Outdoor Technologist

Don’t sudo hungover

Twice now, since working with Linux again, I’ve managed to be a fool and delete my windows partition… This happens because I’m hungover, and because I take the extra steps of deleting the partitions on the SD Cards before I reimage them to ensure that I don’t mess up and test the wrong build, again!…

Linux default Programs

For text mimeopen -d file.txt Once it is open it gives you the choices – select the one you want. Info: https://superuser.com/questions/474079/how-do-i-set-notepad-as-the-default-editor

SCP – PuTTY or WinSCP

PSCP Transferring files between my linux and Windows10 machine for quicker transfer vs downloading larger files https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html Specific file: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/pscp.exe WinSCP It has a GUI, so I’ll use it until I get comfortable with command line again. https://winscp.net/eng/download.php Direct Download: https://winscp.net/download/WinSCP-5.17.7-Setup.exe

WSL2 drive mount & dd

Mount a windows drive in WSL2. Check to see if the /mnt/ directory exists. If not, create it. Mine existed so I just mounted it: dd doesn’t work (yet) On to my linux machine…

View Google WiFi ARP table

Do this: http://192.168.86.1/api/v1/diagnostic-report File downloads and you can open in a terminal with ‘less’ Info Source: https://support.google.com/googlenest/thread/497675?hl=en&msgid=502464

RPi Camera (Part II)

Let’s stream video https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/use-raspberry-pi-as-pc-webcam IMPORTANT!!!! Tom’s Hardware left the “.so” off of the end of this command. I’m not sure if it was an accident or marketing to start the conversation, but don’t get caught up by it! On the receiver side:

RPi Camera (Part I)

Used these directions https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-picamera/3 I was able to take a picture and record a short video

RPi Display doesn’t wake up

I did this first: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=255163 Specifically adding to We’ll see how it works. If that DOES NOT work, I’ll try this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=57552

Add Complied program to Linux SD card

Reference Document Title: Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK for EVK-MCIMX7ULP Document Number: MCUXSDKIMX7ULPGSUGUser’s Guide Rev. 2, 26 May 2020 Compile program Use IAR for windows based on above document Install MinGW-32 Based on above document. But no clear installation instructions out there, I found this one from 2018: Ensure you have the following in your…

Win 10 unresponsive until ctrl+alt+del then ‘esc’

Was having this issue and found a (hopeful) solution using these commands: This is the reddit post that google sent me to: