Hello! - New to pinoccio, trying to set up bridge mode without a lead scout

[dcmotty]

Hello,

My name is Tom and i recently bought 2 field scouts, I chose not to buy a lead scout initially to save money as I saw on the blog that now you can use "Bridge mode" to connect one field scout to the internet through the USB port. (with the intention of buying a Wifi backpack later when i needed one for a project)

Basically I'm having trouble setting up my troop using one of my field scouts as a lead scout using the Bridge mode in HQ, because the HQ only wants a lead scout to initially set up the troop.

Can any one give me quick step-by-step instructions to set up my troop without a lead scout? or perhaps a link to a tutorial as i cant find one anywhere.

Thanks!

[Ryan]

Hey.
Awesome that you plan on using bridge!

1. Install the pinoccio command line tool.
   Open terminal and run
   sudo npm install -g pinoccio

2. Then login to the api
   pinoccio login

3. Create a troop
   pinoccio rest post /v1/troop name=supertroop
   Save the information printed to the terminal you need the troop Id number (probably 1) and the troop token (a hash of letters and numbers)

4. Plug in your first scout it's time to configure it!
   Run pinoccio serial

5. Type
   

   hq.settoken("the troop token from above");
   mesh.setkey("the first 16 characters of your troop token");
   mesh.config(1,the troop id number);
   scout.boot;

6. Connect the bridge.
   Run pinoccio bridge

7. Go to hq and you should see your scout. You should be able to add your other field scout the regular way.

We are working on a faster way to do this with the cli tool I'm sure we'll post good instructions soon.
Hope this helps!

[Chris]

Note that the second serial command should be "mesh.setkey (first 16 characters)" not "hq.setkey"

[mondalaci]

@Ryan: Regarding 5) hq.setkey is supposed to be mesh.setkey and you accidentally exchanged the parameters of mesh.config -- scoutId comes first and troopId comes second.

Given the above corrections looks like it's working. Time to start to build my intelligent home, woohoo!

[Ryan]

great updated the post

[darylwm]

I followed these steps but in HQ I can't see my scouts or troops. Trying pinoccio rest get /v1/troops returns an empty array. What am I missing?

[darylwm]

Ah, I don't think my bridge was running properly. It didn't report any errors, but I thought it was odd that in verbose mode it wasn't showing any messages going back and forth. I'm on OS X, and I've found that I need to specify the device name, as in pinoccio bridge -v -d /dev/cu.usbmodem1d11. Now it's all good, and my scout appears in HQ.

[Ryan]

Awesome! we ran into this ourselves this week and will have a fix soon.

[Chuck_untulis]

sudo npm install -g pinoccio

Is this assuming that you are running on a Linux machine? What is the equivalent for a Windows7 machine?

[Ryan]

It should work on windows if you remove the "sudo" part. If you run into an issue open a ticket on the github repo https://github.com/pinoccio/client-node-pinoccio and ill help you out! I don't have a windows box setup right now for testing so it would be great to get bug reports.

[chehrnrooth]

Hi Ryan, having a small issue with the login, is it with my credentials or "pinoccio login"