Pi-top[1] it lives... Power's off. no more "red light"

pi-top [1] + pi-topCEED
#1

Two things

  1. If you have to power cycle Pi-Top[1] by pressing power button > 5 seconds, then wait about 30 seconds before you power it back up. Otherwise it seems to lock out the hub, and you get no display. May help someone
  2. I managed to get a version of Sirus (Buster) to work, certainly on a Pi3B+. I’ll write it up and post at some time. (ie power off works properly and turns the “red” light off…Sirus image (its in one of the other posts) found here. https://www.kallysta.com/pi-top-os/pi-topOS-sirius_C712_2019-11-25.zip

(See post pi-topOS-sirius_C737_2020-04-23 kill my pi-top3)

#2

I spoke too soon, it decided to download the pt-device-n=manager. Syslog seems to be looking in file
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pthub/pthub_spi.py

Silly me, I2C wasn’t enabled to load the I2C kernal, now sees battery and speaker , BUT onoff switch doesn’t shutdown the Raspberry Pi, its as if the shutdown routines are missing… A real shame that someone at PiTop can’t look into it, most of the parts are working. Would be nice that they powered off via the switch…

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May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Initialising I2C connection…
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Unable to read from hub (v3) over i2c: [Errno 5] Input/output error
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Unable to detect pi-topHUB v3 connection
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Could not initialise v3 hub
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Attempting to find pi-topHUB v2…
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Initialising I2C connection…
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Unable to read from hub (v2) over i2c: [Errno 5] Input/output error
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Unable to detect pi-topHUB v2 connection
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Could not initialise v2 hub
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Attempting to find pi-topHUB v1…
May 23 16:54:15 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Initialising I2C…
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Initialising SPI…
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Error creating SPIHandler. [Errno 2] No such file or directory
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pthub/pthub_spi.py”, line 485, in initialise#012 _spi_handler = SPIHandler(state)#012 File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pthub/pthub_spi.py”, line 87, in init#012 self._setup_spi()#012 File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pthub/pthub_spi.py”, line 213, in _setup_spi#012 self.spi.open(0, 1)#012FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Unable to detect pi-topHUB via SPI
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Could not initialise v1 hub
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: Could not connect to a hub!
May 23 16:54:16 pi-top /usr/lib/pt-device-manager/pt-device-manager[366]: No pi-top hub detected