Tux Droid
Introduction
_The_ gadget any linux geek should have ;-)
Moreover it is designed in Belgium, tadaam!
Having kids can help justifying such a, hum, impulsive buy ;-)
http://www2.tux-is-alive.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/b/b9/Tux-proto.jpg/200px-Tux-proto.jpg
Sites
Audio
- Plugging everything for the first time, and I got immediately a new Alsa device:
cat /proc/asound/cards
...
2 [default ]: USB-Audio - TUX RF DONGLE
C2ME BELGIUM TUX RF DONGLE at usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed
And I can already place an Ekiga test call :-)
Note that echo between internal speaker and microphone is very important so echo tests are quite terrible!
Using the OSS emulation, I can play whatever I want:
mpg321 -o oss -a /dev/dsp2 /path/to/some/mp3 mplayer -ao oss:/dev/dsp2 http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.mp3
Reflashing
Then I learn that to run the new (alpha2) tuxdaemon I'll also need to flash the stuffed pinguin.
Instructions are given on the web site and are not... straightforward.
Additional notes:
- Be sure to have installed properly libusb and to have mounted /proc/bus/usb, cf /usr/share/doc/libusb-0.1-4
- Recompile dfu-programmer from sources! I first tried alien on the rpm but there were glibc problems
- They explain about tuxup fuxrf.hex and tuxup --main . but I had also to fix the tux rf counterpart: tuxup tuxrf.hex
- At the end, replug the dongle and restart the tux
Misc
- tuxdaemon from svn eats all CPU when running daemonised :-(
- tuxdaemon dies after 2 secs when launched from gtdi
- gtdi source to be modified: add a space between gnome-terminal -e and "the_commands"
- Where to get Acapela Telecom? It's actually available as the tts-daemon