Open nordfalk opened 11 months ago
Thank you SO MUCH for this post!! I was going crazy trying to get my code to upload to the mBot! I was literally about to return the controller since it was absolutely unusable. This solved it for me though! I use the Linux Mint 21.3 (an Ubuntu Jammy fork). I would never have figured this out on my own. I assume many others have benefited from this without posting. But it's been 5 months since nordfalk posted this, and the relevant mBot instructions STILL haven't been updated. This is very disappointing, and makes me think twice before making other purchases from makeblock.
Please do some effort to update your web page and documentation. As a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS user I have wasted much time trying to follow incomplete installation instructions.
For example, on https://www.mblock.cc/en/download/mlink/ there is just a .deb file, but no mention whatsoefter that you have to run
sudo mblock-mlink start
to actually start it.Even then, it isnt working, as by default some udev rules are installed of a device for braille, that uses the same USB id. So you have to follow https://forum.makeblock.com/t/not-recognize-mbot-in-gnu-linux-with-mlink/20113 and remove that rule
sudo mv /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-brltty.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-brltty.rules.disabled
I wonder if you really want to actually have Linux support? If so (which I really really home!), please put some hours of effort in testing on newer major Linuxes and updating the documentation so we Linux users can get going relatively easy :pray: :pray: :pray: