My Bela Gem stereo is not responsive any more.

alexandros

I'm doing a lot of testing to get Pyo up and running on my Bela Gem stereo. I finally made it, but now my Bela is not responsive any more. It doesn't appear as a network connection on my computer and the IDE can't be started, of course. I tried flashing the image to the SD card several times, but no luck. Could it be that the board is damaged somehow? Is there anything I can check to verify the actual problem?

giuliomoro

What are the LEDs doing when you power it on? Both the ones on the pb2 and the ones on the cape

alexandros

giuliomoro Actually it got resurrected. I have no idea what happened. While it was not responding, the LEDs on the pb2 where both on (a green one blinking and a red constantly on) and the blue on the bela was blinking.
Sometimes, when I try things out, the bela disconnects and I get a message on the IDE asking whether the bela is connected. I thought that the extra board fastened with the standoffs was too tight and was loosening it, but I guess that was not what it was.
Is there something I can check when things like that happen?

giuliomoro

alexandros While it was not responding, the LEDs on the pb2 where both on (a green one blinking and a red constantly on) and the blue on the bela was blinking.

That means Linux is up and running... while the LEDs behave like that, if it doesn't show up on the host it's either down to a bad usb connection or something overloading the system. It's pretty hard to overload 4 cores, but if you run out of RAM, the OS may freeze for a few seconds. Not sure what happens to the lights there, but within 20 seconds or so it should be working again.