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Thumby / Thumby not booting properly/unresponsive on boot

« Last post by misterwaztaken on January 17, 2024, 11:28:42 AM »

I've tried everything that is listed in the Thumby FAQ related to my issue.

I received a Thumby last year for Christmas, and have had no issues whatsoever with it, up until last Saturday, when it was having issues when turning it on. I can confirm that the Thumby is charged, as I charged it last night, and the indicator tells me that it's charged (I verified this by unplugging and plugging it back in after charged.)

Sometimes, the Thumby device turns on, displays the TinyCircuits logo and freezes, it displays the TinyCircuits logo, and in the middle of the scroll animation from TinyCircuits to Thumby logo, it freezes, it also sometimes lets me see the whole thing up to the point where it displays the Thumby logo and the arrow selecting the Start entry flash for a few seconds then freeze, or it doesnt freeze, until user input is given. It also most times doesn't show anything at all (either it froze before the TinyCircuits logo could display, or it didn't boot properly.)

I plugged it into my computer this morning via a USB cable (WITH DATA TRANSFER CAPABILITIES) and I tried to access it through Chrome via WebUSB. This did not work, and I looked at the FAQ to see if there was anything. I tried giving it the firmware file as the FAQ suggested. RPI-RP2 mounted to the computer, I put it in there, and it unmounted and rebooted, and then remounted as RPI-RP2. So obviously, that's not working either.

I'm hoping I can find another way to restore the Thumby firmware, but I've ran out of ideas. I've installed only a couple of games beside the default games that came with it. Please help!

- Alex

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Thumby / Re: Background art resources

« Last post by nojeg58409 on January 17, 2024, 03:27:30 AM »

Hello, I'm new and want to stay here to learn more. I'm new to Python and I find it really complicated

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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Re: My TinyTV 2 experience thus far:

« Last post by SeanSIMPLETHINGS on January 15, 2024, 09:32:37 AM »

Do you have a email address I could send a file? I started with a recording of MTV from the 90's that was 3 hours and 40 minutes long, I edited it in several increments (of about 30 minutes ) and found that as long as the video was less than 2 hours the random start time worked. Past that it always started at the beginning.

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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Re: My TinyTV 2 experience thus far:

« Last post by Ben Rose on January 11, 2024, 05:06:09 PM »

Thanks for all the feedback! Glad you like it overall but sorry about the SD card failure! We'd replace it if you like but sounds like you're past that.

We had one other post about some videos starting at the beginning but that user said 8 hour videos worked, but 10h+ did not, so I didn't put it too high up our list- if you have a shorter video that doesn't, any way you could send that our way? I'll test it here and see if I can reproduce the issue. We should be able to get it fixed up.

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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Re: Some videos start from beginning, some from random. How to make all random?

« Last post by Ben Rose on January 11, 2024, 04:59:01 PM »

What I think you're seeing is the 'live' video playback where each channel is always 'playing' on loop- try updating to the latest firmware if you haven't already, and turn off the Live Video and Random Start Time settings on the settings page. Videos should start at the beginning every time then, let me know.

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General Discussion / Re: TinyTV reading glitched files

« Last post by benformati on January 11, 2024, 02:17:31 AM »

On my tinytv DIY kit, I am seeing problems with videos that are glitched and have static in them.
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New Product Ideas / Tiny "Retro Cable Box" for CRT televisions.

« Last post by SeanSIMPLETHINGS on January 10, 2024, 07:12:25 PM »

I have set up a few 13 inch CRT  televisions as novelty or decor items for my friends. I outfit them with an analog TV converter box with a USB media player. They play old video footage on USB.

The Tiny TV style player would be so much better for these things. Loading up a bank of retro "cable" channels, Startup and go with no menu diving (the menus the analog converters have are difficult to view on small CRT's anyway) and having the channel flipping action like the Tiny TV has would be awesome & nostalgic. My old analog converters work like a media player rather than a retro cable box.

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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Re: Video limit , video size, and video card size in tiny tv2

« Last post by SeanSIMPLETHINGS on January 10, 2024, 06:00:29 PM »

Mine came with a generic 8gb card. I corrupted mine and replaced it with a 64gb Sandisk.

I downloaded long MTV recordings from the internet archive VHS vault and edited them down multiple times. I think this thing will play very long videos, but the random start time channel flipping feature (it makes sense when you use it) only seems to work up to 2 hours long. Longer than that and my videos always start at the beginning.

I'm running the latest firmware. You update the device on this site under update via your browser.

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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Video limit , video size, and video card size in tiny tv2

« Last post by mazerate on January 10, 2024, 07:28:20 AM »

LOL My TV is in transit from the USA to Canada .... so I have some time to get my videos ready. I have a flea circus and flea and insect museum, and will use the Tiny TV to promote our show..... very fitting!

Long and short, I am converting videos to AVI files.

I searched and can not fond info...
A) What is the video card limit on the Tiny TV2 (how many GB or MB
B) Is there a limit to how many videos can be loaded on the TV at any time/ size of each video?

I will send back a video of the item in use....wish I found this years ago!

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Thumby / Re: Doom

« Last post by AncientJames on January 09, 2024, 12:33:12 AM »

I updated the release so it's now a single install file.

Put the Thumby in BOOTSEL mode and copy thumby-doom.uf2 to it.