Mods needed for LCA bot

[ajfisher]

These were the mods I noted as I was building out a clean install for the LCA SimpleBot:

• WPA config assumes a wifi connection. I was building on cabled network and it wouldn't let me skip (got past it but might be worth making it skippable).
• I ran the PiLeven script per here to make ttyS99 available: http://www.freetronics.com/pages/pileven-getting-started-guide#.VHAyVXWUfrc
• I also installed inotool (based on install notes here: https://github.com/amperka/ino#installation) as that seems to build things really well from the testing I've done and makes good guesses as to boards etc. (It also requires picocom).

In

https://github.com/alecthegeek/CCHS_Raspian_for_IoT/blob/master/runme2nd#L229-L233

You're doing a global install of johnny-five etc. This has some known issues in terms of version management in moving node modules and it also makes it much harder to run the examples (as they aren't in a project folder). You get a warning about this in the script output:

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/0.10.33"

I'd remove these as they can all be installed in user space very easily. If you keep them then

https://github.com/alecthegeek/CCHS_Raspian_for_IoT/blob/master/runme2nd#L233

Needs to go to raspi-io which is the package.

Once we deploy the LCA SB code it will be as simple as a git clone && node install so that should be cool for that side and pull in all the other package deps anyway.

Some other things I installed:

• pip (python package manager) apt-get python-pip && pip install -U pip
• virtualenv (python sandboxed environments) pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper

[alecthegeek]

NB Installing minicom instead of picocom

[ajfisher]

Does that work with inotool? They had a dependency of picocom on their docs was all...

On Sun Nov 23 2014 at 19:29:16 Alec Clews notifications@github.com wrote:

NB Installing minicom instead of picocom

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/alecthegeek/CCHS_Raspian_for_IoT/issues/12#issuecomment-64110605 .

[alecthegeek]

from reading docs they seem "equivalent", i.e. serial terminal emulation. Should be able to use putty as well I assume :-)

I'll test

[alecthegeek]

All done,

Still needs more tesing