Most of the same steps used to build the Silvermoon browser would also apply to a Falconwing/Chumby One browser, with most of the changes being related to the touchscreen support.

The main reason that you don't see much activity around browsers for the smaller devices is that they're too small to be much more than a "talking dog"-type novelty.

You can use the prebuilt Silvermoon web browser USB image mentioned above, with the following modifications to get the browser running on Chumby One.

1. download http://files.chumby.com/hacks/switch_output to the USB drive
2. Use the following debugchumby instead:

The fonts will be very small and colors may be off, but it works.

Hello,

thanks for that discription. Now my question - what have I to do to get the touchscreen on a Chumby Classic working. :-)

If I use the silvermoon script, I see the browser, but the touchscreen is not working. If I use the chumby one script, even the browser is not working, I see only a destructed picture.

If I use this description (its very old) http://www.jespersaur.com/drupal/node/30 and start ./ts_calibrate I get only the error "ts_open: No such file or directory"...

Some ideas?

Thanks,
dydimos

i wish we could just ditch the control panel/flash and just set th browser full screen as a kiosk device. chumby please rewrite a javascript/cgi control panel and ditch this stupid flash thing already.

I must be missing a step here...

I'm trying to get the browser running on a Falconwing.  Downloaded the Silvermoon USB image, extracted it to the root of a USB drive, changed debugchumby to the correct commands for Falconwing, and added the switch_output file to the drive.  Plugged the drive into the Chumby and rebooted.

Unfortunately, it freezes on the "Chumby" screen that comes up on boot right before the control panel is downloaded.  What am I missing?

Thanks, Ken.  Unfortunately that gets me the same result:  the device boots up, the Chumby hexapus winks at me, then freezes in place.  The drive is active for a second -- it has a light on it, so I know it's being read -- but then ceases activity and nothing happens again.  I let it sit for 10 minutes before taking the drive out and rebooting.

Don't know if it could be the actual drive I'm using or not -- there's plenty of space (1 GB) and it's not formatted in any special type other than the usual.

Thanks Ken for the files for the USB stick, it worked great.  I took a few pictures of my home control software running on the infocast in the browser.

I now have bedside control
Any chance that this could become an app?

Thanks again!!!

It looks like you've unpacked the zip file to the wrong location.  It's possible that when you unzipped the image, your unzip utility created it's own directory.  The root of the USB drive should look like this:

chumby:~# ls -l /mnt/usb/
total 23232
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         16384 Sep  8 13:37 bin
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           623 Sep  8 13:37 debugchumby
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         16384 Sep  8 13:37 demos
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         16384 Sep  8 13:37 etc
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         16384 Sep  8 13:37 lib
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         16384 Sep  8 13:37 plugins
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         16384 Sep  8 13:37 ssl
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          6674 Sep  8 13:37 switch_output

Try starting with a freshly formatted (FAT32) USB drive, insert it into your Falconwing, ssh into the device and do:

cd /mnt/usb
wget http://files.chumby.com/browser/chumby_falconwing_browser-1.0.zip
unzip chumby_falconwing_browser-1.0.zip
sync

Then simply run:

/mnt/usb/debugchumby

or reboot the device.

Javascript keyboard:
http://www.greywyvern.com/code/javascript/keyboard

Ken,

Awesome job! I downloaded the USB image and tried it on my Infocast. Works like a charm. I was surprised how fast it runs. Glad I had a spare USB keyboard and an old Palm Pilot stylus around. Is there a way a non-coder could save their own bookmarks?

Thanks!

Thanks for the answer. I was hoping for something simple as editing the bookmarks file.