My SD Card died

[mihalski]

I was able to recover the config.txt as once in a few dozen times the PC could read the card. However, I am unable to update the config on the new card. Now that I’ve installed the new SD card it seems that I cannot delete, upload/overwrite, edit, save or do ANYTHING to modify the config.txt unless I use the web UI.

Is the ONLY way to change the config.txt directly to take out the SD card and do so on a computer?

If I try to use the ACE editor I get this when trying to save ERROR[403]:

[overeasy]

This post describes how to recover your config file and how to upload it to a new card.

Building a new SDcard

It can become necessary to build a new SDcard. This post describes how to do that. IoTaWatt uses a microSD card, formatted to FAT32. New units use a 8GB level 10 card. Any card 4GB-32GB level 4 or 10 will work fine. Obtain a new microSD card or reformat an old card to FAT32. Download the SD files from github SD directory If using windows, this link will downlod the files into a .zip file. Copy the files to the root of the SDcard. If you were able to salvage the config.txt file from the ol…

[mihalski]

I did all that but my problem surfaced when I wanted to edit the config.txt. Turned out it was impossible. Cannot recover an existing config unless you remove the card and copy it.

[overeasy]

Well, yes you can, but removing the card isn’t that hard and if it works for you….