Un-POTATO : Bring-up Instructions

Current Drop - up7.img.tar.gz

Image Folder Link - https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1oX8cWxNuCtGcoUIjcDbEBjc49r0hVMqJ

  This drop needs a bit of maintenance.

  1. After it powers up and responds to pings (drizzle.local) 
  2. Open putty and get inside the cow.
  3. Type the following:
    sudo systemctl disable samba.service
    sudo systemctl disable smbd.service
    sudo apt-get purge bluez -y
    sudo apt-get autoclean
    sugo apt-get autoremove

-- Some of the extraneous stuff did not get cleaned up by the build. This may or may not affect the sw. We just do not want to spoil the test.

This build should:

  1. Make device available at drizzle.local for ping, putty and drizzle.local:3030 for web access
  2. Should put the signature application data folder in your home directory (this version will say drizzleTV.Appdata
  3. Should show IP address and link to the cloud folder in the web menu

Next drop scheduled for some time in the second half of next week.

PHASE-1: The Un-POTATO (Drizzle-TV software/hardware) Our First Step

  Raspberry Pi-0W running Raspbian OS 
+ DrizzleTV SW

DrizzleTV Software - Developed by DRZL. It does one-way synch to the HDMI port and does NOT work via the USB as needed by TLB

1. DrizzleTV Drop on Google-drive - 12.31.2020

  • This is a disk image file. Burn it to a flash SD card that’s 8GB or larger

Release Notes for 12.31.2020 Drop Hardware - Need a Raspy Pi-0W in FLIRC case and a 32 GB micro-sd card Instructions:

  1. Download the image from the link above and burn it into a fresh SD card.
  2. Note that the image is less than 4GB - but on first bootup in the Raspy it will self-expand to fill the flash-disk (all 32GB of it if that’s what you are using)

Functionality

  1. This drop has the WiFi passwwords for ECR and AC household - so expected to come up live on WiFi

  2. The DrizzleTV announces itself as on Bonjour. You should be able to ping the device as ONE of the following three commands:

     ping drizzle
 ping drizzle.local
 ping drizzle.lan

    The variations are due to the nature of Windows/Mac software versions and flags etc. Try all three.

What we want to achieve (Tests to do, AC and ECR)

  1. Power up the little bugger. Remember the USB cable goes into the middle port.

  2. Give it couple of minutes to sort itself out.

  3. ping the device using the instructions above

  4. Open putty to whatever combination name the PING showed to be valid above

  5. Log in using the following credentials:

     username: shredderbot
 password: billabong

  6. You are now inside the cow! Congratulations and enjoy the achievement.

Do the following IF you are feeling adventurous

  1. Do the following to manually start the drizzle-tv stub as follows:

     cd 
 cd drizzle-tv
 npm start

    The screen should print out a bunch of stuff endint with an ‘OK’

  2. You can now the web browser from your PC or MAC by typing in - http://drizzle:3030 And if all is well you’ll see the green gator splash screen!

Enjoy and wait for the first POTATO to drop!