It has occurred to me that I should have a way of keeping the functionality of the Chumby intact, i.e. being able to run the Flash Apps, as well as changing the Chumby to be able to operate in several modes for robotics work. The key is probably in the debugchumby file on a spare USB drive. I think that I need the following cases:
(1) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "normal" mode, with connections to the work wireless via a capture port
(2) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "normal" mode, but having a wireless access port / USB ethernet capability (for home use)
(3) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "robotics" mode, having a wireless access port, no ethernet, not running Flash Apps, with a web server, with ROS routines launched and connection to external Ubuntu Laptop running ROS routines and/or downloading of software loads
(4) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "robotics" mode, not running Flash Apps, launching internal ROS routines (totally autonomous)
(5) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "robotics" mode, having a wireless access port, no ethernet, not running Flash Apps, launching internal ROS routines (totally autonomous) [mode for communicating with other robots running ROS]
The deal is to have each of these setups available on separate USB drives with the proviso that they put the Chumby into a known state before setting up the mode. I will attempt to do this with some scripts in the debugchumby script on the drive.
(1) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "normal" mode, with connections to the work wireless via a capture port
(2) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "normal" mode, but having a wireless access port / USB ethernet capability (for home use)
(3) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "robotics" mode, having a wireless access port, no ethernet, not running Flash Apps, with a web server, with ROS routines launched and connection to external Ubuntu Laptop running ROS routines and/or downloading of software loads
(4) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "robotics" mode, not running Flash Apps, launching internal ROS routines (totally autonomous)
(5) Set up files to put the Chumby in a "robotics" mode, having a wireless access port, no ethernet, not running Flash Apps, launching internal ROS routines (totally autonomous) [mode for communicating with other robots running ROS]
The deal is to have each of these setups available on separate USB drives with the proviso that they put the Chumby into a known state before setting up the mode. I will attempt to do this with some scripts in the debugchumby script on the drive.
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