My experience setting up AlbyHub on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.
I followed the instructions on the AlbyHub website for setting up Albyhub on a Pi Zero 2W.
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Initially the Pi would not boot, so I worked through the βboot problems stickyβ thread on the raspberry Pi forums -
STICKY: Is your Pi not booting? (The Boot Problems Sticky) - Raspberry Pi Forums
As per the instructions in the sticky thread I attempted to see if my Pi was officially DOA. Connecting my Pi to PC via USB cable resulted in absolutely nothing happening - this was not a good sign, it was not recognised on Windows or Linux.
I contacted the Pi Shop (
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) where I had bought the Zero 2W. They responded within two hours, which was impressive given that it was 27th December. They suggested I try a new/better quality usb cable: I must admit I was somewhat skeptical, but I tried with a cable that I used with another Raspberry Pi, and the Pi Zero 2W was recognised correctly - finally some success!
I tried booting again, but still no joy - I reimaged to SD card and tried again - the green activity light flashed - we're getting somewhere...
I returned to the instructions in the Albyhub guide but I got no response when trying to Ping albyhub.local :-(
I knew the Albyhub was connected because I had received a message on my Router App to say it had been added to the network. Using the Router App I found the IP address of the Albyhub and tried the Ping again - success!
I Googled around to find out how to resolve this host name issue - I can't find the website that helped me, but essentially I edited the hosts file in etc/hosts [sudo nano /etc/hosts] and appended albyhub.local to the exisitng '127.0.1.1 albyhub' line, so it now it read
'127.0.1.1 albyhub albyhub.local'.
With the hosts file updated I rebooted the Pi (probably not necessary) waited a few minutes and then tried to Ping albyhub.local again and now it worked.
I waited a few more minutes and then continued with the Albyhub guide to install albyhub. From this point on-wards everything went as per the guide and I now have my new Albyhub running on a Pi Zero 2W.
