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Autopilot Errors: no motor controller!
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(2021-04-18, 11:47 PM)ironman Wrote: If the page does not even load, you might not be running the pypilot_web service. In openplotter, you start that service by switching the button 'browser control' on. The workbook outlines how you check whether a service is running. If it does run, stop the service and run pypilot_web at the prompt and post the output here.

Thanks. That might have been the problem. I don't know. For the moment, the web page loads, but "pypilot Server: Not Connected". Your instructions in step 4, which worked well on the RPi3B installation, don't work for me now. I am thinking of starting all over again, a fresh install. That works sometimes if you are incompetent like me. I might have done something wrong on the way.

Anyway, I installed Tinypilot on a Zero and that seems to work without any hickups at all so I am considering going that way, that is, a separate pypilot computer, instead of mixing it with the rest of the openplotter thing.
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#22
You will find that doing it all over again is very worthwile. Everytime you redo it it becomes easier, to the point that reinstalling it becomes fun. I had to get to that point to write that workbook, and for me the process is 100% reproducible now. With any of those things, rooky mistakes in the beginning always come nack to bite you.
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#23
(2021-04-19, 07:49 AM)ironman Wrote: You will find that doing it all over again is very worthwile. Everytime you redo it it becomes easier, to the point that reinstalling it becomes fun. I had to get to that point to write that workbook, and for me the process is 100% reproducible now. With any of those things, rooky mistakes in the beginning always come nack to bite you.
I totally agree with you. I know from experience, especially from my early days as a Linux user around 2008-10. Back in those days there was so much that could go wrong, especially on a laptop, and if you were a beginner.

One thing I learned now from re-doing several times is that I should always use the imager app for transfering images to the SD card. Saves time and it's very reliable.
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#24
I'm going to make openplotter easier very soon, there are a lot of things it needs to check for and inform the user to save them time.
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#25
Sounds good. I appreciate your work very much, Sean.
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