My Pimoroni Flotilla kit arrived today, and I didn’t have a Raspberry Pi left in workable condition. So, I looked for a set-up that would allow me not to use one. I found a write-up on using Ubuntu and that was hugely useful.
I already had git, so I hit
git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/Flotilla-Daemon-VS.git
in my build area. The daemon is the non-GUI backing that does the hard work of talking to the USB device. It comes without all the dependencies, though. The first one, mentioned in the Ubuntu guide, is libserial. That’s in the AUR. I already had autoconf and libtool. As it happened, I didn’t need to make libserial. This is fortunate, as I found out before I looked in the AUR that pushd was not going to play nicely and I had no idea what that meant.
I also needed libserialport-git from the AUR and websocketpp from the standard repository. I found this out when the makefile borked, and each time there wasn’t a required dependency, I just found it. More than that, I needed to take out the version number in the Makefile. CC = g++-4.9 is probably not allowed because it’s not pure GCC. So, I replaced it with CC = g++ and that worked fine. I swapped OBJECT and LDFLAGS as per the Ubuntu instructions, although I don’t know if that made a difference.
Then I downloaded Rockpool, the interface.
git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/flotilla-offline
That should have run nicely with cd flotilla-offline/rockpool && python rockpool.py but as it happens I have python3 so I made it explicit: python2 rockpool.py and then I was done. Remember to click on Connect rather than waiting politely for the bar to load. You’re acting as a server on the USB connection, so although the address looks like the default, it is and it should be.
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