Misc tech questions (power, case, programming)

I had it booted up prior to running it in my home board, all features worked i.e. fan on/off heat on/off, set temp… I installed a fresh image on a new sd card, and booted it up, now nothing, just loading…

I’m not sure what is preventing the system from booting on the screen. No problems accessing to the web ui, and ssh but it will not load on the thermostat screen anymore.

Can you check the SD card?

I’ve used 4 different ones.

I think I may have narrowed down an issue. I have two different touchscreens and only one of them seems to work correctly. One will boot into the dashboard and the other two will get caught in the loading… screen. I’m not sure how this is causing my issues. The screen that does work, is upside down and needs to be rotated somehow, either physically or in the software. Making progress…

“Lost Connection issue” - This problem was resolved by deleting the files tmp and cache located in /var/lib/openhab2. Stop the service via sudo systemctl stop openhab2.service, delete the files, then start the service via sudo systemctl start openhab2.service. Connection came back after that. I’ll have to track down where I read that solution for the full article.