[Coco] pyDriveWire Q

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sat, 02 May 2020 16:56:59 -0300
coco at jechar.ca wrote:

> 
> I noticed that the syntax --ui-port 6800 is incorrect for Linux at
> least replace it
> with -U 6800 also the ui folder must be the subdirectory of your
> current path.
> In Linux your user must be a member of group dip thats all you need
> for Linux Mint
> I found however that in Ubuntu it would only work if I ran as root,
> 
> sudo ./pyDriveWire -U 6800 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 --speed 115200
> 
> Charlie.
> 
> On 2020-05-02 12:02, Steve Strowbridge wrote:
> > Barry I'm not sure what you're trying to post here, or accomplish,
> > are you
> > saying you had an issue launching PyDriveWire? If so, perhaps
> > sending an
> > email directly to Michael Furman, or reaching out to him directly
> > or in the
> > #DriveWire channel on the Discord server would get you a prompter 
> > response
> > than a general error posting in this forum.
> > 
> > That being said, I have been able to launch the "pre-packaged"
> > binary versions of PyDriveWire in Windows, at least, but there are
> > the same self-contained packages for Mac and Linux.
> > The Command I use to launch is a follows:  PyDriveWire  --ui-port
> > 6800 --port COM4 --speed 115200
> > What I'm specifying is the port for the web UI to run on so I
> > manage it through http://localhost:6800 I'm specifying that I'm
> > connected to COM4 physical serial on my PC/CoCo 3, and the baud
> > rate of 115K your specific
> > configurations may very, but for me, being a non UNIX/LINUX/Mac/CLI 
> > kind of
> > guy, I was able to quickly and easily get it up and running.
> > 
> > The aforementioned self-contained binaries, and a very
> > comprehensive manual
> > can be found at  https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire/releases   I
> > also strongly encourage you to hit up Mikey and the #drivewire
> > channel on Discord there are a lot of people who are actively
> > monitoring and responding to questions there.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Steve “Stevie Strow” Strowbridge
> > 
> > Retro nerd, vintage computing enthusiasts, self proclaimed CoCo
> > “Nut”
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 9:41 AM Barry Nelson 
> > <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> > ERROR: Must supply one of --port, --accept, or --connect or
> >> > config file
> >> >
> >> > usage: pyDriveWire.py [-h] [-s SPEED] [-a] [-c] [-H HOST] [-p
> >> > PORT] [-R] [-x EXPERIMENTAL] [-D CMDPORT] [-U UIPORT] [-C
> >> CONFIG]
> >> >                      [--daemon] [--status] [--stop]
> >> >                      [--pid-file DAEMONPIDFILE] [--log-file
> >> DAEMONLOGFILE]
> >> >                      [--debug] [--version] [--hdbdos] [--offset
> >> > OFFSET] [--noreconnect] [--print-format {pdf,txt}]
> >> >                      [--print-dir PRINTDIR | --print-prefix
> >> > PRINTPREFIX
> >> | --print-file PRINTFILE]
> >> >                      [--print-cmd PRINTCMD]
> >> >                      [FILE [FILE ...]]
> >> >
> >> > And of coarse my bash prompt comes back.
> >> 
> >> Ok, so, it ran. Now you just need to tell it how to connect to
> >> your CoCo.
> >> So something like:
> >> 
> >> ./pyDrivewire -p /dev/your_serial_port_device
> >> 
> >> You may also want to include -s and a baud rate, or you can setup
> >> a config
> >> file and give that as an argument.
> >> 
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> >> 
> 

  "--ui-port 6800" works fine here on Slackware 14.2


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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