[Helios4 Support]

Thanks, I suspected it was nothing to do with Helios4, but had a nagging doubt re SD card. Link very much appreciated. P.

[Helios4 Support]

I haven’t used my Helios4 for about a week. On logging in to the web interface today, it seems to accept my credentials, but then throws me back to the login page again. Not the same as a failed login attempt. Just no CP.

 

I can access via SSH, have changed web admin password, still the same problem. No idea what to do – any suggestions appreciated.

 

P.

[Helios4 Support]

6 hours ago, gprovost said:

@AgentPete  We designed Helios4 as a 24 / 7 server board with the idea you won’t shut it down or if you do you would just unplug the AC/DC adapter (like raspberry pi). However there is a suspend mode that you can use and then perform a wake-on-lan.

Anyhow I must admit it would have been better to have a proper shutdown mode. In our next product we will design with a dedicated power management IC in order to support power off mode.

Not a problem, very easy to fit a switch into the power cord, or to plug into a wall socket Just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a patch I should have applied.

[Helios4 Support]

A minor question. The fans on my unit go to “max” if it is shutdown (via OMV). This isn't a temp "cool-down", they will stay in this state until the unit is repowered.  Other than isolating the unit from the mains, is there any software remedy for this? Thanks.

[Helios4 Support]

On 10/29/2018 at 8:37 AM, NickS said:

OLED panel

Here's my version of the sys-oled script with various panels for...

System Logo;

System Load, Fan & Temperature;

HDD activity;

Network activity;

Temperature & Clock

 

Anyone wishing to deploy it will need to change the location of their HDDs in status_hdd()

Also change location of  temperature sensor in cpu_temp() depending on your Kernel

 

Apologies for the crude code - Python is not my favourite!

oled.py

 

 

There are some really nice examples of even more creative uses of the OLED display over on GitHub, including a graphical clock,  vertical scroller, display sysinfo, a Tweet scroller, weather update, and so on.  Unfortunately, they all need some adapting, which is beyond my pay grade. But hopefully, a coder might be interested…?

[Helios4 Support]

2 hours ago, gprovost said:

 This is not normal. Could be a faulty I2C screen. Even after a full power cycle the OLED screen still show this doodles on the first few lines ?

Yep, been cycled several times now.

[Helios4 Support]

Can I just say how delighted I am with my new Helios4? It’s a lovely piece of kit, and the online instructions are extremely well-written, too. Many congratulations to everyone concerned, a great job!

 

I just have a minor query on the OLED screen, see attached pic.

 

a) top line of the display is garbled, anything I can do about that?

 

b) I don’t really need to display free space on the SD card, but would like to show the two volumes, /dev/dm-0 and /dev/dm-1. As you can see, dm-0 is not showing correctly, at the moment, showing total space as 997M when it should be 15.82TB. Current sys-oled.conf file is below.

 

Again, thanks for your hard work!

 

# Storage Device 1
# Device name
storage1_name = sd

# Device mount path
storage1_path = /

# Storage Device 2
storage2_name= dm-0
storage2_path= /dev/dm-0
 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie7xclyq8ip7hr4/2019-08-19 08.25.20.jpg?dl=0