I reconnected the unplugged extension cord (which was not the same extension cord, fyi. it has been replaced with a shitty power strip.) tonight during the 5mof event around 9pm. Things seemed to boot back up but I didn't check everything thoroughly cuz I wanted to see the presentations and have replugged this extension cord in and power cycled the beaglebone twice already this week.

The clearest next steps to me:
* actually label the cords and wires that run the door, so people know those cords are vital (timeline: two years ago)
* run conduit for the electrical to the door computer enclosure (timeline: 2-3 weeks)
* upgrade access point in the entrance hall (timeline: one week)

it's power that's the issue, and unstable/unlabeled wiring - not ethernet, it seems to me...
but also everything should boot back up when plugged back in, no?

Lesley made a nice drawing of how to power cycle the beaglebone last night (why do two cords need to be unplugged & plugged back in?) and we taped it up inside the enclosure.

I could make labels but I don't know all the wires.

Jenny

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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
this has happened in the past and a couple of times this week, i think, that
the computer that handles the front door magnetic stripe reader shuts itself
off for some reason.

it's a beaglebone black and there is no reason it should shut off.  there are
no logs as to why because we generally run it in read-only mode on the main
disk, and logs are kept on a RAM disk.

here's someone else talking about the same issue:
http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php?topic=5547.0

when it's off, it has power but there are no lights on.  pressing the power
button turns it on.  wtf?

i could make a watchdog circuit that power-cycles it if this happens, but i
don't think that's really the right solution.  does someone want to take this
on and figure out wtf is going on?

probably using a USB stick for system logs would be a good start, and maybe
some increased level of logging.

-jake
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