That's exactly the same problem I'm experiencing.  I have tried a couple different versions of the executable referenced earlier in this thread but all have the same result regardless of whether touchscreen calibration runs or not.  Hopefully one of the experts will steer us in the right direction soon.

Scott

So how could someone set it up to terminate the browser and restart the control panel?  Would it be possible to write a program that senses the button on top of the 3.5 devices or maybe shaking via the accelerometer?  I don't know that the 8" has any type of physical button or shake sensor.  Maybe some kind of multi-finger gesture on the touch pad?

Anybody can help building qt?  I am getting errors when running configure about failed testing tslib but I am pretty sure I included the proper paths for the headers and libs.

No one seems to have any thoughts on this. I was hoping to use this to run my home automation software via web browser. I'll see if I can return my Infocast.

Thanks

Yes, my version numbers match what you have. Not sure on the silvermoon/8"? Is that just the 8" Infocast? I would like to try mounting it to the hard drive but am clueless when it comes to linux.

Hello all,

I have been able to get the browser to run succesfully on my Best Buy 3.5 inch from onboard storage (no USB disc required -- in fact it probably won't work on one).  This also resolved my inverted touchscreen and scaling problems.

Here's instructions as to how I got it to cooperate.  I think I've got the script set up below so that it will go download any scripts it needs but your mileage may vary.  Here goes:

1) Download http://files.chumby.com/browser/chumby_ … er-1.0.zip to your device and unzip it to /mnt/storage/web

   - SSH into your Chumby and type the following commands

   cd /mnt/storage
   mkdir web
   cd web
   wget http://files.chumby.com/browser/chumby_silvermoon_browser-1.0.zip
   unzip chumby_silvermoon_browser-1.0.zip

2) Create browser.sh
   

vi browser.sh

   - Press 'i' to enter insert mode
   - Copy the code from this post below
   - in your terminal / vi paste the code with CTRL+v, CTRL+SHIFT+v or whatever is appropriate for your OS
   - Press ESC to exit insert mode
   - type :wq to write changes and quit vi

3) Make browser.sh executable
   

chmod +x browser.sh

4) Run browser.sh
   

./browser.sh

Once you've done this then you can launch the browser in the future by SSH into your chumby and typing

cd /mnt/storage/web
./browser.sh

Other notes:
You can change the "homepage" by editing browser.sh, changing http://www.chumby.com with your preferred homepage

If you prefer a chrome-less browsing experience then you'll need to download wv_falconwing by doing

wget http://files.chumby.com/browser/wv_falconwing

and uncommenting line 63 (remove the # sign) and commenting line 60 (add a # sign)

Scott

browser.sh

    #!/bin/sh

    # Stop the control panel
    stop_control_panel
    
    # Select framebuffer 0
    switch_fb.sh 0
    
    # Download the script if neccesary, then select the LCD as output
    if [ ! -e /mnt/storage/web/switch_output ]; then
        wget http://files.chumby.com/hacks/switch_output
    fi
    /mnt/storage/web/switch_output -l

    # Disable the stock touchscreen driver
    rmmod stmp3xxx_ts
    
    # Activate the scaled touchscreen driver
    modprobe stmp3xxx_ts scaled_touchscreen=1

    # Append the library path environment variable where we've installed everything
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/storage/web/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    
    # If /mnt/storage/browser_etc doesn't exist, create it by copying /etc
    if [ ! -e /mnt/storage/browser_etc ]; then
        cp -rP /etc /mnt/storage/browser_etc
    fi
    
    # One of the files expects to find fonts on the USB stick and I couldn't find an environment variable to specify a new location.
    # This creates a directory where it expects and copies the files there.    
    if [ ! -e /mnt/usb/lib/fonts ]; then
        mkdir /mnt/usb
        mkdir /mnt/usb/lib
        mkdir /mnt/usb/lib/fonts
        cp -r /mnt/storage/web/lib/fonts/* /mnt/usb/lib/fonts
    fi
    
    # Make /mnt/storage/browser_etc look like /etc
    mount -t loop -o bind /mnt/storage/browser_etc /etc

    # Create /mnt/storage/web/root and make it look like /root
    mkdir -p /mnt/storage/web/root
    mount -t loop -o bind /mnt/storage/web/root /root

    # Set environment variables so TSLIB and QT can find things and play nicely together
    export TSLIB_CONFFILE=/mnt/storage/web/etc/ts.conf                # Where the touchscreen configuration file is
    export TSLIB_CALIBFILE=/etc/pointercal                    # Where the calibration file is
    export POINTERCAL_FILE=/etc/pointercal                    # Where the calibration file is
    export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/by-id/soc-noserial-event-ts        # Where TSLIB should look for the touchscreen device
    export TSLIB_PLUGINDIR=/mnt/storage/web/lib/ts                # Where TSLIB can find touchscreen plugins
    export QWS_MOUSE_PROTO=Tslib:$TSLIB_TSDEVICE                # Make QT use TSLIB as the pointer device

