@Claude-Robitaille said in Omega2+/power dock 2 and USB power issue:

• how can you expect this to work years of unattended operation?

I will second this. As someone who purchased the Omega for business use and potential deployment to customers I am very concerned with a number of issues on a product that has been out for 3 years.
Interesting to see a reply to this as the reliability of this product so far is not looking great.

Note! This is not a dig at onion, but more stating the facts.

Thank you for the suggestion with the power supply.

This morning I have tried a number of different power supply units (including the official rPi3 plug and cable) and this allowed me to get the device setup and SD card expanded as per the guides.

Issue now is the wifi looses connection to my home internet? The AP is still up but the 'second connection' to the router fails?

If it helps, I use apple airport router and a number of AP. The wifi failed on both router/ap AND also failed when tethering to my mobile phone wifi hotspot?

Now if I boot the device up with the ethernet expansion board connected (I use the expansion dock with my Omega2+) I can get network address/connectivity from my router/network. But again, remove the ethernet module and I am back to only having the ability to SSH/WebConsole via the Omega AP.

Could this be power related?, The Omega is using the latest firmware available from the Onion repos and flashed using the onion guides.

Many thanks

Hey,

I am having countless issues with your device.

The firmware has been updated to the latest version (using your guides)

If I use a MicroSD card (no matter what card and I have many) on fresh flashing of the firmware you end up in a constant setup loop and/or index page with no console installed.

When I setup the device without any form of SD card, it works fine. I then follow your guide to the T to expand/boot from MicroSd card, it then fails and back to index page. Having to reset and end up back in the setup loop again.

When I setup without SD card all is ok except your apps work less than half the time with the web (on any browser on multiple OS types), your ethernet expansion dock fails to connect 9/10 times and is very sensitive to network cables.......

The Wifi is very hit and miss sometimes working sometimes not... it refuses to connect to my local wifi when the ethernet board is on, this has again been tested on multiple network devices on different networks(locations).

What is the issue? Do I need to return the product(s) to the store?