I’ve been toying around with an idea to make my own brewstand controller. Over the past year or so I’ve been designing a front panel and circuits with plan to connect to an Ardunio for future semi-automation with an Android app. The more I’ve been kicking around ideas it started to seem like a web interface would be nice rather an Android app so that I could control it from any device. For my birthday I got a Raspberry Pi (thank mom and dad) to do just that. Here is a quick post about getting setup.<\/p>\n
Took about 30 mins to find a microSD card and another 20 mins to find the adapter to fit into the normal SD card slot on my laptop. Great start! I followed the simple directions to format, download, and install the NOOBs file to the card. Setup the RPi with an HDMI cable to my laptop and powered it on. Nothing. When trying to switch over the screen to the HDMI input it kept telling me not HDMI input detected. After googling a bit I came across the idea to reinstall the Alienware On-Screen Display (OSD) program. So I did that and didn’t notice that it was the Win 8 version instead of Win 7. So that uninstall the version I had working. I stopped the night with my function keys on the keyboard not working and still hadn’t turned on the RPi<\/p>\n
Found a Win 7 version of the Alienware OSD<\/a> and got my keyboard working again. Decided to try getting things going headless with help from this post<\/a>. So I re-installed the RPi software with SSH on. Then I plugged in a network cable from the RPi to my computer. After many different attempts I couldn’t figure out what IP address the RPi was on and could never connect to it.<\/p>\n Break. Need to actually get things done around the house.<\/p>\n Moved the RPi close the router and plugged it in to the LAN. I was able to see the device on the router screen and then SSH into the device for the first time! With this I was able to see the wireless cards MAC address and then configure the router to set the RPi to a fixed IP address. From there I was able to remove the network cable and still connect to the RPi over the wlan. Progress! I updated programs, added personal user account, and took sudo privledges from the default ‘pi’ username. Next, I set out to get X11 working<\/a> so I could see program windows on my laptop rather than just a terminal window using Xming<\/a>. I was able to get X11 working, but only for a program at a time (never the background desktop). And that is where I left things<\/p>\n Found another other ideas to get X11 sharing the desktop. This was to create a shortcut with the following Target:<\/p>\nDay 3<\/h2>\n
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C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Xming\\Xming.exe\" :0 -clipboard -multiwindow<\/pre>\n