Chumby tricks

NOTE - this page is for Ironforge production chumby devices - for alpha prototypes, please see Chumby Tricks for Foo/Katamari

Hidden screen in Control Panel

• Open the Control Panel, select "Settings", then "Chumby Info"
• In the upper right, you'll see a little "pi" symbol - touch it
• You'll a screen with some interesting buttons:
  • SSHD will launch the builtin Secure Shell Daemon
  • FILES will open up a simple file system browser
  • REBOOT will reboot the chumby device

Built in Web server

On startup, the chumby launches a small HTTP server on port 80, whish displays wireless statistics information - to view this page, get the IP of the chumby from the Settings->Chumby Info screen in the Control Panel, and type http://ip.of.the.chumby/ into a browser.

You can add CGI scripts to this webserver:

• Open a console on the chumby using SSH
• create a directory at '/psp/cgi-bin'
• add your CGI scripts there

You can now access those scripts using the URL http://ip.of.the.chumby/cgi-bin/custom/name_of_your_script

Custom Alarms

If you don't like the sound of the builtin alarms, you can override them with your own MP3 audio files

• Get a USB flash drive, and copy your MP3 file to the top level
• To override alarm 1, rename the file alarm1.mp3
• To override alarm 2, rename the file alarm2.mp3
• ...or to override both, rename the file alarm.mp3
• Plug the USB flash drive and boot your chumby - when the alarm goes o, it will use your files instead of the built in sounds

Don't make these files too big - no larger than a couple of megabytes.

Your own opening animation

If you'd like to replace the little chumby animation that happens when you start up, do the following:

• Make your Flash animation that you want to run, be sure it calls fscommand("quit") at the end
• Put it on a USB flash drive, and call it "opening.swf"
• Plug it into the back of your chumby and reboot!

Your own Control Panel

So, you're so ambitious, you created you *own* Control Panel! Congratulations! Here's how to use it:

• Put it on USB flash drive, and call it controlpanel.swf
• Plug it into the back of your chumby and reboot!

Launching sshd at startup

• Start up sshd on the chumby using the trick mentioned above
• At the console, type: touch /psp/start_sshd
• Now sshd will be started whenever the chumby successfully connects to a network!
• To stop this behavior in the future, type: rm /psp/start_sshd

If you don't want to happen all the time, you can do this instead from a USB flash drive:

• On the USB flash drive, create an empty file called start_sshd.
• Plug it into the back of your chumby and reboot!