I was able to connect with putty on my MBP with a cat5 connected between the Pi and my MBP.
Also you can plug the Pi into your HDTV with an HDMI cable and then plug a USB keyboard into your Pi and you will be directly connected. I use my iPad charger with a micro USB cable to power the Pi for troubleshooting and programming. Unplug your motors if you use a power brick so you will not run the risk of damaging your hardware while you are using the power brick.
Sorry to hear about the trouble here. I have a few questions:
1). Are you using the ethernet cable? when you plug an ethernet cable in, do you see the lights on the ethernet port turn on and start blinking?
2). Is it possible to power the Pi with the 2A power supply; did you receive the Dexter Industries Raspberry Pi Power supply?
3). The Raspberry Pi version: does it have 4 USB ports or just 2? It might help us to troubleshoot what’s going on if you post a picture of your setup.
Great it looks like the Pi and the SD card are working properly. The problem is setting up a network, your Mac for some reason isn’t making a solid connection to the Pi or isn’t finding dex.local.
Are you able to ping dex.local? Is there a response from dex.local when you type ping dex.local in the command line?
I would try three things:
Remove the wifi dongle on the Pi. You might need to restart the Pi after you do this.
Turn off wifi on the Mac. Since you’re trying to connecting over ethernet, can you try turning off the wifi adapter on your Mac?
Download and install Bonjour Browswer. This program can help you “find” bonjour machines like the Pi on the network. You can download it here: http://www.tildesoft.com/
Hey Brian, sorry for the continued frustrations. Can you send me a screenshot of what your ethernet advanced settings proxies looks like? To get that, go to Network Preferences, and select the ethernet adapter. Then select “Advanced…” and from the next menu, select the “Proxies”. When you see this tab, are anything on the list selected? IE does your computer have any special proxy settings setup?
And at the bottom, where it says “Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains” do you have “*.local, 169.254/16” entered?
My gopigo will not connect to any (5 different Macs) of my computers. I’d like to zither get a replacement raspberry pi board, ad card or just send it all back for someone at Dexter to solve. I’d be happy to pay for shipping both ways. This was a purchase for my 11 yo daughter to try and get her into programming.
Hey Brian, I’m sorry for the slow reply. I’m also very sorry to hear your daughter is losing interest. I have two more avenues to try to solve your networking problem. Again, it sounds like your GPG is functioning correctly, the issues is making the connection.
Since we’re using a Mac, we can cycle Bonjour on it. This might help Bonjour refresh and find the GoPiGo. Again, I would do all this with the GoPiGo connected to wall power, over ethernet, both ethernet lights blinking. In the command line on the Mac, run:
This should re-enable bonjour on the Mac. After you’ve run the second two commands, run:
ping dex.local
Finally, if cycling bonjour doesn’t work, you can assign a static IP address. This seems to have worked every time for mac folks having trouble connecting. This is a quick change on the SD card where you will be able to connect to an assigned IP address (something like 169.x.x.x where x are numbers, rather than “dex.local”.). The idea is that if your Bonjour software isn’t able to connect, either because it’s not working or something is preventing it from connecting on the network, we assign this fixed address and connect over it.
Hey bunkisland, that is the best news all week! So glad to see that it’s working and it’s really gratifying to see your success. Thanks for sticking with us through this!
Can you tell me, so we can help other folks: which step helped solve the problem? Did the sudo launchctl load commands work, or did the static IP address work?