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Troubleshooting

Douglas Gillespie edited this page Jul 23, 2026 · 9 revisions

Troubleshooting

Buttons are grey

Problems with sightings number

Problems with recording status

Buttons are grey

Grey buttons indicate that the app cannot connect to the MQTT broker on the Logger laptop. There are three possible reasons for this:

  1. The app and / or laptop are not correctly connected to the same network. Check the network setup paying particular attention to the ip address and port settings in the app, the android device network selection, and make sure mobile data is off.
  2. The MQTT broker is not running on the PAMGuard laptop
  3. The MQTT broker is incorrectly configured and is not accepting connections from remote devices

Sighting number not showing or not increasing

It's most likely that the buttons are now green. I they are grey, see above. Usually, this indicates that the app has successfully connected to the MQTT broker, but has failed to communicate via the broker, with PAMGuard. Check PAMGuard is running and correctly configured, and that PAMGuard is correctly connected to the broker. (need a help page on this). If it's still not working, then you may have a mismatch between the name of your platform and the platform names that the PAMGuard buttons and forms are expecting.

Recording times not updating

As for the sightings numbers, this indicates that the app is correctly connected to the broker, but is unable to get data from PAMGuard recorder.

Check recorder module is in place

Check platform name is showing in side bar

try starting a recording manually from PAMGuard to see what happens.

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