Apparent problem starting up

[Bill E]

The configuration is real panel, peripherals configured for gui, start via gui. I vnc into the rpi, it's headless.

On boot, the simulator and panel controller are started, but not the gui window that shows the tape reader input, output, and the type 30.

This apparently means no tape can be loaded via the hardware panel. Load a tape, press read-in, nothing happens.

I have to shut down everything via pdp1control, restart it, then all is fine.

Also, before shutting things down, pdp1 and panel_pdp1 are pegging the rpi making it very difficult to execute anything. That goes away after restarting stuff via pdp1control.

[Oscar Vermeulen]

I will check tonight and fix/report back!

But if you run headless, the Web interface will be better. I expect VNC has a lot of trouble transferring the Type30 simulated output generated on the Pi over VNC. Still, it should work.

[Bill E]

The type 30 works fine over vnc. I use vnc so I have full desktop access. I do pidp-related development right on it.

I usually have snowflake running in a vnc window just for the fun of it. As soon as I add the display to my rack pidp-1, it will run there full-time.

Related to a post I saw a while back, my --10, and -11 are always on and the -1 will be. I turned off my -8, boring. Just for fun, -11 uptime:

[Bill E]

The web intf works fine. Minor annoyance, it of course sees files on the machine the browser is running, not on the rpi which is where the tapes are!

Again,  minor and would be a pain to fix anyway.

Bill

[Angelo Papenhoff/aap]

I considered this more of a feature actually. The use case i'm imagining is running the pidp-1 completely headless (because that's what i do, i hate having to deal with HDMI cables) and not having to deal with the linux side of things at all essentially. instead doing everything comfortably on the "terminal" machine (i assume many people have a laptop as their daily driver). Maybe a publicly shared directory synchronized over the internet would be the most fun way to share tapes in real time :)

[Alen Shapiro]

Hi Angelo,

I run all my PiDPs (-10, -11/70, -8, and -1) headless. I use "Jump Desktop" client for VNC on my Macs and iPads (https://jumpdesktop.com/download.html). HDMI cables would be all but impossible to manage. This is a "Jump" screenshot from my Mac, WiFi connected to a Pi-5 stuck on the back of my PiDP-1.

Regards,

--Alen

[Oscar Vermeulen]

>> On boot, the simulator and panel controller are started, but not the gui window that shows the tape reader input, output, and the type 30.

Confirmed - will fix tomorrow. Found the issue - my startup script, not Angelo's GUI program :-)