Openpeak 7e - British Gas / OpenEnergy
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 9:18 pm
I picked up one of these on Ebay this week.
I have not yet let it have an Internet connection just to be sure that it does not find a remote update that breaks something (although it is possible that a previous owner has done that).
Anyway - it boot up into a British Gas branded Tango UI.
The About screen showed software version 28xxx (I did not write down the number and lost the telnet session that I had it in as well).
Booting from a USB image of SQPOS that was working fine on a Joggler did not work. Lights on the USB stick showed it being accessed but the screen stayed on Openpeak logo.
So rebooting with the shipped software/firmware and then plugging in a network cable (but without Internet access) I was able to telnet in with user root and no password.
After a bit of rummaging around I decided to use reflash tool.
Reflash tool booted fine (although I was using a different USB stick for that so I will probably have to retest).
I asked it to write SQPOS for OF1 (I know I should have chosen OF2).
It appeared to work - but subsequent reboot was stuck on Openpeak logo again.
So then I wrote SQPOS for OF2 ... reboot to Openpeak logo again.
So then I wrote Roobarb's variation on stock OS (30300) and this booted into Tango with lots of icons and they work (except if they ask for network access which I still have not given).
Then tried to boot SQPOS from USB ... stuck on OpenPeak again.
Tried reflash to SQPOS for OF2 ... stuck on OpenPeak again.
Reflash back to stock ... reboots without a problem.
So - why would stock work but SQPOS for OF2 not - when written back to device?
Over the years I have used many Jogglers both booting SQPOS from internal memort and from USB and all have (and still) worked fine.
Now with stock loaded I see in Settings/About ...
Firmware 8964 (boardrev: 3) [ID=25786]
I have not yet let it have an Internet connection just to be sure that it does not find a remote update that breaks something (although it is possible that a previous owner has done that).
Anyway - it boot up into a British Gas branded Tango UI.
The About screen showed software version 28xxx (I did not write down the number and lost the telnet session that I had it in as well).
Booting from a USB image of SQPOS that was working fine on a Joggler did not work. Lights on the USB stick showed it being accessed but the screen stayed on Openpeak logo.
So rebooting with the shipped software/firmware and then plugging in a network cable (but without Internet access) I was able to telnet in with user root and no password.
After a bit of rummaging around I decided to use reflash tool.
Reflash tool booted fine (although I was using a different USB stick for that so I will probably have to retest).
I asked it to write SQPOS for OF1 (I know I should have chosen OF2).
It appeared to work - but subsequent reboot was stuck on Openpeak logo again.
So then I wrote SQPOS for OF2 ... reboot to Openpeak logo again.
So then I wrote Roobarb's variation on stock OS (30300) and this booted into Tango with lots of icons and they work (except if they ask for network access which I still have not given).
Then tried to boot SQPOS from USB ... stuck on OpenPeak again.
Tried reflash to SQPOS for OF2 ... stuck on OpenPeak again.
Reflash back to stock ... reboots without a problem.
So - why would stock work but SQPOS for OF2 not - when written back to device?
Over the years I have used many Jogglers both booting SQPOS from internal memort and from USB and all have (and still) worked fine.
Now with stock loaded I see in Settings/About ...
Firmware 8964 (boardrev: 3) [ID=25786]