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@Michel Kohanim Previous errors from "sudo zpool export storage" and "sudo nvmecontrol devlist" occurred after doing an IoX Upgrade and Reboot. Today, I did an eisy power cycle, and now have no error from "sudo zpool export storage" and [admin@eisy ~]$ sudo zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 928G 7.65M 928G - - 0% 0% 1.00x ONLINE - zudi 50.5G 2.88G 47.6G - - 14% 5% 1.00x ONLINE - After another reboot, all seems fine now. /storage/sounds is intact, and MP3 files play fine. Perhaps a power cycle after the initial Upgrade, Reboot would have put everything back in order.

@Michael What's up doc? [admin@eisy /storage]$ sudo zpool export storage cannot open 'storage': no such pool Also, sudo nvmecontrol devlist Returns nothing now.

@Michel Kohanim I did, indeed, Michel. Per your fine instructions: https://developer.isy.io/blog/NVMe Should I enter both commands again before the next reboot?

Updated AudioPlayer to 1.0.5 yesterday. Today, after doing an IoX Upgrade & Restart (remained on IoX 5.8.0 but lots of packages were updated), I found the files and the /storage/sounds directory on the installed NVMe had been deleted. I re-created /storage/sounds, set permissions, and put the MP3 files back, and all is well again. What did I do wrong that caused the /storage/sounds directory to be deleted?

Good work, Gary.

@garybixler Great. So, around Tuesday or so, we'll look forward to seeing your success story. 😀

@garybixler Give it a try - it just takes a little digging into the linux commands and there's a ton on info available on line. I chose to install the NVMe SSD as I plan to install HA and try to learn about that system AND I really didn't want to take a chance that I might mess up something in the eisy file structure that UDI developed. For the installation instructions on the SSD, great instructions from UDI are available here: https://developer.isy.io/blog/NVMe Once installed per those instructions, the new /storage directory will be created with the permissions set for admin. Then ssh into your eisy (follow the UDI instructions), and issue 'cd /storage' to get to your new directory. To create a new sounds directory there for your MP3 files, issue: sudo mkdir sounds To set admin permissions for /storage/sounds: sudo chown admin /storage/sounds sudo chgrp admin /storage/sounds sudo chmod 755 /storage/sounds Then move your mp3 files to /storage/sounds as outlined previously. Regarding the NVMe SSD to use, the UDI installation instructions say: "You can get pretty much any M.2 NVMe SSD with the limitation that the capacity cannot be more than 1TB." I chose a WB Black 1TB M.2 2280 for capacity and for its good reviews. Don't wait for that integrated system to upload MP3 files - give it a try like I did. I certainly learned a lot during the process about the eisy file structure that I'm sure will serve well going forward with other projects, like HA. Good luck!

@garybixler I added an NVMe SSD to my eisy, per the instructions Michel provided here a few days ago. Setup the new file storage system as /storage. And created a directory to store the MP3 files, /storage/sounds The MP3 files I wanted to push to eisy were on a windows 11 PC, so I used the scp command to push those files to the new storage on eisy. From the windows directory with the desired mp3 files, D:\IoX\Sounds, used scp in a windows command prompt to push the files. Something like this for a single file: scp ./alert.mp3 admin@eisy.local:/storage/sounds Use your own eisy admin username here. Per Michel's info on the plugin, "For custom sounds, for now, you are in charge of creating a directory, uploading your music files, and giving read permission either to the plugin user or everyone." Indeed, I had to play a bit within eisy with chown, chmod, and chgrp to get permissions set for the directory and the files in /storage/sounds. (Lot's of info available on these linux commands with a quick web search). Once the files are in your desired directory in eisy, you'll need to add that directory in the path Custom Configuration parameter in the PG3x AudioPlayer plugin (for me it's /storage/sounds). I then restarted the plugin, and restarted the IoX Admin Console, and was able to select and play the files placed in the new eisy directory. Hope this helps a little. It was a fun challenge for me to get it to work, and did take a bit of time.

Your new plug-in works great! Nice job, Michel. Took me a bit of head scratching to get the mp3 files moved to the right place on the newly installed NVMe SSD - but they are working fine now. Thanks for this very useful addition.

Thanks for the suggestion, @Ross. I'm still looking at options, including Yolink. Still, it seems curious to me that the weather data from my local station (a Marine Corps Auxiliary Field) varies so widely. I've loaded two other weather plug-ins and am looking at weather data from other sources to see what may be the most consistent for my location.

