Port which is usually
/dev/ttyS0
but I would try any other ttySn interfaces as well.
[quote=“Z-Waver, post:8, topic:169396”]@Fitzy - I really don’t want to get into this thread, but…
Your issue sounds like Vera is losing connection to the Z-Wave dongle when you connect the USB stick. My thought is that the Linux device numbers are possibly changing. They shouldn’t, but…
I would try; connecting to Vera via SSH and running the command dmesg | grep tty After the USB stick is mounted.This will list the serial interfaces, one of which is connected to the Z-Wave dongle. It is usually connected to ttyS0, but it may be worth trying any other interfaces(not the one that is attached to “console”) in your Vera config. Pay attention, this is case sensitive.
In your Vera UI5 the setting is located at Setup -> Z-Wave Settings -> Options -> Port which is usually
/dev/ttyS0
but I would try any other ttySn interfaces as well.[/quote]
Sorry, let me clarify.
I don’t have a problem.
I was just trying to get svaleb to clarify what his problem was :-/
@fitzy
To your question : both, while setting up USB logging vera becomes unresponsive, I have been trying for days.
BUT suddenly…succes.
I will hope it stays on, I had USB logging on erlier untill vera became “unresponsive” it took me a long time to find out that it was the USB logging that had crashed. I found out by taking out the usb and all went back to normal. So, I bought a new stick, 8 gb (to be sure it was ok).
Formatted to fat32.
But now it works !
Did not do anything different.
Thanks for your concern and help, all of you !!!
Regards
CE
