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Hello all,

I am not able to connect my newly purchased Bela with the IDE.
Tried all of the trouble shooting steps, but to no avail.
When I type in http://bela.local/ the connection times out and the IDE doesn't come up.
When I type in the 192.168.6.2 ip address I get redirected to the beagleboard.org webpage.

The Bela in question is a starter kit which I have recently purchased together with a pepper kit from thonk.co.uk.
The pepper kit is not assembled yet. I just wanted to test the Bela starter kit first.
I have noticed that the Bela boot volume appearing on my Mac is named BEAGLEBONE and not BELABOOT.
Is it possible that the Bela boot system is not flashed onto the internal memory?

I also have another Bela (first generation) converted to a pepper eurorack module which works flawlessly.
Here the IDE is coming up and the the boot volume shows up as BELABOOT.

I am running a late 2012 Mac mini withMojave 10.14.6 installed.

Any help would be most appreciated.
Thank you.

    haK s it possible that the Bela boot system is not flashed onto the internal memory?

    if you get directed to the beaglebone site, then you're right. had the same thing happen once or twice.
    iirc there's a way to make sure you're booting from the SD card.

    edit: found it!
    insert SD card, hold press the USR button at the back of the BeagleBone, power up the BeagleBone while hold-pressing the button.
    that should boot Bela as we know it.
    after which you can flash the firmware to the internal memory.

      haK Is it possible that the Bela boot system is not flashed onto the internal memory?

      yes that sound right. The kit should have come pre flashed with the Bela image but maybe something went wrong when we put it together. If you have a spare SD card around that you could temporarily put to this task, you should be able to follow the instructions at this page to flash the SD card, then plug it into the BeagleBone and reboot the board. As mentioned by @Remork, you should hold press the USR button while powering it up, however that tends to be complicated and hit-and-miss with the Bela cape on top, so I normally recommend following Option 1 from this other page. Once the board has booted successfully from the SD card and you can access the Bela IDE at 192.168.7.2 (7, not 6), or bela.local, in the console at the bottom of the IDE enter this line and hit enter:

      /opt/Bela/bela_flash_emmc.sh

      The LEDs on the board will turn solid blue and the process of flashing the embedded memory (emmc) will start. Once the LEDs go off and the console shows a success message, you can gracefully shutdown the board, remove the SD card and reboot it from the eMMC. If everything goes fine, you no longer need the SD card for Bela and you can reuse it for whatever you need.

      If you don't have a spare micro SD card to use for this purpose, please contact us at orders@bela.io. Apologies for the inconvenience.

        Thanks so much for the quick reply and the help! It's working now. Yeah!!
        I had to go with option 1 (jumper wires) while booting from the SD card as pressing the USR button during power up appeared to be very tricky indeed.