Thanks again for your input. My polling is set to 600, so no temperature changes are provided to my programs in less than 10 minutes, as shown in my sample above. I'd really like to know the reason for the sudden changes in the reported temperature before trying to mask a possible underling problem with the accuracy of the temperature data. I'll spend some time to look more closely at the data from source station. OpenWeatherMap indicates they use a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model to do some manipulation of data from several sources to improve quality and accuracy. Curious if this may be the cause of the variations in temperature data that is reported.

I appreciate the suggestion, but if the reporting station is really reporting this much variation in temperature, how would a delay in my program help? Meanwhile, I'm looking at other weather nodeserver/plug-in options.

Recently, I noticed my freeze warning programs were triggering off and on around the freezing point, even though I have 2 degrees of hysteresis in the programs. So, I created a webpage log to track the temperatures (CLITEMP) reported by OpenWeather (to log each reported temperature change), and was surprised to see how much the values change over a short time period - sample of the log below. 2023/12/24 00:05:27 46.35 2023/12/24 00:55:27 42.53 2023/12/24 01:05:27 45.19 2023/12/24 01:15:27 44.92 2023/12/24 01:25:27 45.19 2023/12/24 01:45:27 44.92 2023/12/24 02:05:27 40.73 2023/12/24 02:35:27 45.23 2023/12/24 02:45:28 40.73 2023/12/24 02:55:27 46.08 2023/12/24 03:05:12 42.48 Should I conclude that the local reporting station has some problems accurately reporting current temperature? And maybe move to another service that pulls data from a different source? Or is there something I can do with OpenWeatherMap?

Bingo! Thanks Javi. The Local Networks field seems to have been auto-populated with the model name of my router. I looked at that several times and still missed it was not the proper SSID entry. After I forced the correct SSID and Saved, the system now Tests Local Connection successfully. Many thanks.

In another post today, @Javi indicated that adding a Local Connection into UD Mobile will allow faster operation when on the same network. I've been using UDM via the Remote Connection Settings successfully for some time, and wanted to get the Local Connection setup. I've followed the wiki instructions here but must be missing something, as I receive the following error when selecting "Test Local Connection": Both the eisy and iPhone running UDM are on the same local network. In UDM, the Add Local Networks under System Network Relations correctly finds my local router's SSID, username/PW are properly set, IOS Location setting for UDM is set to Always, and the eisy ip is reserved in the router. I often use SSH on the iPhone to view the eisy log, so wifi access doesn't seem to be the problem. What am I missing? Thanks.

Installed onto an eisy and a remote Polisy using the two commands provided above. Both systems now show PG3x 3.1.35 and appear to be functioning properly.

Prior to upgrading to 3.5.9 yesterday, after restarting PG3x, Notification NS would report in UDM: polisy (UUID) Notification Node Server Standard Edition Startup But after updating to 3.5.9, UDM now reports: polisy (UUID) Notification Node Server Test Edition Startup Did I do something wrong during the update to revert from Standard to Test Edition? I just ran the Update again from PG3x Purchases, selecting Standard, but UDM continues to show Test Edition.

@Argilos Bob also provided some additional info on the various debug levels in this post:

Polisy accepts 5.5mm x 2.5mm coaxial DC connector.

A 2413U PLM modem from my 21Mar23 pre-order showed up in today's mail. Whu hoo. Revision 2.6 1223 Looking forward to getting it into my testbed.

My order for a 2413U was placed on 21Mar23, and so far have only received the same email as @BMarking , saying "pre-orders are expected to ship in the next few days." My order status currently shows: "Unfulfilled."

Ran upgrade packages for PG3x 3.1.22 -> 3.1.23. Left alone for several minutes. Couldn't log into PG3x, IoX showed Reboot required. Rebooted from Admin Console. AC showed reboot required after doing the reboot. Rebooted again, AC still showed reboot required. Front panel 5x and 6x presses didn't respond, so cycled eisy power. IoX 5.5.9 and PG3x 3.1.23 now working OK.

Updated an eisy and a Polisy at another location and rebooted both without issues. Had to restart PG3 to get weather Node Servers to update their online status. Great work by UDI.

Upgrade to IoX 5.5.7 and PG3 3.1.18 went smoothly following release notes procedure, including a Polisy power cycle then a PG3 restart. Well done, developers.

Chris acknowledged the bug report, and offered to investigate.