Trouble Uploading NOAA Reports

[MuntyWeather]

Hi Hans
Now seems AOK. NOAA reports come up and I'm on the map!
Thanks and regards,Ted

[HansR]

OK, that's good.
I will include this in the next release.

[HansR]

Hi Hans,
Rather long story: wrt certificates:/mozilla/DST_Root_CA_X3.crt was not on the list. Updated the system, deleted and reinstalled mono. CMX working. Ran Cutils website. Still stops while referencing maps.txt. NOAA reports the same. log attached .
Cautionary tale: this all started when I added a solid state drive to the system. I tried to get it to boot from the SSD but was unsuccessful. So now it boots from the microSD. CumulusMX and the data files are on the SSD.
Thanks and Regards, Ted

Hi Ted,

I looked at your site today and there still seems to be a problem.
Is it worth diving into it (over PM)?

[AndyKF650]

Hi there

I just looked at the issue of upgrading to SSD card from micro SD card on RPi and from my own experience a SSD on a RPi does work.

This was something I did over a year ago and from memory I set up the SSD with RPi operating system remotely and then changed the boot order so that it was the primary boot. The micro SD card was removed and once the RPi was restarted all the usual programs ie mono CMX and CUtils were added together with the data Reports and .ini files added back to get a fully functioning SSD card system.

It probably was a bit of a fiddle but worth it in the end as the SSD card has way more memory capacity than a micro SD card for not that much more money.

[Nossie]

To add to what Andy said ....

I use a Pizero 2 w for pihole and basic networking - on an SD card
I use a pi4 8GB for the weatherstation, heavy lifting on other apps - on an SSD.

The difference is night and day - which you may have noticed with the SSD mount... however - more importantly it's reliability.

It's not IF your SD card fails, it's WHEN. You either need to have a great backup strategy as to when it fails you can just image a new card - or in 6 - 9 months time, if there are a lot of writes - it WILL - fail.

So depending on your pi - it's worth imaging your OS to SSD and then following the instructions below - I wont be responsible for you being a sad panda when the SD card eventually fails.

https://www.raspberrystreet.com/learn/h ... om-usb-ssd

[HansR]

Adding to what Andy and Ian said: not all SSd's do actually work with an RPi. I bought a cheap (yes yes ) Chinese SSD for €10. It mounted, it worked, but I could not get it bootable. So not everything will work.

[Nossie]

ouch Hans, 10 euros? what capacity did it claim to be and what did it format to? did you ever get it working even as removable media?

[HansR]

It's a 500Gb disk and I could format (to its size) and write to it but it did not boot.

[AndyKF650]

Hi Hans

I assume that you formatted the new drive on a remote pc and then loaded the Raspbian OS as a bootable drive, this should set up the drive with all the necessary partitions to ensure a clean boot when installed on the RPI.

My SSD is a Transcend MTS830S 128 GB M.2 2280 SATA III 6 Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 3D TLC NAND with DRAM Cache current price on Amazon £30 the following link shows.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1

The drive is an M.2 drive and fits in an Argon One housing which sits neatly on my desk.

[Nossie]

I use the same case as you - the Argon One ... it's a good case, but I think I'm overloading it with SSDs hanging off the back too.

[HansR]

I assume that you formatted the new drive on a remote pc and then loaded the Raspbian OS as a bootable drive, this should set up the drive with all the necessary partitions to ensure a clean boot when installed on the RPI.

I don't remember exactly what I did, no I don't think I formatted it on PC. I'll see and try again
I just ordered another €14 128 Gb SSD at Amazon though... always going cheap