2020-12-06, 11:17 AM
I have worked out what the problem was.
I have been setting up the Pi using VNC Viewer form by laptop and when trying to run calibration in this headless configuration it falls over as documented above.
Today I built a fresh image from the deb file and to to do this plugged in a monitor and keyboard to the Pi. After the install Pypilot calibration worked.
I then plugged my original SD card with the image I was having issues with (with the keyboard and monitor still attached) wo work out how best to transfer all my config data and discovered that the calibration program was working. To confirm that the VNC Viewer was the issue I then rebooted headless again and the problem re-occurred.
So I have a way forward in my setup as I am not running headless on the boat.
However there does appear to be a bug with the calibration program when running headless which may effect some users.
I have been setting up the Pi using VNC Viewer form by laptop and when trying to run calibration in this headless configuration it falls over as documented above.
Today I built a fresh image from the deb file and to to do this plugged in a monitor and keyboard to the Pi. After the install Pypilot calibration worked.
I then plugged my original SD card with the image I was having issues with (with the keyboard and monitor still attached) wo work out how best to transfer all my config data and discovered that the calibration program was working. To confirm that the VNC Viewer was the issue I then rebooted headless again and the problem re-occurred.
So I have a way forward in my setup as I am not running headless on the boat.
However there does appear to be a bug with the calibration program when running headless which may effect some users.