I built a full kit from Zynthian, with the wifi berry+, the nice case and touch display with the 4 encoders.
It works, but…I suspect my extreme latency issue when using midi in jack is because its not updating.
I have the zynthian connected to my laptop via wired ethernet, and i can sftp into the zynthian, use the webconf interface webpages using zynthian.local. I do in fact hear instruments that I create layers for.
The laptop is win8.1 64bit, and it connects to the internet via my wireless adaptor, which is shared with the wired ethernet adaptor.
But I am not convinced my zynthian is getting updated.
How can i tell if it is updating?
or… perhaps someone can tell that i am missing something
You should be able to automatically update from the webconf…
The hex code isn’t increasing it’s simply the first six characters of a much longer unique string identifying the commit of code. However it is the best way of telling precisely which lump of code you have loaded…
When you connected your Zynthian with the pc, it won’t update.
Unless you have configured your pc that way, that I doubt.
You should connect the Zynthian with your router
The software update function on the webconf is under the software menu, if you don’t see the menus try the hamburger (three horizontal bars on the left hand side of the screen) to get the menu.
As mheidt says you need to have a connection to a router and then out to the Internet to get this to work.
the webconf update will make a fairly detailed report of the update process so that should tell you if everything is working properly.
From what you show your IP address seems a little different from what you tend to get with a ‘normal’ router.
Can you log onto the zynth as root ?
ssh root@169.254.190.95?
If so you should be able to ping google …
ping google.com
to establish if you have a connection from the zynth to the great big hideous Internet and then onto the github repositories…
You should connect your zynthian to the router (local network) using an ethernet cable or Wifi. Connecting to the PC will allow to access your zynthian (webconf, ssh) but currently zynthian can’t connect to the Internet using the PC as a gateaway.
Looking at your screenshot, It seems that your zynthian is connected to your PC because the IP address starts with “169.254” that is a “link local” IP address. Please, check that it gets a “normal” local network IP address when connected to the router.
Connecting to the router normally works very well out-the-box and you should update the software without problems. Ahhh! When updating is working OK, you should update twice for installing all the new packages
Regarding your latency problems. It’s not normal at all!! Gorgona image normally works perfectly OK out-the-box (without updating!), with a small latency of around of 10ms. So, if you are having latency issues, i doubt it’s solved by updating. You should give more details about how are you using your zynthian, how you connect everything, what MIDI controllers, your audio chain (mixer, etc.). Also, check that your power source is good enough … this is a very common source of bizarre problems.
I doubt that you can get access to the Internet with this IP address, as it’s a link-local address.
From the wikipedia:
In a computer network, a link-local address is a network address that is valid only for communications within the network segment or the broadcast domain that the host is connected to. Link-local addresses are most often assigned automatically through a process known as stateless address autoconfiguration or link-local address autoconfiguration .[1]
Link-local addresses are not guaranteed to be unique beyond their network segment, therefore routers do not forward packets with link-local addresses.
Anyway, I did get ipmidi/qmidinet working… and in deed, working quite good. Even the usb midi devices work well… just not the midi in (well, I have no way of testing midi out either).
