Stuck on CLI on latest Cumulusmx Raspberry Pi image

[Ozjack]

Hi Guys,
Completely novice Raspberry Pi user here.
I have installed the latest Cumulusmx Raspberry Pi Image on to a brand new Raspberry Pi 4.
It boots to: “cumulusmx login:” and I cannot see a way to get back to the GUI.
I have tried to alter the raspi-config file to boot to the Pi GUI but it tells me to install "lightdm". This only results in telling me to try “sudo apt-update” or “—fix-missing” neither of which work.
Searches for a fix have proved fruitless. Doesn’t appear to be much information on this latest Pi image with the latest CumulusMX v4.2.1 b4043.
How do I exit CLI back to GUI?
Thanks.

[mcrossley]

I haven't looked at the images for a while but Cumulus should be running as a service so there should be nothing on the command line. The prebuilt image is Raspbian Lite, so does not have a GUI.

[ConligWX]

Hi Guys,
It boots to: “cumulusmx login:” and I cannot see a way to get back to the GUI.

so you want the setup/console view of CumulusMX?

use your web browser.

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8998/index.html

replace the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your ip address to where cumulus is running from.

btw 8998 port is the default unless you have changed it.

[Ozjack]

Yes that is what I am trying to do. Get to the browser and CumulusMX dashboard settings.
Is this done on a PC (in my case an iMac) and not the Raspberry Pi?

[PaulMy]

Yes that is what I am trying to do. Get to the browser and CumulusMX dashboard settings.
Is this done on a PC (in my case an iMac) and not the Raspberry Pi?

You access the CMX main screen - Dashboard, Charts, Settings, etc. from any browser on your local network - i.e. PC/Mac/Pi
If the browser is on the same PC/Mac/Pi computer where CMX is installed, then either http://localhost:8998 (or just localhost:8998) or pcipaddress:8998
If browser is on another computer from where CMX is installed then pcipaddress:8998

Port 8998 is the CMX default when you run CumulusMX.exe, and If you run more than one instance of CMX you would run it with another port i.e. \CumulusMX\CumulusMX.exe -port 899x (8991 or 8992, etc.) and then you would use that port as part of the browser url localhost:899x or ipaddress:899x.

Enjoy,
Paul

[SamiS]

Yes that is what I am trying to do. Get to the browser and CumulusMX dashboard settings.
Is this done on a PC (in my case an iMac) and not the Raspberry Pi?

The short and simple answer: Yes.

As Mark said earlier, the prebuilt image is built on Raspbian lite that does not not have a local gui. So you must access the dashboard from another computer, tablet, cellphone etc that is connected to the same network than the raspberry.

If you don’t know the ip address of the raspberry, you can get it from the Pi commandline by logging in and running command ifconfig

To clarify a bit PaulMy’s answer (that is correct itself), the address you want to go to with your iMac is

http://a.b.c.d:8998

where you replace a.b.c.d with your Raspberry’s ip address. Some browsers work without the http:// prefix, but not all.

—
Sami

[Ozjack]

I finally managed to access the dashboard by going back to the drawing board and starting again.
When using the Pi Imager the host can bet set up there. They suggest to set hostname as "raspberrypi.local" which I did.
I then used raspberrypi.local:8998 and was into the dashboard.
I now have the website running apart from the gauges. I originally had trouble with the gauges when running MX on my iMac but managed to solve in by changing the FTP settings.

[freddie]

The hostname in the downloadable image is set to "cumulusmx", isn't it? Regardless, you can always use the IP address as previously instructed.

Interface gauges and FTP are totally unrelated.

[Ozjack]

I tried both localhost:8998 and 127.0.1.1:8998 several times on iMac as well as on a MacBook and iPad with no success but raspberrypi.local:8998 did work.
I then tried with the Raspberry Pi IP address and that also worked. Go figure!

[broadstairs]

Well using 127.0.1.1:8998 is expected to fail always. It ONLY works if the server is running on that PC or tablet, so if your RPi had a GUI and you ran a browser on it then it would work on the RPi but not on anything else. So you have to use the actual IP address of the RPi. The 127.0.*.* is the loopback address and so only ever refers to the PC it is issued on!

Stuart

[ConligWX]

I tried both localhost:8998 and 127.0.1.1:8998 several times on iMac as well as on a MacBook and iPad with no success but raspberrypi.local:8998 did work.
I then tried with the Raspberry Pi IP address and that also worked. Go figure!

best just using the ip of the raspi with 8998 on the end.

example:
http://192.168.1.50:8998

Your raspberry pi will probably have a different IP that that however. remember if cmx is not running (service stopped) then you wont connect to port 8998 at all.