    # If there is no calibration file, run ts_calibrate
    if [ ! -e /etc/pointercal ]; then
        /mnt/storage/web/bin/ts_calibrate
        sync
    fi

    # Launch a browser (with chrome) starting at the address specified inside quotes
    /mnt/storage/web/demos/browser/browser -qws 'http://www.chumby.com'
    
    # Comment out the above line and uncomment the line below to use a webview instead of a browser (AKA full-screen browsing of the specified address)
#    /mnt/storage/web/demos/browser/wv_falconwing -qws 'http://www.chumby.com' 

    # Uncomment the last 3 lines to automatically relaunch the browser on a crash or accidental exit.
#    while [ 1 ] ; do
#      /mnt/storage/web/demos/browser/browser -qws 'www.chumby.com'
#    done

johnnybwis,

You're also on an 8 inch, I don't have any hardware to test on for that.  I thought you were using a 3.5"  Sorry, I'm not sure how much help I'm going to be able to be...

Scott

Figured out what MattDog was doing. Under the hidden menu (in control panel, press "Insignia in the upper left" and then "pi" in the upper right), there is a FBCGI button. It calls the script /usr/chumby/scripts/fb_cgi.sh. Simply replace the contents of this script with that of startbrowser.sh (aka copy startbrowser.sh to this directory and rename it fb_cgi.sh). You will now have a way to start the browser within the control panel.

Anyone working on a method to monitor the snooze button to allow it to kill the QT/Webkit browser and restart the control panel?

John

Success!  I have been able to modify browser.sh so that turning the encoder (volume control) "a few" clicks will exit the browser and restart the control panel.  Here's how I did it in 3 easy steps:

Step 1

Create a file called browserkill.sh in the same directory as your startbrowser or debugchumby script

#! /bin/ash

hexdump /dev/input/event2 -n 64 >/dev/null
kill $1

All this little script does is open the encoder device, wait for 64 bytes of data, and return.  Redirecting the output to /dev/null throws out anything that hexdump decides to print (what its actually designed for).  Once hexdump returns the script executes the kill command with the 1st command line argument.  Now we have to modify browser.sh

Step 2

Modify browser.sh (or debugchumby or whatever your start browser script is) in the following manner:
locate the line near the bottom of the script that actually launches the browser

    # Launch a browser (with chrome) starting at the address specified...
    /mnt/storage/web/demos/browser/browser -qws 'http://www.chumby.com'

Directly above the line noted above add a new line with ./browserkill.sh $$ &
Next, add "exec " to the front of the browser launching line

    # Launch a browser (with chrome) starting at the address specified...
    ./browserkill.sh $$ &                                                       
    exec /mnt/storage/web/demos/browser/browser -qws 'http://www.chumby.com'

So here what we're doing is calling our browserkill script created in step 1, passing it the system variable $$ (which expands to the PID of the current process), and telling it to run in the background (the & sign at the end).  Adding exec to the front of the browser line makes the browser replace the current process (the one that we gave to the browserkill script).

So at this point we have browserkill.sh running in the background (just waiting for input -- the encoder wheel), and the browser running normally.  When you turn the encoder "a few" clicks the browserkill script will execute the kill command and the browser will shut down.  So what to do next?  ON TO STEP 3

STEP 3

Last modification.  Wherever you call your browser.sh script (or whatever you called it), add ;start_control_panel or ;reboot to the end.  So if your script is called browser.sh it will look like

browser.sh;start_control_panel

The semicolon just says "this is a new command" so its the same as typing it on two lines at the console.  As soon as browser.sh exits (killed by our browserkill.sh process) the 2nd command will run.  start_control_panel will be faster, but reboot will make sure that any memory leaks are cleaned up (since the unit is rebooting).

Hope this helps!
Scott

FULL SCREEN MODE

I did the USB toggle download and am able to run the web browser.  I see from a post above it is possible to start the browser in full screen..

        Additionally, if you would like to remove the window chrome (min/max/close buttons and   bar), you can do so by calling browser->showFullScreen() in the same function:
BrowserMainWindow *BrowserApplication::newMainWindow()
{
    BrowserMainWindow *browser = new BrowserMainWindow();
    m_mainWindows.prepend(browser);
    browser->resize( 800, 600 );
    browser->showFullScreen();
    browser->show();
    return browser;
}

How do I do this?  Is there a file on the USB that needs to be modified/replaced? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

THANKS

Hmmm, the USB drive should not get corrupted.  Can you try another USB drive and confirm that behavior?

one other symptom - file system becomes read-only on infocast