Boots to rainbow image

[timinski]

Trying to install Rasplex on a Pi3 with HifiBerry Dac+ board. No success. Always boots to a rainbow blurry image on the centre of the display and a 1/4 width black section on right and left sides.

Tried several times with different SD cards. Used the Linux installer.

• RasPlex-1.6.2.123-e23a7eef-RPi.arm.img
• GetRasplex-debian64.1.0.1.bin
• Lubuntu 16.04

Would love to get this working as Plex Media Player is a no-go due to inability to get RPi3 WiFi to connect.

[g1t-dlanor]

Have you tried RasPlex with the HifiBerry board removed ?
I've used RasPlex 1.6.2 on my own RPi3, and so have many others, so it should work for you as well.
I recommend trying it again with the most recent RasPlex release (currently 1.7.1), and this time first try it without the HifiBerry board. And if that works then power off and mount the board for another attempt.

Possibly there is some interaction with that board which prevents proper initialization, so it might work better if initialization is done before mounting the board.

Btw: Also remember to edit your "config.txt" file accordingly when switching between attempts with and without the HifiBerry board, so that the proper dtoverlay driver is activated when the board is to be used (and only then).

[PaulvdDool]

I keep getting the rainbow screen also.
I'm trying to install Rasplek 1.8.0 on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, using the Rasplex Installer for Mac OS.
First I made sure I have Raspberry Pi2 selected.
Downloading the image with the Rasplex installer doesn't work in Step 2. In Terminal an "SSL handshake failed" error shows. So I downloaded the image from Github and selected the file locally.
This doesn't give any errors.
Finder shows the SD card named "OPENELEC".
All seems fine, but my TV only shows the rainbow screen so I'm guessing the SD card is not able to correctly boot Rasplex.
The SD is a class 10 Micro SD with 8GB. It's fairly new an is able run LIBREELEC so I'm pretty sure it's not corrupted.

[Risca]

Which image did you download from GitHub? The image should have the .img.gz file ending.

[timinski]

@PaulvdDool & @Risca
Did you manage to get Rasplex to install? I tried on a Pi3 B+also and just get flashing green LED (4 x long, 4 x short) on the board. No IP address, no image, nada. Tried many many things to resolve the issue.

I finally gave up (still interested if you got it to work) and investigated Kodi + Plex plugin. It is working quite well vis-a-vis audio and video. The last issue I cannot resolve however is how to enable flinging of meda to the Pi. No matter what I do, I cannot get the Pi3B+ player visable as a target from either Plex web or Plex Android.

[jmpindado]

Hi, I have same issue. I have Raspberry Pi3 B+ model. I downloaded the image: RasPlex-1.8.0.148-573b6d73-RPi2.arm.img.gz, used the rasplex windows installer and I get the rainbow screen. I then formatted again the SD card, and used the Win32DiskImager to flash the SD card. Same result.
I formatted again and copied the raspbian stretch image. With this image Raspberry boots perfectly!. So, it seems it ot due to the SD card.
Does anybody have any idea to go on? Thks

[Risca]

The RasPlex images are gzip-compressed, so flashing them with win32diskimager won't work unless you unpack the image first.
Likewise, any other image not compressed with gzip will not be possible to flash with the RasPlex installer.

[Risca]

Formatting the SD card doesn't have any impact since the installer writes the image (including partition tables) directly to the SD card