Install of picroft image - stuck at please wait a moment

Mycroft Project Picroft
#25

It’s not bricked, you can still wipe the SD and install any OS on it.

Mark 2 device is about $350 USD, not sure Mycroft team will give you this in exchange of a RPi 3. Picroft is more a community project rather than a product from Mycroft they are not oblige to provide support on it.

I stopped using Picroft the first day I tried it, I switched to a Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Lite and then install mycroft-core following the official documentation.

Not sure you will get more help on Picroft.

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#26

i am not in picroft anymore. the same bug in rasberry OS.

#27

I switched to a Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Lite and then install mycroft-core following the official documentation.

I have same issue .

#28

can i call you?

are you own a rPi 4 or rPi 3?

#29

Nop.

I have a RPi4B.

#30

I bet it is a memory issue on rpi3 and that the json is now too large for it.

do you work for MyCroft? We need to get this no longer supported rPi 3b issue looked at.

do you have a Mark 1 to send me (its based on rpi 3 right?)

#31

I do not work for Mycroft.

#32

mycroft has refused to return my telephone calls and my emails to them. Sad…

Thank you for your efforts :slight_smile:

Perhaps I have to buy a pi 4 :frowning:

#33

how much ram in your pi?

#34

If you have a Mark 2 then they will answer you because you paid for the product but if you try to install mycroft-core or Picroft on any devices then they don’t have to because it is community based.

I got 4Gb and 8Gb.

#35

thanks. I so bet that the JSON is now (125 KB) too larger for 1GB rPi 3b :frowning:

whats in the mark 1? I thought a rpi 3b - if so then all users of mark 1 are dead too

#36

are you using a fan on your pi?

#37

Yes because I O/C the CPU to 2.25Ghz and the GPU (core) to 900Mhz.

#38

does the noise of the fan bother the microphone and mycroft ability to hear you speak?

#39

No, I’m using a NF-A4x10 PWM regulated via PWM and managed by gpio-fan which means it starts only when a temperature is reached.

#40

i bought new rpi 4b 4gb ram, installed same rpi os as you.

then ran a simple python program to get same data as the bug in mycroft does and it too hangs!

can you run please and tell me your version number:

python -m pip show requests

thanks Gary

#41

I FOUND the bug.

see your skill is crashing mycroft clients · Issue #26 · andlo/fairytalez-skill · GitHub

the author has invalid inicode in the json and its breaking everyone…

how do i get the mycroft folks to fix this?

#42

I’m confused, because I asked you multiple times if you removed your skills directory and you mentioned that you fresh install as well. If that was the case, this skill would have been removed and mycroft-core should have been able to start.

The skill is from @andlo which is not part of the Mycroft team, opening an issue on the skill was the right thing to do. Now you will have to wait until @andlo has some time (if he has) to fix the skill or you can write a GitHub PR with a fix.

Good thing is that you found your issue. :+1:

#43

the mc core alsways downloads the 150k json file - of all marketplace skills. at start of app. I have no personal skills installed.

#44

i still dont understand how you got stock rpi OS and added stock mycroft and it woerks for you but not for me. Still says Please wait…