![]() You’ll then essentially be talking directly to the Tonido via the BusPirate. You can then use the Bus Pirate as a UART bridge by invoking the “(1)” macro.From there, you can access the Bus Pirate, configure it in UART mode with a baud rate of 115200 and sensible other defaults. If you run “screen /dev/tty.usbserial-AH00MPIK 115200” (your tty device will likely be different), it makes a convenient terminal emulator. To use the Bus Pirate with my Mac laptop, I like to use GNU screen.I just hooked up MOSI to RX, MISO to TX, and GND to GND.The four pins are Vcc, Rx, Tx, and GND, starting from the power supply side and working toward the USB/Ethernet cable side.In case anyone else (or me in the future) wants to know how to do this: Most people seem to make a small adapter to use an FTDI-serial adapter cable with it (the six pin ones like you would use for the Arduino), but I had a Bus Pirate sitting around, and I thought that it might work. On the bottom side of the tonido is a nice little rubber cover, concealing 4 pins. ![]() Not good.īut in doing this research, I found that it was possible to access the boot loader and serial console. I find that some people have had difficulty booting from the internal drives, and the Tonido support guys have been very coy, claiming that “we don’t support that”. I then start tracking through various support and Wiki links. So, I pulled the internal drive, and it reboots back to its default configuration. I ended up with a flashing red LED, and the network never comes back up. ![]() ![]() I powered it up, verified that it worked in its default configuration, then proceeded to follow the directions on the ArchLinux ARM page. It has all sorts of “personal cloud” applications running on it, which I had no interest in, but doing a bit more research, I found that I could install ArchLinux on the internal hard drive, and it would boot to that automatically. It’s a cute little server based upon the Sheeva Plug computer concept, but includes space to insert a 2.5″ SATA laptop drive. My previous server drew about 30 watts, and I suspected that I could get something more compact and lower power to replace it. I like having a 24/7 hooked up to the Internet to serve as a file drop and a place where I can use SSH to connect to other devices on my home network, but the machine need not be hugely fast, and it would probably be better if it were fairly low power. I spent some time thinking about how I would replace it. A few days ago, I mentioned that one of my servers had died. ![]()
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