[SOLVED] [RASPBIAN]-[MAC] connected to boblightd - nothing happens
#1
Hello All,

Following my setup:
Mac Mini 2010, OS 10.7.5 - xbmc 12.3
Arduino Uno with 50 WS2801 LEDs
raspberry (raspbian) -> for daemon ONLY

boblightd is running on raspberry and xbmc connects to boblightd succesfull.
Here is my boblight.conf: http://pastebin.com/L0yJ7wcC


I made the boblightd by following a german guide:

Quote:sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ subversion

Quote:svn checkout http://boblight.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /home/pi/boblight_source

Quote:cd /home/pi/boblight_source/
./configure --without-portaudio --without-x11 --without-libusb

Quote:make; sudo make install

Quote:cd ~
wget https://github.com/brooc/boblight-rpi/ra...t-dispmanx
chmod 755 boblight-dispmanx

Quote:sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Quote:/usr/local/bin/boblightd -f &
/home/pi/boblight-dispmanx -b on -o interpolation=1 -o speed=90 -o threshold=35 -o autospeed=0 -o saturation=1 -o value=1 -p 100 -i 0.1 -f /dev/null &



Unfortunately nothing happens with the LEDs on xbmc.
And I really have no idea why.
I checked if the serial port and IP is correct and both definitely is.
If I do the boblight-constant command, raspberry tells me that "Connection to boblightd opened"

Does anyone have an idea what I did wrong?

Thank you

EDIT: Just want to add some more Information.
If I run the standalone adalight/processing tool, the lights work properly.

I used the guide above because it made sense to me.
If anyone has another guide, which describes how to setup a boblight daemon, I would be happy to try that!
...I'm not sure, if the dispmanx option make sense, because I read this in combination with raspbmc only.
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#2
boblight-dispmanx <- this is a client - you don't even need that when you want to use the addon (also it could interfer with it - so don't use it).

just start the boblightd (/usr/local/bin/boblightd -f &) and then start XBMC. Does this work then?
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#3
Hi Memphiz,

just tried with boblightd only.
I removed the dispmanx from start-up as first step and tried again
As second step I deleted boblight-dispmanx and tried again.
Both unsuccessful, I'm afraid. LEDs stay dark
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#4
Hi again,

I set the debug "on" just to look what happens:

http://pastebin.com/289V7bKd

Corresponding boblight.conf:
http://pastebin.com/CWzQUva9


Because I usually have an USB switch between the arduino and the Mac, I tried also the direct attach...
I checked if the tty.usbmodem Port is correct before I started boblight-constant.

Hope this helps
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#5
Hi All,

I did some testing with an iMac and 10.9, because Maverick seems not to have all that problems during startup etc., but got the same result:
ERROR: ambilight: /dev/tty.usbmodemxxx: open() No such file or directory

I'll re-install raspbian an setup the Daemon again WITH libusb and boblight-x11.
Hope that this will help Big Grin

Thanks
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#6
Well it is obvious ... /dev/tty.usbmodemxxx is not there - seeems the device is called different (keep in mind it is case sensitive!)
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#7
Thanks Memphiz

I hoped that libusb includes some kind of USB drivers that may help at the connection.

But what else can I do as to ask the terminal: ls /dev/tty.* ?
I type-in what the terminal tells me. And there are no other USB devices...
So Terminal may not tell me the correct name of the serial port?
I checked the available serial ports in the Arduino Sofrware as well and this is always equivalent to Terminal.

I would appreciate, if you or someone else could give me some hint.

Thanks

edit:
Memphiz, I'm aware that you are a very busy man and I don't want you to spend much resource to my non-XBMC problem...
I'll, of course, ask google as well... Just want to let you know that.
Thank you for your support!
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#8
Plug in the arduino and then hit "dmesg" ... have a look at the last lines there it might show you where the devices is located in the /dev/ directory. At the worst you are missing a kernel driver for that arduino serial2usb converter. In that case you could just post the last lines of "dmesg" after plugging the arduino in...

Yes i am busy of course - but your problem only needs me to type some words - nothing i need to test or code for you (which would be the real time burner) - so i'm ok with that....
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#9
what I get is:

Quote:AppleUSBCDCACMData: Version number - 4.1.22, Input buffers 8, Output buffers 16
AppleUSBCDC: Version number - 4.1.22

after plugging in.

first tried "sudo dmesg"
then "sudo dmesg | grep -i usb"

Both brought the same

Thanks
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#10
I thought we are talking about raspbian ... try the same on raspbian ...
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#11
Ähm..
Sorry, but the daemon runs on raspbian. The arduino is plugged to the mac. I run the daemon over network to serve the Mac. So you ment that I have to hook-up the arduino to the raspberry to find out the port? That doesn't made sense to me...? However - I'll try that...

Tanks again
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#12
Ha you are confusing me.

The daemon (boblightd) has to run on the same device where the arduino is connected to. So imo - connect the arduino to the raspbian - get the /dev/tty.blahbah device - adapt the boblightd.conf on the raspbian with that device. Then connect your clients via network to the raspbian.

That's how it is ment to be done if you ask me.
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#13
Honestly

I Love You Memphiz!

Don't know how I could thought this Arduino has to be plugged to the Mac.
I'm sure sou think I'm stupid - Lololol

You gave me the hint! So I really Love You!
You have no idea how many hours I tried to get it work.

Kaum macht mans richtig, schon gehts!


Many many thanks
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