I tried to simplify my setup and decided to use the tinypilot distro. When I installed the software based on the setup instructions, I ran into a couple of problems. The first issue that popped up was the app in the lastest version download runs in Spanish. Can someone steer me where to change to English?
Current setup RPI 2, PyPilot Hat, HP Controller
The second issue came about when following the pypilot workbook instructions (Step 10):
- Change Master(AP) to Managed(client), SSID to ‘openplotter’, and the wi-fi password of your openplotter access point, type in 10.10.10.2 for Client Mode Address, and click submit.
When I do this I lose the Wifi (AP) connection and cannot reconnect, and openplotter (AP) is not available.
I am sure there is probably an easy fix to both, but I am not seeing it. Thanks, in advance for your help.
2 options:
The first is to reinstall.
The second is to take out the SD-card and put it in a Linux-pc and change the file .pypilot/networking.txt:
mode=Managed
ssid=pypilot
key=
client_ssid=
client_key=
client_address=
address=
I.e. empty all rules the start with "client_". Most Windows users doe not have the second option (since Windows does not support the EXT4 file system).
Sorry to hear, as I wrote that workbook. That step 10 assumes that you have an Openplotter installation available, and it switches the TinyPilot to become a client of that Openplotter access point. I'll change the text to make that more clear.
I keep an HDMI display and a USB keyboard available for this kind of mishaps. With that, you can edit the file as hreuver mentioned. For similar problems on the pi-zero, I keep micro-hdmi and micro-usb extension bits.
WRT the UI language, I think that reflects your browser setting, so you'd need to change your browser preferred language to get this straight. To be sure, we'd have to wait for the east coast to wake up ;-)
(2022-05-07, 09:19 AM)ironman Wrote: [ -> ]WRT the UI language, I think that reflects your browser setting, so you'd need to change your browser preferred language to get this straight. To be sure, we'd have to wait for the east coast to wake up ;-)
This is still an issue. As there is no English to choose from in the language menu...
it could be you have an older version of pypilot. Before yes you would have to change the language in the browser settings. Later it was improved to select the language to override this for the web interface.
(2025-10-25, 01:47 AM)seandepagnier Wrote: [ -> ]it could be you have an older version of pypilot. Before yes you would have to change the language in the browser settings. Later it was improved to select the language to override this for the web interface.
It says 0.56, is there a newer one for Pi Zero 2 W?
In the Pypilot language list there are default, sv, ru, pt, pl, no, nl, it, fr, fi, es, el, de, da, ca
My browser language is English, but the pypilot sticks to half-Finnish or on my OpenCPN (BBN) half-Norwegian. Which is very odd.
by half-finnish do you mean because the translation isn't very good? (google translate)
Good question, can you try both firefox and chrome and compare? Did you find the option to manually override the language?
(2025-10-30, 01:16 AM)seandepagnier Wrote: [ -> ]by half-finnish do you mean because the translation isn't very good? (google translate)
Good question, can you try both firefox and chrome and compare? Did you find the option to manually override the language?
Some parts are not translated, and many are incomprehensible...
"Heading" -> "Otsikko" which means actually a heading of a chapter in a text, should be "Suunta"
"Magnetic heading" -> ...
"Pitch" -> "Piki" which means same as tar which the sticky stuff from the pine, translation is not easy as there is no one word translation I guess
"Roll" -> "Rullaa" as in rolling... should be "Kallistus"
And then of course port and starboard are not easy
Clutch is also "kihloissa" when engaged, i.e. meaning it will marry some-one soon...
But for some reason "Configure more settings with pypilot client" is fully in English.
But anyway, if you mean by manual override the language selection pulldown in Configuration then yes I have found it. And it gives me the languages listed above.
And I did test it with fresh Firefox and it stays in English, unlike Chrome.
If you want or care about the translation you could submit an updated translation file.
But anyway, yes amusing translations and not surprising. So in firefox you can make it just use english but not chrome?