Hi, I have a number of Audiomoths both 1.1.0 and 1.2.0. One of my 1.1.0 Audiomoths is not working. When I plug it in to the USB, it appears to Flash (and version 1.10.1 shows up as being on the device), the time can be set, and I can configure the device. However, when I eject the Audiomoth and switch it to custom (or to default) no lights flash and no recordings are made. I have tried adding new batteries, different brands of batteries, and I have tried different USB cables (always ones that came with the Audiomoths) and have tried new sd cards (and have reformatted old ones to exFAT). Nothing I have tried works. Any suggestions?
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Audiomoth flashes and configures, but does not record
Audiomoth flashes and configures, but does not record
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Hi Alex,
Thanks for responding so quickly. These devices were purchased in a hydromoth group buy in the fall of 2022 and only used for testing purposes before this deployment, but the devices previously recorded files as configured. I use the AudioMoth time app to configure the time and then use set to local in the config-app. I am currently in Zanzibar, so it is adding +3 hours to UTC. When I reconfigured the time on one of the hydromoths, I got an error message that I haven't seen before which says: "The clock on the connected AudioMoth seems to be running fast. This could be a hardware problem."but I think it may have been because I had both the time and config apps open at the same time. Despite this error message, the time does appear to count up at the correct rate for all 3 devices and is steadily counting up in time with my laptop clock. When I unplug the devices and plug them back in, all are still showing the correct time in the config app, but not showing any of the other settings. When switched to either default or custom on one device, there is one brief red light with a short pause followed by a constant flashing red light, the 2nd and 3rd devices both show a slow green flashing light in custom mode and one long red followed by rapid red blinking light in default mode. The hydromoth that didn't record anything at all is the one that flashes red in both default and custom modes. All 3 hydromoths have a SanDisk Extreme 64GB SD card and are using rechargeable Panasonic eneloop Ni-Mh AA batteries (photos attached). I am also attaching the config.txt files which show they were all configured to record 240 files per day - please note that two of the config.txt file dates show jan 1 2098 and jan 4 2098.
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I am having the exact same problem, I was able to flash and configure three 1.0.0 hydromoths running version 1.10.1, but after setting them to record in custom mode, two didn't record anything at all, and one recorded a short wav file and reset the date to Jan 1, 2098. None of them recorded at the times or lengths preset in the configuration. When I plug in one audio moth it shows 19:18:44 04/01/1970 UTC, 19:28:38 04/01/1970, and one that didn't record does show the accurate UTC timecode 7:16:03. 27/09/2024. Recording in default mode works, but its not activating in custom mode even though the red light was on and the batteries are all still charged.
Hi,
If there are no lights at all when you switch to CUSTOM or DEFAULT it sounds like a power problem and the AudioMoth is not running on the battery after being unplugged. When you plug the AudioMoth back in does it still retain the previous time that you set or has it reverted to 00:00:00 01/01/1970? Alex