Moodlebox connection issues

Duke

Hello, I have the 8gb Raspberry Pi and have flashed Moodlebox onto a microSD card (32gb) and have tried using both Windows and Mac (Etcher).
I can see the Moodlebox and can access the Moodle.
When I upload a course I keep getting a pesky 'Cant connect to Server' message. I've tried various wi-fi options and can't get rid of it and fails each time. I did notice a DNS error when I first started to play around with it when connected to a monitor, but I mainly use it headless now.
Any help would be much appreciated.

krause

Duke
I also get the error message for dnsmasq but this system service also seems to be okay. Try the following terminal command sudo systemctl status dnsmasq.service and you will see that the service is running. Perhaps it‘s a timeout problem when showing this error during the system start. I don‘t know.

The copy of the MoodleBox image seems to be okay when the MoodleBox starts up and shows the Moodle page. You are connected with the MoodleBox wifi, you can open the Moodle page and you can login with the moodlebox user.

I ca‘t reproduce your problem when restoring a course backup on the MoodleBox. I did a course backup in one of my Moodle sites, downloaded the mbz file to my device and restored it in the MoodleBox. The MoodleBox must have installed all Moodle plugins which are used in the course you take. I did my test with MoodleBox 4.2.0, a Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB) and a microSD card with 32 GB.

Duke

krause Hello Krause, thank you for the reply. I tried MoodleBox 4.2.0 as I read that fixed some connection issues. But now the MoodleBox site can't be reached, so can't access Moodle at all. I'll try 3.12 and see if I have better luck with that.
Please excuse my ignorance, but where do you enter the terminal commands? I'm familiar with using Terminal (mac user), but I'll use MoodleBox on Windows so I'm assuming there is somewhere within MoodleBox where you can use the command line?
Your comment about plug-ins must be the same is interesting - I'll look further into that. I would assume though that the error would be more like 'can't upload the course' rather than 'cant connect to server'.

I'm using Raspberry Pi 8Gb with 32Gb Micro SD. I had it running with 4.1 but failed with 4.2.

krause

Duke
I just tested it once more. I copied a microSD card from the MoodleBox 4.2.0 image. And I put it into my Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB) ... I don't have one with 8GB. I started the Raspberry Pi. After some seconds the system booted and the MoodleBox wifi came up. I connected to the wifi and opened the url http://moodlebox.home in my browser. Not any problem!

There is more than one possibility to open the terminal https://moodlebox.net/en/help/command-line-connection/. You wrote that you first started your MoodleBox with a Monitor ... connect also an usb keyboard to your MoodleBox and log in ... the user is moodlebox and the password is Moodlebox4$.

When your connected device is a computer with macOS or Linux then you should use the normal terminal app ... ssh moodlebox@moodlebox.home and then the password. With a Windows computer you need to install a program like Putty https://www.putty.org. For Android and iOS devices I like to use the Termius app https://termius.com. You only need the basic version. It's free and there are no adds. It works fine!

To install plugins in your MoodleBox go to http://moodlebox.home/admin/tool/installaddon/index.php

I hope this will help!

Ralf

Duke

krause Thank you krause! That makes perfect sense. 😀 I'll try another MicroSD card.
I'll go the Mac OSX and terminal route.