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I just finished a tutorial for Adafruit on how to setup a Raspberry Pi to wirelessly relay commands from Easel running on my computer to the X-Carve. I added automatic power control so the X-Carve power supply is turned on when Easel opens on my laptop, and turned off when Easel is closed.
Not sure if people are interested in this, but it seems to work nicely for me. Please let me know if it works out for you if you decide to give it a shot.
@AngusMcleod ah. i’ve only tested it on Debian, OS X, and Windows. i’m guessing there is something weird with the version of arp that comes with slackware.
@AngusMcleod that package is intended for new linux users, and installs some helpful utils, including stuff like mDNS and the latest stable Node.js which are required for the xcarve-server Pi project. the command below should get rid of everything if you don’t want to setup the Raspberry Pi X-Carve proxy:
I ordered my kit to go wireless from Adafruit earlier this week. @ToddTreece - glad to see you are on here. This is my first time with Pi - I’m sure I will have a question or three!
@ToddTreece - I’ve got my pi kit but the Pi Finder page in your tutorial doesn’t have a Mac link.
I did see the note at the bottom of the overview page pointing to this page, and it connects to my pi, but when I paste ssh pi@ip into terminal, it asks for the pi’s password. I found the default password in my pi’s instructions, along with the instruction to open a graphical interface by entering startx, but all that does is return some build info and at the end says FATAL: Module g2d_23 not found.
Do you have a link for a Mac-friendly version of your Pin finder?
Edit…I found this page and was able to get into the occidentalis.txt and enter in my pi’s name & network name/password, but how do I save that info & move on? I assume it was WriteOut or just Exit, but neither of those commands do anything for me and it just sits showing my network info.
You shouldn’t need to start the X windows environment (startx) for my tutorial. Everything is done through the terminal. Let me know if that doesn’t clear things up.
Hi @ToddTreece hope you can guide me here. I am just in the process of completing this set up, following the instructions from learn.adafruit.com, however I do not get to connect to Easel as expected.
Now, when installing node.js I seem to run into an issue. even though I chose v.0.12.7 from this link Node.js (windows) and controlpanel displays the correct version, I do get the version v0.12.6 when checking with the comand node -v in the terminal.
I went ahead and continue with the pocess however i noticed the following warning when running this command: npm install -g forever xcarve-proxy.
I think this might be related to the nodejs issue above and probably is preventing the proper connection to Easel however I have no clue if that is in fact the case.
Easel app was uninstalled from the computer as per the instruction.
Would you mind to share some advise on how to overcome this hurtle… Disclaimer: My programing skills are extremely limited.
Hi @ToddTreece,
I am having trouble with the install on my Pi2 running Jessie. nodejs is 4.2.1 not 0.12.6 but I am getting a lot of errors at the end of the install.
How do I install this? Do I need to go back to an earlier nodejs?
Well, I went through all the installations and didn’t encounter any problems… Except both Safari and Chrome are showing the “You need to download the driver” page on Easel. Is there a way of verifying whether I have everything configured correctly?
I need to rebuild my X-Carve’s Pi, so I’ll try running through the tutorial with the latest Raspbian Jessie, and will update things as needed. I’ll report back soon.
Is there any progress on this? I would like to get this working and have both sides installed to the versions specified. I suspect that easel has changed so this proxy won’t work… So any updates would help.
Thanks,
Brent S.
