Ir transmitter

[kw123]

I have ssh port open (not 22. Using port mapping from xxx external to 22 internal)


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[kennybroh]

What about multiple displays?

[kw123]

have not tried that( 2 monitors) and the software might not be setup to do that..

it has ONE hdmi portend I have not tried to use an USB port to display anything..

if size is not that important you could use an android tablet for $30 and use it as an indigo frontend.

piBeacon can drive
- any HDMI display, any size
- smaller i2c /SPI (1... 5 inches) OLED and alike devices
(almost) any device type I could find, I tested.

piBeacon can show text, lines, images blinking, ovals, boxes, analog clock, digital clock, shifting left right up down of screens... .. ,... driven by indigo actions


Karl

[kennybroh]

Need some help. I unzipped the 12--09-2018 file and the resulting file was "pibeacon-2018-12-09.img.zip.cpgz". I put it in a subfolder of the desktop called "pi os". When I try to expand it onto the ssd here's what happens. I tried several different variations:

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KBF-Mac-Mini:~ KBF$ sudo dd bs=1m if=/Users/KBF/Desktop/pi_os of=/dev/rdisk2
dd: /Users/KBF/Desktop/pi_os: Is a directory
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000050 secs (0 bytes/sec)
KBF-Mac-Mini:~ KBF$ sudo dd bs=1m if=/Mac_Mini_HD/Users/KBF/Desktop/pi_os of=/dev/rdisk2
dd: /Mac_Mini_HD/Users/KBF/Desktop/pi_os: No such file or directory
KBF-Mac-Mini:~ KBF$ 

What am I doing wrong?

[kw123]

How do you unzip? Just click on the zip file in filer. That should do it.


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[kennybroh]

That’s what I did. And the unzipped file was the .cpgz file which I put in the “pi os” folder on the desktop.

[kw123]

When I unzip = click on it in filer i get
pibeacon-2018-11-09.img dec 9 2018 8.83 GB (the dates are bit screwed up -- 12 instead of 11, my fault when posting the file )

but unzipping pibeacon-2018-12-09.img.zip gives pibeacon-2018-11-09.img = 8GB.

don't know what you are doing wrong.

are you sure you completely downloaded the file?

also try the pibeacon-2018-04-12.img.zip file.

how big is the downloaded file?

Karl

[kennybroh]

I had a little eye operation yesterday so I'm just now getting back to this. I am downloading the 2108-4-12 file now. It is a 2.11gb file. I right clicked on it, and the "open with" option was Archiver. It created the same type of cpgz file, which was useless. So I went to the Mac store and downloaded "Decompressor" and when I used that, I got the img file of about 7.75gb.

So far so good.

Before I go any further, is there a difference between simply copying that file to the ssd and using the terminal commands?

[kennybroh]

Never mind. I realize creating a disk image is different from copying....

[kw123]

not right click open with ... just double click on zip file
OSX has everything you need

[kennybroh]

What I’m telling you is that was not the case. I did that three times and each time I got that other file. Only when I did what I said did I get an img file.

[kw123]

Which OS X version do you use?

I used std filer compress,.. uncompress should work just fine

I am at a loss.

Sorry for the trouble

Karl.



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[kennybroh]

First of all, certainly no need to apologize. I am very appreciative of the work you are doing and your responsiveness.

I'm running 10.10.5. What I was saying was for some reason either double clicking or right click/open did not properly uncompress the file. Only when I downloaded a separate decompress app did it work properly. But that did work, and resulted in transferring the files, at the end of which process a my micro sd card was renamed "boot" in finder. I'm about to put it into the pi and see if we are good from there.

[kennybroh]

I got the pi running and did the plugin config per your instructions. THe pi did not seem to reboot, and the device shows as disabled in the device list.

Ideas>?

[kennybroh]

Also this repeats in the log:

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Jan 31, 2019, 8:33:18 PM
   piBeacon                        fixDevProps: adding beacon from devices to self.beacons: 00:00:00:00:00:00  dev:Pi_0
   piBeacon                        fixConfig:  deleting beacon:00:00:00:00:00:00 {u'minSignalCutoff': -999, u'receivedSignals': [{'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}, {'rssi': -999, 'lastSignal': 0, 'distance': 99999}], u'showBeaconSymboluseErrorSize': u'1', 'showBeaconNickName': u'', u'PosZ': 0.0, u'PosX': 0.0, u'PosY': 0.0, u'signalDelta': 999, u'updateFING': 0, u'showBeaconSymbolColor': u'b', u'beaconTxPower': 999, u'note': u'Pi-0', u'expirationTime': 90.0, u'batteryLevel': '', u'status': u'expired', u'updateSignalValuesSeconds': 300.0, u'indigoId': 476124470, u'fastDownMinSignal': -999, u'fastDown': 0.0, u'created': u'2019-01-31 20:23:06', u'lastUp': 0, u'updateWindow': 0, u'showBeaconOnMap': u'0', u'ignore': 0, u'showBeaconSymbolAlpha': u'0.5', u'typeOfBeacon': u'rPI'}