PV website issues?

#1

A week back while I was away my Rasp Pi stopped uploading data. This happens every 6 months or so and because I don’t know anything about the coding on it, I do the only thing I can, switch it off, switch it back on and hope it works. Most times it does, but I occasionally have to wipe its sd card and put a new image back on it and it’s away again (I have two sd cards, with a pre installed image on the spare).
This is no longer working. The Pi exports data for a few hours, then stops again. The Pi gets its data from an old EnviR. Everything has new batteries, all connections checked.
The only thing I have noticed is when I go to the PV website it’s 50/50 whether it actually loads, even this help forum page took two attempts, so I am now wondering could it be a PV website issue or is my ISP in the UK doing something to intermittently block the data upload.

Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated

#2

Hi @warren333.

Is your PI wirelessly connected to your router of connected via Cat 5 / Cat 6? I found that my PI 3B would regularly drop its Wi-Fi connection to my router. In my case I chose to connect it via cable. The other option would be to check to see it the Wi-Fi connection was working and reboot the PI if not.

How big is the SD card? If it is smallish and the script that you are using to upload the data to PVO is logging / saving too much data to the card your could be filling it up. The OS on the PI will be very unhappy if it runs out of space.

If you have been using the same SD cards for a long time it is possible that they have degraded and are causing a problem.

If you run the command ‘dmesg’ at the command prompt it could give you some clues.

If you think that it is a network problem can you try using the ping command to / from the PI?

A few thoughts - hopefully something helpful amongst them.

Grannos.