[Coco] Drivewire and raspberry pi 2

John B trymyz at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 11:59:10 EDT 2015


Thanks.  What are you using for a serial to IP bridge?

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> To start DW4 without a gui, add the --noui option on the command line. In
> this mode it needs only a few MB of ram. I've used it on a Linksys router
> with only 16mb ram total and a 233mhz cpu. It would be fine on a pogoplug,
> raspberry pi of any model, etc.
>
> There is also a limited gui that may work on modest systems, iirc the
> option is --liteui. Use --help to list all the options if that's not right.
>
> The raspberry pi is also able to run the full GUI and the libraries for
> this are included, but its not very fast.
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015, 11:44 AM John B <trymyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > Do you have any instructions/information on how to implement DW4 on the
> > PogoPlug?  Does it just interface over the network?
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Bill Nobel wrote:
> > >
> > >  I have it on my Mac’s and PC’s (total of 4) and one time tried on my
> Pi
> > >> ver B. It is the Gui that slowed it down the most.  I think Aaron has
> a
> > non
> > >> Gui interface that runs in the background, but have not investigated
> it
> > too
> > >> much.  I even have gone to the extent of having the DW server on 1
> > machine
> > >> and tied it to another machine(s) for the drives.  Aaron has done a
> very
> > >> good job in getting the Networking tied across Multiple platforms.
> > There
> > >> is one thing with Mac’s that I and Bill Pierce have noticed is that on
> > >> Linux or Unix (Macs) that network paths get a little funky, but still
> > works.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I run DW4 as a daemon (headless) on a Seagate Dockstar (aka PogoPlug)
> > > appliance.  If I need to configure anything, I fire up the UI on my
> Linux
> > > machine and access it remotely.
> > >
> > > Speed is perfectly adequate, even on this little machine with 256MB of
> > > memory.
> > >
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