[Coco] Drivewire and raspberry pi 2

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 12:01:30 EDT 2015


I generally don't use one. Any USB to serial adapter does the trick more
easily. I have tested serial to ip using a digicomm terminal server and an
old Cisco router and they work but its more of a headache to get them set
up.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015, 11:59 AM John B <trymyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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