Kiwisdr1 doesn’t boot up
It seems that I finally destroyed my Kiwisdr1 that I used over 5 years…
When I plug the DC supply in, the small blue LED#1 (the one on the left-most (printed “D2”) near the corner of the BB board) just starts to flash and doesn’t boot up. This appears to mean a problem in the FPGA initializing process, which is a hardware problem according to the online tutorials.
Could anyone help me in solving the problem or just giving-up the fact that the board is broken?
I just switched the RF cable and found out the problem after that.
Thank you in advance.
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The problem was solved for unknown reason.
I put the Kiwisdr and the BBG apart and reassembled them. Then, it started to work again.
This appears to mean a problem in the FPGA initializing process
No, that's not what LED #1 double-flashing every second means. That is the standard Debian/Linux heartbeat pattern, i.e. what Debian shows before the Kiwi software starts running (or fails to start). This should be clearly described in the operating info: http://kiwisdr.com/info/#id-leds
I haven't even released v1.696 yet that implements the new LED pattern that indicates FPGA initialization failure: http://kiwisdr.com/info/#id-fpga (update: v1.696 has been released).
Glad it's running again for you though.