[Coco] DriveWire 4 and Linux serial port

[Tormod Volden]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Tormod Volden wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
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>>> Now, since I have multiple serial ports on the Linux machine, I would still need a way to tell it which one to use. I expect the GUI lets me select, but I do not have access to the GUI.
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>> You can run the server on the RPi and the GUI on another machine and
>> configure it from there.
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> Yeah, that's what I ended up doing, and I formatted my first /x0 in-memory image. I tried to get X running on the PI first, but I don't have a mouse there, and couldn't use any of the menus in the DW app. Ugh.
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> It's a huge hassle to get VNC and all the stuff installed just to set a serial port. I spent an hour Googling and trying to resolve issues because the Pi Linux has evolved a bit since most of the answers were written. I also had to do a few more installs just to make the GUI able to run. So many steps! Linux is a monster.

Maybe a misunderstanding here. The DW4 GUI (for instance running on a
Windows machine) can remotely configure a DW4 server that is running
on your RPi using its own remote protocol. No need for VNC or X11 on
the RPi. Just specify the IP address of the RPi in the DW4 GUI.

Tormod


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> I want to be able to show folks how to install a Pi image, install Java and DW, edit some simple things, then have it running.
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> Hopefully it is possible.
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>                 -- A