For some reason the Raspberry-Pi stopped working last night. It had power and was connected up, but I had nothing on the monitor, and could not connect remotely. I had no choice but to hard power-down. It came back up fine, and weewx started running, but after one update, it was no longer updating the wx data. After trying many things, I had to to a memory dump, then clear memory on the Vantage logger. Luckily these tools are built into weewx along with a good troubleshooting guide, otherwise I'd be still floundering.
One issue I have had with this Pi, is the HDMI connector. I don't know if it is the cable, or the connector, but the connection is intermittent. This seems to only affect the monitor, so I don't think it is related. But if any of the other USB connectors were intermittent, it could be.
This is similar to the problems I was having a couple of years ago with my previous Raspberry-Pi. I wasn't sure if the Raspberry-Pi (memory card) was part of the problem, but I was due for a refresh of everything anyway. It did give me two years of no problems. I'm hoping this isn't a recurring trend.
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