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Comment on Home Automation – Raspberry Pi Links by ni-c

ni-c — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:52:44 +0000

Thank your for these links, they helped me a lot setting up my home automation with Raspberry PI and Arduino UNO!

Comment on XRF Temperature Sensor -> XRF Slice of Pi by martin convery

martin convery — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:44:01 +0000

hey! really weird. Im doing something similar to this and I see you’re also a convery!!

Comment on Ubuntu 11.04 Upgrade…won’t boot – GRUB prompt by Mayela

Mayela — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:22:32 +0000

Thanks for this post, Rob. I am using Ubuntu version 12.04.1 as a virtual machine on VMware, host machine runnnig Windows 7. I had the same issues of vmlinuz instead of vmlinux and numbers, but also the first command root=(hd0,1) didn’t work for me, instead I pressed tab after “hd” and it showed (hd0,msdos1), which worked fine.

Comment on Install Node.js v0.8.2 on Raspbian by R

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:39:02 +0000

Make and install was failing for me with the default download if Raspbian, due to missing the openssl header.

To fix this: `sudo apt-get install libssl-dev` needs to be done first to.

Anyway, with the above node v0.8.15 is works.

Comment on XRF -Sensors + Relays by robconvery

robconvery — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:21:24 +0000

Slow progress although do have the hardware working. The project is stalled behind building a porch. I used the USB module for loading the firmware from a windows machine. I used the latest firmware available for all – for the one connected to the Pi its the serial one you need.

Comment on XRF -Sensors + Relays by colin

colin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:31:59 +0000

Hi, Have you progressed much with this? I’m currently doing exactly the same and am just about to start testing. Did you load the relay XRF firmware via the slice of pi then swap it to the relay board when programming? What firmware did you use for the XRF which shall be permenantly connected to the Pi via the slice of Pi ?

Thanks
Col

Comment on Home Automation – Raspberry Pi Links by Mic

Mic — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:16:49 +0000

Hi Rob,

I’m starting to make my raspberry pi talking to my JSON/KNX gateway (KNX IP BAOS 772) and these links were all I needed to start.
Thank you.

What kind of automation are you using?

Comment on Install Node.js v0.8.2 on Raspbian by Zachary Kent

Zachary Kent — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:32:25 +0000

0.8.9 Worked for me on Raspian “wheezy” just as Yfory said.

Comment on Ubuntu 11.04 Upgrade…won’t boot – GRUB prompt by Helen H

Helen H — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:17:29 +0000

You are amazing!

Was running ubuntu in virtualbox, and OK’d some sort of “partial” upgrade of ubuntu without thinking.

Then next time I started up, virtualbox wanted to upgrade too, so I OK’d that too, and started my virtual machine…

And then all was broken and I got sad because of this unfamiliar “grub” prompt with no boot options I had no clue and no idea even which upgrade might have caused the problem. Was getting ready to remove the ubuntu and make a new one, when I found your instructions.

Which worked perfectly, hooray!

For other people like me who have no idea how to use grub:

tabbing gives lists of possible files (so linux /boot/tab will give you a list of good suspects for what you want here).

Also, like Jim, I didn’t see an “sda1″ listed, but typing it still worked.

Time wasted looking for a solution at ubuntu and virtualbox – lots. Time saved because I don’t have to reinstall my programs and perl modules on a new virtual machine – lots.

Thankyou!

Comment on Install Node.js v0.8.2 on Raspbian by Yfory

Yfory — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:49:27 +0000

Just to let you know, I have managed to get this working on Raspbian with 0.8.9, only significant change was:
git checkout origin/v0.8.2-release -b v0.8.2-release

becomes:
git checkout origin/v0.8.9-release -b v0.8.9-release