#1379

Good to hear!
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#1380

What about RAM? Is 1GB enough? Is 2 the minimum? Does 4 even make sense?

#1381

both fates and the shield do not support this functionality. you’ll need to ssh via wifi.

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#1382

As mentioned, the tty connection (over USB) thing is only on OG norns hardware. You should not need to mess with FTDI drivers at all.

Connection options for Fates:

FWIW - I’ve only tested using the UART once so I think it works, but your mileage may vary. :grin:.

#1383

Actually, the board files for Fates are not going to be released as open source. I don’t have time to go into detail here now. If you have questions please message me directly.

Your best bet is to examine the Monome Shield which has full source files available

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#1384

Hi @okyeron and @tehn that explains my troubles, I had the memory of connecting once but it was probably ssh.

thank you both for your answers :smile:

#1385

Great project! Thanks okyeron,

Question 1: Has anyone tried encoders with detent? Still 24ppm? (searched, couldn’t find any examples). If so, did it work well, and feel okay?

Question 2: Is there any simple solution for a larger display (for those who have troubles with the small screen). I want to set up a Fates for a friend who has vision challenges. External LCD, or some such?

Thanks!

#1386

I’ve never tried with detent encoders.

See here for making those work.

Not really anything simple. The board is pretty specifically wired for that Newhaven display. To replace it you’d need to find a similar but larger SPI display and manually rewire things. Then a bit of mucking about with linux settings, maybe drivers, etc. Messy.

You could try to use HDMI out from the pi, but I don’t know specific settings to make that work well. On a pi4 HDMI will take over the norns display output. So you could try starting there perhaps?

EDIT - you could also look at the “official Raspberry Pi 7” touch display" – it uses the direct display ribbon connector and leaves the GPIO pins free, so it could work. But youd still need to do some hacking to get the framebuffer to display in the right place.

#1387

My understanding that detent encoders will register multiple pulses (4?) per “click”, and this may make fine adjustments hard in some scripts.

#1388

No problem , thanks for letting me know :slight_smile:

#1389

So far so good, tends to stay around 67/68C

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#1390

Good. I’ll go ahead without a heat sink then.

#1391

So, hello again, I’m back on this connecting topic.

I managed to connect via wifi to my phone’s hotspot (useless) but not the regular wifi 4g network, ethernet cable works perfectly. My particular scenario is I have a very long (and tedious to type in) 33 character password for my network, so I wonder, is that an issue when saving/connecting to networks on the norns/fates/rpi?

On the other hand, if there is a way to add the network manually when logged in via ssh to a file (I tried wpa_supplicant without any luck) that would be ideal.

Otherwise worst case scenario I could update the password for my wifi and reconnect all the other devices at home by hand, in which case it would be good to know if there is any length/character limitation for the network name and password (I know strange characters didn’t work for my organelle).

cheers

#1392

So… if you can connect via ethernet for a session, then you can use nmtui from the command line to access network manager settings to add your wifi network manually.

nmtui gives you an “ncurses” graphical interface for dealing with network manager.

Let me know if that works for you.

(note - the network manager stuff overrides wpa_supplicant if I recall correctly)

#1393

YES YES YES!!

Thanks so much, that worked perfectly :pray:

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#1394

I just purchased a proper power supply and it is still unable to boot with 3B+ do i have to log in Norns? I also tried with a PI 4B system it is able to run Norns but has no display on OLED.

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#1395

Are you using the image? If not, just use the image to set up your SD card - far fewer headaches than the manual way.

#1396

Are you booting with both the HDMI and the OLED connected?

#1397

Please post here (or DM me if you like) with a detailed list of all the steps you’re taking - including what is connected to the device, which pi, which disk image, etc.

I can’t figure out enough context from your posts so far to suggest any solutions.

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