I’m running Zynthian on a Raspberry Pi 4. In the upper right-hand corner of my Zynthian screen, it shows a green circle arrow instead of the green heart icon:
Does this just mean that there’s a new software update? If so, is “green” still “healthy?”
The reason I ask is that I had some issues earlier with overruns (flashing red triangle exclamation mark, alternating with green heart). Once that happened, the synth would simply stop playing altogether. I had to reboot in order to get the Zynthian working again. Obviously not something that can happen during performance!
I theorized that it was because I had too many different chains loaded on the same snapshot, where I was using sub-snapshots to mute and unmute the various chains to support each song. I since created separate full snapshots with only the chains needed for each song.
If Zynthian is trying to tell me to get a software update, I’d rather hold off until the performance is done next week so I don’t potentially introduce any other issues with the new release. If it is telling me something else, I’d appreciate knowing that as well.
Thanks @wyleu for confirming. I think instead of updating it directly, I will create a new Zynthian instance on a separate card and restore my snapshots to it.
Hello, personally, I have had this symbol for a long time (stable version), even if I do system updates. I may wait for it to be corrected, in the meantime, it does not prevent me from playing
If you modified any code under the area for any of the git repositories, git will not update that repository on your machine till you tell git how to handle your alterations.
Git is running the world at this particular point.
Best way to detect this is go into each of the subdirectories of the zynthian directory at the root of the zynth and type git status. One will respond with changes. And this will need addressing.
There is a big in the current stable release which can leave the update symbol showing. I tried to fix it but that didn’t work for everyone. There will be a new stable release in the next few days that I expect to resolve this.
My zynthian does not like Ethernet over power connection and often lose packets. That can have impact on software updates because software update can be network demanding task. I had problems in past with updates due to this unstable network when I was not able to get green heart and logs would show intermittent issues with connections to repositories.
Therefore I advise anyone that whenever you do significant software update (e.g moving from stable to staging or test) to connect zynthian to stable and strong network connection (e.g. close to WiFi router or connect cable directly to router).
