Navio2 Stretch Image GUI Setup

Ethan_T_Daniels · October 14, 2017, 10:15am

Hello Everyone!

I am looking to setup the Navio2 with a RaspberryPi with the Stretch image provided in the tutorials. I have successfully set this up and have it running ArduRover 3.2.

I was wondering if there is a way to enable the Raspbian GUI?

I have already attempted to change the boot sequence on the Pi through sudo raspy-config; though when it boots it will show a login screen, once logged in the RPi just reboots.

Any help would be very useful

george.staroselskiy · October 15, 2017, 7:11am

Our Raspbian image is very much similar to Raspbian-lite that doesn’t have GUI by default because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to enable GUI on an autopilot. Nevertheless, it can be done.

sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods

Luis_Vale_Goncalves · October 15, 2017, 7:53pm

Slightly unrelated, but can we safely remove the George dir ?? I guess so, but always good to ask

george.staroselskiy · October 15, 2017, 9:51pm

Wow! No idea how it slipped through. Yes, sure. I’ll delete in the release as well. Thanks for noticing. This is a left-over that of course should’ve been deleted.

Luis_Vale_Goncalves · October 15, 2017, 9:57pm

I might have missed it, but is there a guide/script that will install all the Navio2 related stuff on top of a “blank” Stretch image ? Even better would be to have a guide/script to recreate the image with everything (ArduPilot/ROS/MAVROS, etc )

brgds

Ethan_T_Daniels · October 15, 2017, 10:45pm

I agree! That would be a very useful feature. I’m attempting to use the Navio 2, Roboteq motor controller, HOKUYO Lidar and raspberry pi to create a intelligent geound vehicle for completion.

This is just my explanation for wanting to use GUI as it will allow me to setup ROS/SLAM.

george.staroselskiy · October 18, 2017, 10:00am

The change is just too vast and there hasn’t been a point to release the scripts. But I guess, there’s no point keeping you guys in the dark, so we’ll release in the next couple of weeks.

Luis_Vale_Goncalves · October 18, 2017, 11:49am

Thanks

Just for you guys to know, recently a couple of devs are gathering to extend the APSync/APWeb project, and also the Maverick project fnoop.github.io and I’m also extending that project to be able to run natively with the latest NavIO2 (Stretch) image as a base.

Side note:

Have you guys seen any strange behaviour on the servo output pins when using Copter ?

I have a TLog recorded where we can clearly see spurious values being outputted to Servo 9 to 14, while the pins that have motors assigned behave correctly.

If you feel necessary I can open a discussion on the forum.

Best regards