Raspberry Pi work around for USB Lock-up problem

[Mike Frey]

I found in researching Richard Truran's post that uhubc will directly control the power to Raspberry Pi Model B+, Model 2 B, Model 3 B (port 2 only), see the following links:

https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=185898

https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl/issues/35

I downloaded the source for uhubctl, installed the required libusb-1.0-0-dev, `sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev`, and ran make without problems.

I removed the batteries from my weather station and plugged it into a USB port.

The command 'sudo ./uhubctl -i -p 2 -a 0' turns off the port and the weather station

The command 'sudo ./uhubctl -i -p 2 -a 1' turns on the port and the weather station

Next on to scripts to power off and on the usb port when it locks up.

Mike

[Igg]

That's interesting, thanks Mike for that ... one to reference.

Ian

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