Comments on: Playing with GC100

By: Zaerc

Zaerc — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:28:32 +0000

Thanks, that was very helpfull in connecting my gc100 to LinuxMCE-1.1 RC1.

I noticed that the pluto wiki seems to fix this by manually configuring it through the web admin. Just makes me wonder, could there be different versions of the gc100 firmware around? Or does this simply fail for everyone…

By: Michael Stepanov

Michael Stepanov — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:44:23 +0000

Thanks a lot, Sam, for your suggestion. I’ll try again with your approach tonight.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:18:03 +0000

Maybe I can help here… I had similar issues and found out that the MAC address detection was not working, so I hardcoded it in the script /usr/pluto/bin/gc100-conf.pl

replacing this:

sub get_gc100mac {
`curl http://192.168.1.70/Commands.cgi -o gc100mac1 –silent`;
`curl http://192.168.1.101/Commands.cgi -o gc100mac2 –silent`;

by this:

sub get_gc100mac {
return “00-0C-1E-00-84-D1″;
`curl http://192.168.1.70/Commands.cgi -o gc100mac1 –silent`;
`curl http://192.168.1.101/Commands.cgi -o gc100mac2 –silent`;

From then on the gc100 was recognized and configured by plutohome.
I have not played with the relays or infrared or serial port yet…