@Kaasneef, I just logged in to Jessie using both the terminal (putty from windows) and the browser (shell) and vnc. All three seemed to work fine with the pi/robots1234 combo . . . hmm.
@John
something i must be doing wrong …
terminal (from my Mac El Capitan) doesn’t work (see attached screenshot), and i am 150% sure i entered the correct password
from the browser, both terminal and vnc work OK.
Hmm. Looks like you changed the hostname from dex.local to pibrick.local?
Hi john,
Cool. If I grab the latest BrickPi drivers and install them, I should be able to configure it and get it to work. I’ll give that a try in the next few days.
peter
Looking at github, I don’t see the changes to BrickPi or BrickPi_Python. Where is the advanced communications program?
thanks
peter
Hey peter,
The Advanced communication options is enabled by a GUI on the desktop. Here is the link to the source code https://github.com/DexterInd/Raspbian_For_Robots/tree/master/advanced_communication_options . Right now it allows you select either UART for BrickPi, or Bluetooth or IR control.
-Karan
thanks Karan, I will take a look this weekend
@kaasneef: I’ve double-checked and it’s robots1234 from everywhere I try to log in. Browser (VNC and terminal), Putty, ssh, even direct connection (screen and keyboard)
The pi user has its password set to robots1234 (that covers all forms of logging in via ssh and variants thereof)
samba has it too.
VNC is set to robots12 (the ‘34’ can be entered, it will simply be dropped by VNC - max of 8 characters in the password)
Hello,
I apologize if you find my question strange but i downloaded the file 2016.04.25-Dexter_Industries_jessie.zip and when I unzipped it on my Mac I get a file named like this: 2016.04.25_Dexter_Industries_jessie.zip.cpgz
I tried to rename the extension as img and copy it on the SD card, but after launching my robot nothing happens, so I tried to copy the file on the SD card without changing the extension and nothing happens either. The Raspberry does not show up on my screen.
I have two questions regarding this situation:
Is there something I should do with this file before running this command? sudo dd bs=1m if=2016.04.25_Dexter_Industries_jessie.zip.cpgz of=/dev/disk3
Is this release supposed to work on Raspberry Pi model B ?
thanks
jsv, you need to use a program such as TheUnarchiver to get to the .img file
Agreeing here with Tracy, I think your program is upacking the packed img file into something else other than an img file. You might try a different program.
Downloaded 2016.06.26_Dexter_Industries_jessie.zip twice. Once from SourceForge, once from Google Drive. Both fail to unzip. I tried Mac’s Archive Utility first, then unzip followed by gunzip. The command line unzip seemed to give the most informative message.
As noted by jsv the archive utility rearchived the file as a cpgz file instead of extracting the image.
III:2016.06.26_DexterIndustries_jessie cjl$ unzip *.zip
Archive: 2016.06.26_Dexter_Industries_jessie(1).zip
warning [2016.06.26_Dexter_Industries_jessie(1).zip]: 76 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
error [2016.06.26_Dexter_Industries_jessie(1).zip]: reported length of central directory is
-76 bytes too long (Atari STZip zipfile? J.H.Holm ZIPSPLIT 1.1
zipfile?). Compensating…
skipping: 2016.06.26_Dexter_Industries_jessie.img need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)
note: didn’t find end-of-central-dir signature at end of central dir.
Any suggestions?
We haven’t seen the unizip fail for any of the users before. Maybe the download got corrupted somehow. There is a rar here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dexterindustriesraspbianflavor/files/?source=navbar. Can you try downloading that and if that does not work too, can you try downloading an image from the archive and see if that works for you. Do you have access to another system where you can try unzipping this.
-Karan
Hi Karen, Thank you for the advice. I’ll try the rar but to move forward I ordered one of the SD cards with Raspbian for Robots. I made a backup image and loaded it onto another sd card following the article at:
https://smittytone.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/back-up-a-raspberry-pi-sd-card-using-a-mac.
I’ll let you know how using the rar goes and try another system too when available. Thanks again,
-Thorlyf
For the record, I had the same problem with the ZIP file that Thorlyf reported. It seems that the unzip program bundled with OS X doesn’t like this particular ZIP file. However, installing 7-Zip solved the problem and I was able to extract the image file and to verify its MD5 checksum without any further trouble.
Not sure if this was already brought up but the DHCP with wired connection for initial setup doesn’t work with Pi3 and this image.
Hey @82d28a,
Can you make a new post and share more information about the problem you are having with DHCP and the Pi3 and what all have you tried with it.
-Karan
Hi,
I am trying to connect it via direct network cable connection by using xrdp for remote desktop with the changes of the following:
sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf
interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.1.141/24
static routers=192.168.1.1
static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.1
It doesn’t work.
How to use VNC? I type dexter.local in web browser and it leads me to internet.
Hi @lim_kim_hoe,
In order to use VNC, you will have to type http://dex.local on your web browser.
Can you tell us if you are using Raspbian for Robots image from Dexter Industries or any other image on your Pi.
Can you also tell us about the robot that you are using and if you have followed the getting started instructions for BrickPi,GoPiGo or GrovePi given in our website in setting it up.
-Shoban