Cannot access BT or Wifi: Venus OS on RPi 3B+

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Hi there,

This is somewhat a frustrating experience, I downloaded and flashed the latest Venus OS large image and can boot it on a Raspberry Pi 3B+.

I see it in Victron connect, but if I want to connect it fails, telling me to reboot the phone, etc. No success.

I then tried to setup WIFI on the Rpi, first, there is no raspi-config (why?!).
Then the OS is read-only. After re-mounting it rw and changing the WPA-Supplicant it still doesn’t connect after reboot.

How do you actually set this up?
Can anyone please help.

Thank you in advance!

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I played around with a pi3b+ 3 days ago, and upon first connection (Bluetooth) had some issues as well. After 3 connection atttempts, the app always said, that this device is already connected to another device.

I re-flashed the micro sd 2 or 3 times to reset and start over, and without any noticable change in “the process” it finally worked.

Pin to use was 000000, despite the phone is suggesting 0000 or 1234.

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This is probably the worst experience ever… why they take such a limited image is beyond my understanding.
Nothing installed, not working as in the description… that really sucks.

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The PI Image is provided free of charge, allowing you to fully utilize features, including cloud services etc.

It is released for DIY Purpose, so you shouldn’t expect to get a plug and play experience.

If you want that - then buy a cerbo that ships preinstalled and ready to run.

Which image did you use? The pi3b+ requires the image for the pi2, not for the pi4.

I’ve followed the instructions over here:

(used the win32diskimager ) and including errors / 2x reflashing it was up and running within 15 minutes.

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I didn’t expect a plug and play experience, I just expect it to work as advertised in the docs - which it doesn’t.
It wouldn’t be a problem to fix it, hadn’t they chosen a completely stripped down image.

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i have spent around 9 hours over a few days trying to make it work.

i am using Pi4-B which some sites suggest is the issue ,however there is a new Venus OS update from 24-9-24 which is alleged to work on the Pi4 B , its just not working for me.

I get the splash screen and line root@raspberrypi4:¬ # , If i try to convert to headless with;

mv /etc/venus/headless /etc/venus/headless.off

it says can’t rename Read Only file system.

i installed SetupHelper on to a USB stick , inserted that and tried the commands in Kwindrem’s Github page as a blind install but nothing would run despite rebooting a few times.

If i enter the following to make the root file into read / write gives me “making the rootfs writable”
/opt/victronenergy/swupdate-scripts/remount-rw.sh

i again enter mv /etc/venus/headless /etc/venus/headless.off
Hit reboot > enter

Hey presto >>> ITS WORKING IN GUI !!!