Is it possible to plug a wifi or ethernet dongle into the USB port on the 201 Pocket Piano and gain ssh access to Linux?
Iām very interested in this as well!
Yes this is possible. The 201 is running a Yocto Linux distribution and SSH is enabled by default. To login use ārootā for the user and āorganelleā for the password.
The harder part is getting it on the networkā¦ If you plug in an RT5370 WiFi adapter (this is the same one we use with Organelle), it will try to connect to a network named āmusicā. This isnāt so helpful since you would have to have a network of that name. To change the network name you have to edit ā/etc/wpa_supplicant.confā
It also works with a USB ethernet adapter, Iāve been using this one:
Once you get in with Ethernet, you an edit wpa_supplicant.conf with your WiFi network credentials.
vim is installed for editing and the gcc toolchain is also installed. There is some other stuff like Python installed but mostly the system is very stripped down.
Other thoughts: you could put something in the Pd patch that used the [shell] object to change WiFi credentialsā¦ also looking into getting a serial console available via the USB-C
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Thank you! Works great.
I thought it will be easy to establish the āmusicā network as I have an Organelle but unfortunately it didnāt want to connect to it - Organelle OS 4.2.
If it is of help for anyone:
Being on a Mac Iāve downloaded Paragonās extFS for Mac - Write/read access to Linux files under macOS High Sierra - extFS by paragon software for Mac - it has a 10 days free demo. With that I was able to mount the SD card via card reader and change the network settings in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
You just have to find out the IP address of your 201PP with a local WiFi scanner.
Just did a quick scp file transfer and it worked flawless:
scp -v -r ./X-201-Pacifica root@my.201.ip.address:/home/root/app/pd/synths/
Not sure if I prefer this over disk mode but itās still nice to have this option.
Forgot to mention thisā¦ The LanScan app is free and works very quickly listing the IP address on your local network.
Very nice. Is this true of the 5 Moons as well? I assume itās true of the Organelle since the default password is āorganelleā.