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add a mobile phone UI to your RaspberryPi project

Shown by dps on Mar 24, 2013. Click the card to turn it over.

26points

24comments

#871of 1,739 in 2013

Top 51%of 2013 by points

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3 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.

Idea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against

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Missing CherryPy dependency during install
From 3 comments
- Following manual setup instructions, with raspbian, you end up with 'ImportError: No module named cherrypy' when calling the demo script
  jabian on HN
- @dkp0h, Thanks I know how install a python module, actually pip does the job. My point is that it should be indicated on the requirementents of the piui installation. Just to…
  jabian on HN
- Great project. Just got it working. I have an Edimax 7811 module which of course didn't work being realtek based. I tried Paul's alternative hostapd and couldn't get joy out of…
  rbn1 on HN
Hard to configure nginx and access the UI
From 2 comments
- Can someone please give me some instructions on how to set PiUi u without turning the Pi into a access point? I installed Nginx and followed the do-it-yourself instructions from…
  Sevik on HN
- I had the same problem so I went through the nginx.conf file supplied with PiUi and compared it to the default one in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. In the default one there's an…
  jaws84 on HN
Wifi adapter compatibility issues
From 1 comment
- Great project. Just got it working. I have an Edimax 7811 module which of course didn't work being realtek based. I tried Paul's alternative hostapd and couldn't get joy out of…
  rbn1 on HN

Better installation documentation
From 3 comments
- @dkp0h, Thanks I know how install a python module, actually pip does the job. My point is that it should be indicated on the requirementents of the piui installation. Just to…
  jabian on HN
- Works great but:- 1) How do I stop the verbose on screen reporting (I use SSH) 2) How do I stop it once it is running - CTRL+C does not work and kill only sometimes works 3) Is…
  Pauldf on HN
- Can someone please give me some instructions on how to set PiUi u without turning the Pi into a access point? I installed Nginx and followed the do-it-yourself instructions from…
  Sevik on HN
iPhone app support
From 1 comment
- Cool! > There’s even an Android app to make connecting easy and show useful status info plus an iPhone webapp you can save to your homescreen. What does the Android app do to…
  amirnathoo on HN
Embedded charts such as highcharts
From 1 comment
- I appreciate that work of UI for rPi....i need it to show some datas with highcharts so i need to include html code with jquery...what would the way to do it ? thank you 4 your…
  dkp0h on HN

How to stop the server or verbose output
From 1 comment
- Works great but:- 1) How do I stop the verbose on screen reporting (I use SSH) 2) How do I stop it once it is running - CTRL+C does not work and kill only sometimes works 3) Is…
  Pauldf on HN
Whether it works over different networks
From 1 comment
- Does the phone have to be on the same WiFi network to connect to the http://piui/? More specifically, if the pi is running at my house and is connected to my home WiFi, can I run…
  Piquestion on HN
How to trigger OS commands from toggles
From 1 comment
- Hi, got a problem with toggles. I dont understand the code 100% If a toggle has the status "On" i would like to send an OS Command like os.system("send 11111 1 0") to toggle an…
  Blaster on HN

Flask or Rails web app hosted on the Pi
From 1 comment
- I like it! Although why would I use it over building a simple webapp hosted on the Pi by using existing server-side technologies such as Flask, Rails etc..
  platz on HN