<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Joe</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I really don’t have a problem with performance, longevity or reliability using the SD card. In fact, I also run a PiHole and SoftEther VPN on this same Pi without having to add the extra expense and time setting up an external SSD. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I did try that on my Weather Station running WeeWx (PI3) with an external SSD and it lasted about 2 years before the file system got corrupted and required a total rebuild sadly. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have already done the git pull and it says it is up to date and that showed 1.56 being pulled. Do I need to redo it all over starting with the git -reset? That part wasn’t in the documentation.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">73</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mike va3mw</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 29, 2021, at 8:47 PM, JOSEPH REED via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hi Mike,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did your friend execute git —reset hard before issuing a git pull?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also have a headless rpi4 so I ssh in as “pi”, execute a sudo su - sysop to switch user context to the sysop user, cd /spider; git —reset hard; git pull followed by a sudo reboot. Never have had a problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With the price of USB 3.1 SSD drives so cheap I’d ditch the SD10 card and go USB, much better I/O performance and increased reliability. I have one I am testing with 64 bit Debian 10 on the Raspberry PI. You create a UEFI partition and use Rufus to upload the installation image and the ethernet driver (not currently AFAIK supported). Since it started as a beta Debian 10 release I am monitoring it for updates and nonsuch. Would love to get off of the 32 bit rpi stuff and have access to the full repository.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">YMMV,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">73,</div><div class="">Joe N9JR</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 29, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Michael Walker via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" class="">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi All<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I updated the PI via GIT PULL and that looks like it worked (I guess - my GIT experience is limited ).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is it required that I reboot as I am sitting on this wonderful Uptime of 505 days. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And, I am still at v1.55 build 0.216. I had another friend of mine say he followed the same procedure and rebooted and is still at 1.55 216. Guidance would be appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BTW, for those that asked, it is a RPI4 with a good quality SD Card. I only have the Raspbian build with just a console interface and I do a few updates on it as suggested. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To take the load of the SD Card/log files, I run log2ram <a href="https://github.com/azlux/log2ram" class="">https://github.com/azlux/log2ram</a> and then I pretty much never touch it again. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Many 73</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike va3mw</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div></div>
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