The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

Ok, this Pi isn't setup with a static ip. And I'm not sure I want to bother? Kind of in a funky mood today. It's been a comedy of errors so far. My TV can be a pain detecting the Pi. If I don't turn it on first, then boot the Pi it doesn't see it. HDMI 2 is greyed out with no way to switch to it. Had to power cycle the Pi to get an image. I had also plugged my USB hub into the Pi Zero's power port instead of the OTG jack. I didn't notice, then wondered why my keyboard wouldn't work? lol, even put new batteries in it. Then I noticed my goof and moved the port over, Pi rebooted without a proper shut down.
Thanks for the info. I think I'll save ssh for another day.

On the plus side the Pi in question is one of the new rovers I built. It booted up Ok with no magic blue smoke. PowerBoost looks to be working just fine. Battery indicator just turned green.

Yes you would surely want to bother with static IP since you are dealing with Pi almost everyday. Do it once and you will thank yourself forever..:)

"If" I was going to log in every day, I would do it. I'm doing my setup on my Rovers, I won't be logging every day so I'll just plug in a monitor etc for now. Plus I have two to setup. I'll pass for now. I will eventually setup one of my spare Zero's with a static and have a go at it.

It is actually not very hard to do. Log in to your router, in the LAN page of the router interface, type in the mac address of the pi, assign an IP. Done. What router do you have?

I know how to do it, I've done it in the past. No big deal. Its just down near the bottom on my list of things to do.

Got the preliminary stuff done. Did the update upgrade, set the preferences for keyboard etc. Also ran the one line installer for the Explorer pHat. GPIO shut down script for my shut down button is done and tested. Next step is the control code. I think I'll try my Bluetooth controller first. Won't be today though, really sore today. Made some headway though.

Got one rover running with my mini keyboard. Seems to work Ok. Turning while moving forward or in reverse isn't so good. May have to tweak that code a bit. Turns Ok (spins) when stopped first though. I already had all the button maps figured out for that keyboard so it was an easy install and setup. It's been a downhill battle with my chronic pain lately so I haven't been doing much on the PC or Pi. Now that its not raining every second day, and a little warmer I'm getting a bit better. Hope to get at the other one and setup my Bluetooth controller this week some time.

I had an issue with my weather clock and its powerboost setup way back when I first wired it up. I have a button wired up to a GPIO pin to do the os shutdown when pressed. Using just the Pi's internal pull up weird things were happing. If it was running from the powerboost and I plugged my power supply into the powerboost, it would shut down as if the button was pressed? Putting in my own pullup resistor fixed it.
I neglected to do that on the rover but its working Ok? No shutdown when I plug in my power supply. I just tested it twice. The only thing I can think of is the setup in the rover is a lot more compact. No long jumper wires going to from the powerboost. I also have the shutdown button in the weather clock right next to the power switch. Probabaly not the best setup but I have limited space for them. In the rovers the powerboost is soldered right to the protozero with a short header.

I like the hardware side of it a lot more than the software side of things. I actually like the fabrication part, building it etc. Sitting in front of a monitor typing terminal commands not so much. My enthusiasm returns though once I get something usable in python. Another aspect of it I like is "my" project more often than not, isn't like anybody else's. Some are similar but not the same, but I also have some nobody else has. Not unless they copied mine. My breadboard rig I think is pretty unique. My portable weather clock too. I take pride in that.
I hear what your saying Jack. There are times I find it hard to just get started on something. This doomy gloomy weather isn't helping either.