I recently purchased a RPi5 from CanaKit. It is 8GB with aluminum case.
My use for this is to manage astronomical equipment in my back yard. I run a 64-bit Linux-based system called AstroArch that was made for the Pi. (ARM binaries). I power up the Pi and the astronomical equipment, log in via a noVNC setup, and start the astronomical software. Things work smoothly, no errors in the logs - until they don't. Might be ten minutes. Might be two hours. The WiFi connection becomes dead as a doornail. Nothing to do for it but restart the Pi - at which point the WiFi becomes fully functional again.
I should say that my WiFi connection is not ideal. I use a Google Nest router with a secondary access point. The access point sits near a window, about 30 ft from the Pi, with a direct line of sight between them. But the fact that once the Pi is rebooted, connection is established as soon as the boot sequence is complete tends to lend suspicion to the Pi, or maybe the operating system running on it, rather than the network.
Is this a known issue? I am sorely tempted to give up on the Pi altogether and buy some dedicated astronomical equipment that comes with external wifi antennas.
My use for this is to manage astronomical equipment in my back yard. I run a 64-bit Linux-based system called AstroArch that was made for the Pi. (ARM binaries). I power up the Pi and the astronomical equipment, log in via a noVNC setup, and start the astronomical software. Things work smoothly, no errors in the logs - until they don't. Might be ten minutes. Might be two hours. The WiFi connection becomes dead as a doornail. Nothing to do for it but restart the Pi - at which point the WiFi becomes fully functional again.
I should say that my WiFi connection is not ideal. I use a Google Nest router with a secondary access point. The access point sits near a window, about 30 ft from the Pi, with a direct line of sight between them. But the fact that once the Pi is rebooted, connection is established as soon as the boot sequence is complete tends to lend suspicion to the Pi, or maybe the operating system running on it, rather than the network.
Is this a known issue? I am sorely tempted to give up on the Pi altogether and buy some dedicated astronomical equipment that comes with external wifi antennas.
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