zedstarr / PsiPi

Some Pi scripts and Psion OPL to link the Psion MC400 to the internet via an attached Raspberry Pi

Home Page:http://bit.ly/MC400cxf

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Tweeting in action on MC400

PsiPi

Some Pi shell scripts and Psion OPL to link the Psion MC400 to "the internet" via a Raspberry Pi and enable simple email/tweet sending and image conversion.

see http://bit.ly/MC400cxf for more details

Some prerequisites:

  1. on the Pi - dosbox-x, rainbowstream, msmtp, imagemagick, rclone - all installed and configured. Psion DOS programs MCLINK.EXE and WSPCX.EXE
  2. on the MC400 - "The Link" is running, MAIL.OPO to send emails, TWEET.OPO to send tweets and SRCN_SAV.OPO to transfer SCREEN.PIC files
  3. physical connectivity - MC400 serial port connected to Raspberry Pi to /dev/ttyUSB0 with USB-serial adapter that supports DSR/DTR e.g. the Prolific PL2303
  4. rclone is configured to sync to Google drive. Image conversion syncs all images and also uses bitly's API to shorten the Google drive links.

Transferring screenshots on the MC400

Helper scripts running watching for files written from the MC400

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Some Pi scripts and Psion OPL to link the Psion MC400 to the internet via an attached Raspberry Pi

http://bit.ly/MC400cxf


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