Hi Bart.
I cannot get my FLM working again after a power outage.
I have posted in this link with no success.
https://www.flukso.net/content/no-ip-connect
I have emailed you twice.
I am also disappointed that no one has replied to them.
It has been a few days now.
I reply on the FLM to give my rebate figures for my solar input (using PV output as the summary)
This is what happened again:
I tried to add Gerb guages with no success.
I put FLM back to normal.
Was working ok all night.
Power outage in the morning, FLM would not turn back on .
Lights, power, heartbeat , eth, all stationary.
What I have tried.
The procedure in the linked post using WinSCP, Putty etc.
With either I cannot get a response from the FLM.
I have tried 192.168.255.1 and the ip addy's I was using on my network before failure.
This is getting urgent now.
Can you please offer some advise?
Thankyou Bazzle
Bazzle, I'm following your problems for a while now. It seems that power outages cause the Flukso to stop working. Could this be a hardware problem? A spike which causes the Flukso to freeze when power comes up again? If so, you probably need a battery backup for the Flukso.
If all is broken, you can restore the Flukso's firmware by keeping the pushbutton pressed between one and two minutes. Be patient, it takes some time then for the firmware to install but eventually you can login again and reconfigure settings.
Thank you for the reply Jgysen
I have tried that twice. I will try again this afternoon when I get home from work.
Third time lucky?
Baz
Thank you for the reply Jgysen
I have tried that twice. I will try again this afternoon when I get home from work.
Third time lucky?
Cheers Baz
Good luck. It's important to wait long enough. I don't know how much time the restore takes but I remember having a coffee and something to eat before returning to the business at hand.
Sadly no go.
No Heart beat.
Needs Major resuscitation.
I would be grateful if Bart can offer comment here but Im guessing thats not going to happen any time soon :(
Hello Bazzle,
If you're not able to get a connection to the Fluksometer boot loader using the ap51-flash tool as described in the no-ip-connect blog post, then it looks like the flash in your FLM is as dead as a dodo. If this is the case, there's no practical way to bring this FLM back to life.
If you have lots of power outages or lightning strikes on your part of the grid, you might consider installing some kind of surge suppression equipment.
Cheers
/Bart
Hi Bart.
Thank you for coming on.
I do have surge supression in the the power box as its needed for the solar generators.
We dont get a lot of outages just now and then when there is a car crash, transformer burn out etc.
Please advise what I should do now?
Thank you Bazzle
I guess that means purchasing a "new" FLM :(
I'll try contacting Rowetel tomorrow?
http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=312
Baz
I'm afraid so.
Ive sent emails to his addy's on the contact page. No answers.
How do you contact him?
I might have to get sent from you again.
I was hoping for a quick delivery.
Hi Bazzle, I only recently purchased my flukso from Rowetel within the last month, so it should be fine, and received it within a few days. I just ordered from the site.
If you pay my PayPal, there shouldn't be a problem in any case if you need a refund.
They also did not reply to my email I sent last week when the website was down.
Frank
Cheers Ordered that way
Baz
New one fitted.
Strange re the failed one?
Power only went off for a very short time.
Oven and microwave didnt even reset.
Only knew as PC UPS beeped for a second.
Bart.
Can I send unit back for a look?
Baz
Also have you found a way to add the data from my earlier flm to the new one yet?
Baz
Im guessing no answers means no support?
The old way to store data on flukso.net was through the use of rrdtool. One rrdtool file is allocated per sensor. It's a pain to migrate data from one rrd file to the other. So it's an all-or-nothing option. But migrating data from one rrd into an existing second rrd is not an option.