[raspberry-vi] Re: Introducing myself Gena

  • From: Georgina Joyce <m0ebp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:27:06 +0100

Hello,

Unfortunately, no not via bluetooth. I just plugged it in via a wire. I did try 
looking at the archive of this list and saw a reference to getting bluetooth 
working.

I think I will start a new thread and we can look at where we are up to 
currently.

Gena
Georgina Joyce
Applied Psychologist
Training and Coaching.
Because individuals of groups matter!


On 12 Oct 2013, at 22:57, Rill <starbasecafe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Gina,
> I've seen your name around and I'm delighted you're here.  Do you have 
> your jam-box working?  I am trying to figure out how bluetooth works 
> from the Arch command line.  I get more geeky every day. Smile.
> Rill
> On 10/12/2013 4:02 PM, Georgina Joyce wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I guess many of you will have seen my name around GNU Linux and Ham Radio VI 
>> lists. Well I monitored what you guys were saying about the Pi and thought I 
>> wouldn't bother as I'd had enough of people calling me a geek etc. Plus I 
>> simply just have too much stuff.
>> 
>> Well I saw Mike's notice that speakup was running on a Pi, so I was tempted. 
>> But still resisted until my personal assistant informed me of a raspberry 
>> jam here in Preston. So I booked his support for that meeting. That was 
>> Monday. On Tuesday, I got in a taxi to our CPC outlet and got a Pi.
>> 
>> I had found the accessible Arch image and grabbed it. I couldn't wait to 
>> have the time to play with it.
>> 
>> I firstly, run it with a HDMI cable attached. Not because I have enough 
>> sight but I'd be able to see if it was doing something and I hoped the sound 
>> would come through the TV's speakers. But this didn't work. I eventually 
>> found a pair of headphones and plugged them in and pressed return. I was 
>> well impressed, I heard that old familiar espeak voice.
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with Arch but I've already installed programs via pacman. I 
>> intend upon going to the next jam and leaving it hooked up to my jam-box 
>> playing some music.
>> 
>> Mike, regarding your comment on the site: Using ssh is the same as Linux for 
>> the Mac. I have run ssh from my Mac to run pacman etc. However, VoiceOver is 
>> nowhere as good as speakup. I used the ifconfig command on the Pi to 
>> establish it's IP. Then went to the Mac opened a terminal and entered:
>> 
>> ssh user@192.168.1.9
>> 
>> I was then prompted for the password. I have installed xcode and macports 
>> but I do believe that ssh is a standard part of OS X.
>> 
>> I have had problems subscribing to this list with my personal domain email 
>> configuration, so out of frustration used my hotmail address.
>> 
>> 73 to Hams and Regards to the rest. I look forward to contributing and 
>> learning from you all.
>> 
>> Gena
>> Georgina Joyce
>> Applied Psychologist
>> Training and Coaching.
>> Because individuals of groups matter!
>> 
>> 
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