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I managed to get the agent working on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, and also got it to run automatically on startup after trying a bunch of things. Here are the details:

Clean install of Raspberry Pi with Desktop from the official Raspberry Pi web site: https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/

I used the Raspberry Pi imager on Ubuntu 16.04 with a 16 GB microSD card

Downloaded the agent and created the agentid file per instructions

Moved the agentid file to /etc

Moved the agent binary to /usr/sbin

Set executable permissions on the agent binary

Ran the agent binary manually to verify connectivity

Now for the automatic run on startup. Even though my RPi will be running all the time, I wanted to ensure the agent would run on startup in case of a reboot or power outage. I tried several things, including crontab and the rc.local file, but ultimately got it to work by adding the following line to the /etc/rc.local file before the exit 0:

(sleep 10;/usr/sbin/agentfilename)&

I had tried it without the "sleep 10" before and it didn't work. I searched the internet for running tasks on RPi startup and came across this page:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50495330/rpi-python-script-fails-to-run-from-etc-rc-local-crontab-systemd

The page refers to a python script but the situation is similar. Adding the sleep command allows the RPi to wait until other things have loaded before trying to run the agent. The number of seconds may change depending on your RPi performance, so it may take some experimenting to get it to work. But with that added to the rc.local file, the agent runs automatically after every reboot

Thanks again for your assistance. I tried a bunch of different combinations and I finally got it to work. It turns out my OCP profile had a missing last name. After I filled it in I passed the Let Us Know page and can now see the agent page. On the Update Account page, the last name field wasn't marked as required so I left it blank before, and I think that was causing the looping to occur.

The form is cut off because I wanted to keep the images smaller for posting on the forum, so I selected the relevant portions of the screen.

Yes, my email on the forum is the same on OCP. If you're having trouble locating it I can DM you additional details. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the quick reply. I filled out the three fields and submitted, receive a message at the top that says "Thank you for your time" and the form appears again below it. So I filled it out again and submitted again and got the same message and empty form. Screenshots below:

I just registered an account and verified it by email, but when I try to login I keep getting redirected to the Let Us Know page (https://app.outagesio.com/site/letUsKnow). I fill in the three fields and click Send, but it just keeps bringing me back to the page to fill out the fields again. I also tried using different browsers and different operating systems but get the same result. Anyone else experience this?