Comments on: Building a Wifi Radio – Part 6, A Conversation with Mpd http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/ Join the resistance. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:31:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: peter http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/comment-page-1/#comment-4969 peter Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:43:41 +0000 http://mightyohm.com/blog/?p=712#comment-4969 I would like to use the second serial port on /dev/tts/1. Any idea how to set this up? Where to connect to? I would like to use the second serial port on /dev/tts/1. Any idea how to set this up? Where to connect to?

]]> By: Gene http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/comment-page-1/#comment-3686 Gene Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:45:19 +0000 http://mightyohm.com/blog/?p=712#comment-3686 Hi Jeff, I'm following your great project up to this point. I got the header pins installed, but I couldn't get it to talk to the Sparkfun FTDI basic breakout 3.3v that I got. Perhaps I broke a trace while desoldering. I went ahead and installed openwrt using one of the ethernet ports and the packages using wireless telnet and it's working! Your instructions are great. If i can't fix the header, can I use a USB hub and USB serial to talk to the arduino? If so, can you point me in the right direction? Many thanks. Hi Jeff, I’m following your great project up to this point. I got the header pins installed, but I couldn’t get it to talk to the Sparkfun FTDI basic breakout 3.3v that I got. Perhaps I broke a trace while desoldering.

I went ahead and installed openwrt using one of the ethernet ports and the packages using wireless telnet and it’s working! Your instructions are great.

If i can’t fix the header, can I use a USB hub and USB serial to talk to the arduino? If so, can you point me in the right direction?

Many thanks.

]]> By: me http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/comment-page-1/#comment-3526 me Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:37:42 +0000 http://mightyohm.com/blog/?p=712#comment-3526 awesome project! thanks for documenting this so well. i have a question about the serial port though; do i HAVE to install this? i had fiddled with dd-wrt firmwares for the 520gu before, and am comfortable tftp'ing a firmware file into the router, and subsequent configuring, but do i have to use a serial interface to interact with it? can i not just upload a pre-compiled open-wrt binary firmware file, and telnet/ssh into the wee beast to install/configure smb, mpd, mpc et al? this would be ideal, for i am not a truly reliable solder-er, and would like to avoid hardware hacking if i could.. is this possible? much thanks again.. me awesome project! thanks for documenting this so well.

i have a question about the serial port though; do i HAVE to install this? i had fiddled with dd-wrt firmwares for the 520gu before, and am comfortable tftp’ing a firmware file into the router, and subsequent configuring, but do i have to use a serial interface to interact with it? can i not just upload a pre-compiled open-wrt binary firmware file, and telnet/ssh into the wee beast to install/configure smb, mpd, mpc et al? this would be ideal, for i am not a truly reliable solder-er, and would like to avoid hardware hacking if i could.. is this possible?

much thanks again..
me

]]> By: Dan http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 Dan Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:34:50 +0000 http://mightyohm.com/blog/?p=712#comment-2538 Aha, thanks for clearing that up Aha, thanks for clearing that up

]]> By: Jeff http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/comment-page-1/#comment-2532 Jeff Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:18:06 +0000 http://mightyohm.com/blog/?p=712#comment-2532 Dan, The USB-audio adapter is connected to the USB port of the router, while the serial port we're using in this part is the one that we connect to via the 4-pin header inside the router. So there isn't a conflict. If you wanted to use an external USB to serial converter instead (which is definitely doable), then you'd have to add a USB hub to the router to get a second USB port so you could have USB audio and USB serial at the same time. Dan,

The USB-audio adapter is connected to the USB port of the router, while the serial port we’re using in this part is the one that we connect to via the 4-pin header inside the router. So there isn’t a conflict.

If you wanted to use an external USB to serial converter instead (which is definitely doable), then you’d have to add a USB hub to the router to get a second USB port so you could have USB audio and USB serial at the same time.

]]> By: Dan http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/building-a-wifi-radio-part-6-a-conversation-with-mpd/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 Dan Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:02:29 +0000 http://mightyohm.com/blog/?p=712#comment-2531 Hi Jeff- this looks good, but isn't the serial port already going to be busy sending audio information to the USB Stereo Audio Adapter? How can both the audio-out and the song display be used at the same time? Hi Jeff- this looks good, but isn’t the serial port already going to be busy sending audio information to the USB Stereo Audio Adapter? How can both the audio-out and the song display be used at the same time?

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