What to do after installation?

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What to do after installation?

son-dh opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Sorry for such a noob question, but I am trying to get PiWeatherRock displays on the LCD screen of my Rasp Pi 1 Model B (Buster Lite). I have done the config and ran the installation, but nothing happens on my CLI screen on the LCD (HDMI port is not used).

I checked the status of PiWeatherRock in systemctl, and here it gets confusing to me:

I checked the status from the terminal screen on the LCD, it said .../weather.py (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) . Yet when I check from my computer through SSH, the service active (running), and the failure line is not there.
A few moments later, the reversal happened between the terminal and SSH

What obvious thing that I am missing here?

Gene Liverman · Answer 1 · Mon Mar 23 2020 21:54:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You will want to use at least "Raspbian Buster with desktop" for things to just work. It is possible to get things going with the Lite version but it takes a fair bit of manual work. Are you game to try the desktop version @son-dh?

son-dh · Answer 2 · Mon Mar 23 2020 22:02:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I was thinking that might be the reason. I will install a desktop environment on the pi then!

Gene Liverman · Answer 3 · Wed Apr 01 2020 06:01:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Any better @son-dh?

son-dh · Answer 4 · Wed Apr 01 2020 12:30:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@genebean thanks for reaching out! Yes I managed to get it working finally last weekend, and I have read the news about Dark Sky acquisition today... how irony...

Thanks for the great piece of work, though! With the social distancing, I can look at the weather without going outside :D

Gene Liverman · Answer 5 · Wed Apr 01 2020 18:42:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Glad to hear it! The Dark Sky stuff is a bummer but we will adapt.