Pi Zero 2 W: Setup Part 2

I noticed my Pi Zero 2 W was totally unresponsive. I didn't want to lug a monitor up to the loft room where it was installed so I pulled it and brought it down to my office. After booting I could not find any reason in the logs to explain what had happened.

I decided this was a good time to do a software update but unfortunately the update got stuck at running the locale generation. On searching this turned out to be a known problem. After many attempts to generate a locale I decided to reinstall. Initially this seemed like a really good opportunity to learn Ansible but on reviewing some tutorials and guides I changed my mind as I don't have so many SBCs to make it worthwhile at this time. Maybe later.

I didn't have much luck installing the latest Debian Bookworm based Raspberry Pi OS as the update got stuck again, at least not on locale this time. I managed to get the Lite version installed which is fine as this Pi is used headless.

I took the opportunity to install Uptime Kuma as a docker image on my NAS and added both my Pi-hole computers with both a ping monitor and a DNS monitor. As luck would have it, the next day my ISP had an outage and I could easily see that my homelab was up but the internet was down.

Overall I call that progress.

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