Recommended Getting Started in a post-pymaker world

[robmarkcole]

Hi all, just wondering what the recommended tutorial is for starting with my Wipy now that pymaker is not being continued? I suppose https://docs.pycom.io/pycom_esp32/pycom_esp32/toolsandfeatures.html#repl-over-telnet-and-serial ?
Re exploring the filesystem, on my raspberry pi's I setup a samba share, is this possible on Wipy?
Cheers!

[robert-hh]

@robmarkcole With some file managers you can mount the ftp service as network share, for instance with Linux Nautilus and Thunar, Os X Mountainduck, and obviously all dedicated ftp clients like ftp, FileZilla, FireFTP, ...

[bucknall]

Hi @robmarkcole

Our Plugins for GitHub's Atom Editor will be coming out very shortly. I would recommend downloading Atom and then using FileZilla to push your code up to your WiPy.

Check out my Alex's Corner series to see how I use Atom & FileZilla to push code up to my Pycom boards!

Cheers,

Alex

[robmarkcole]

@bucknall Thanks, will do! I am actually doing my development on a raspberry pi 3 running ubuntu, and wasn't able to install Atom. Therefore I should develop on my mac, but the irritating thing is the need to connect to the Wipy wifi for file transfers. Is there anyway to keep open the connection to the Wipy (other than serial as I want to do FTP) AND remain connected to my home internet.? If I recall, with micropython a board can create a web page with the REPL and file transfer, with the board just connected to the local network.. https://micropython.org/webrepl/
Cheers!

[RobTuDelft]

@robmarkcole I use a secondary (Wi-Fi) adapter to connect to the Wipy/Lopy. This way you can be connected to the internet and the Wipy at the same time. Tp-link offers some good choices, also when you're on a budget.

[robmarkcole]

@RobTuDelft Thanks Rob, can you link the adapter you have so I can understand better? I have one of these sitting around https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01AL7P1FU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[bucknall]

@robmarkcole What I would recommend is that you configure the WiPy to automatically connect to your home network and then use an FTP client to connect and upload code when you're ready to push it to your device.

You can keep doing your code development on the Raspberry Pi 3, you will just need an FTP client on the RPi3 to send your code to the WiPy. You can run the following command from terminal to install an FTP client:

$ apt-get install ftp

You can use this to talk to the WiPy once it's connected over your wifi network!

Let me know how you get on with this!

Cheers,

Alex

[RobTuDelft]

@robmarkcole I use a lot of TL-WN722N adapters, especially because they are cheap and reliable (and support some other features such as monitor mode).

What Alex suggested is also a good option, but unfortunately not always possible when you are not at home (e.g. I need special permission to use any device on the educational network).