Installing Tuxdroid

From Tuxisalive

1 What do you need:
2 Step One: Connecting Tux Droid to your PC
3 Step Two: Installing tuxsetup
4 Step Three: Installing Text To Speech Voice files
5 Testing
6 Troubleshooting

[edit] What do you need:

A computer: with a USB port.
Linux: One of the user-friendly distros works best. Ubuntu and things like that.
TuxSetup: Official Downloads
Acapela voice: Official Downloads
Root access: Sudo will work as well.

[edit] Step One: Connecting Tux Droid to your PC

How to connect Tux Doid to your PC correctly. Trivial for most, but even die-hard techies can once in a while overlook something ;)

Step 1.1: Connect the USB fish dongle with the provided USB cable to your PC.

The blue LED in the dongle will start to blink slowly with regular intervals. In this mode the dongle is initialized and is looking for Tux Droid to connect to.

Step 1.2: Plug in the power cable.

The batteries might be quite low at the first use, so better use the provided transformer and connect it with the power jack in the tail of Tux Droid (under the power switch).

Step 1.3: Turn the power switch on Tux Droid in the "on" position.

Tux will greet you by flapping his flippers and saying "hello". Note that the LED in the USB dongle will flicker very fast and that the blue LED's in the eyes of Tux Droid will be lit. This means both the USB dongle and Tux Droid are connected trough the radio link. That is all there is to it. During normal operation the USB dongle should keep flickering quickly and the LED's of Tux Droid should remain lit (unless they are turned off manually or when using behavior scripts).

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[edit] Step Two: Installing tuxsetup

Step 2.1: Download the latest tuxsetup package from the download page. Official Downloads

Currently a debian and tar.gz file are made available for the 1.2 Beta. Which runs stable enough for anyone. The older 1.1 is available in .deb, .rpm or .tar.gz

Step 2.2: Install the package.

On most machines installing the debian and rpm tuxsetup package should be quite easy. Double click tuxsetup and a graphical package manager should pop up and take care of everything. If not, you can do the following:

For Ubuntu/Debian users:

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/your/downloaded/tuxsetup_1.2-30_i386.deb

For the tar.gz people: (aka the rest )

tar xvzf /path/to/your/downloaded/tuxsetup-1.2.0030-beta.tar.gz
cd tuxsetup-1.2.0030-beta
sudo make install

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[edit] Step Three: Installing Text To Speech Voice files

Step 3.1: Download a voice you like from theOfficial Downloads

You can choose between the debian package and the tar.gz version.

Step 3.2: Install the voice:

For Ubuntu/Debian users: Download the .deb version and double click it

For the tar.gz people: (aka the rest ) For this example i`m using the USEnglish voice.

tar xvzf /path/to/your/downloaded/tuxdroid-tts-voices.USEnglish.tar.gz 
cd tuxdroid-tts-voices.USEnglish
sudo ./WIZARD

Awnser the questions and you are done! ( Just say yes... )

Step 3.3: Restart the programs:

If your dongle is connected, unplug it, wait a couple of seconds and plug it back in. The new TTS voice will now be enabled.

[edit] Testing

Great, now that you are this far its time for the best part. Seeing it all work! Try opening tuxgi, either through the link in your menu, or via the commandline. You should see something like: Media:Tuxgi.png Go ahead. play around.

[edit] Troubleshooting

The fish`s eyes dont light up:

If you don't get any LED activity, this means that somehow the USB device is not detected or can't be initialized. A common cause for this issue is that the usb audio device is still open from a previous session and blocks the detection of the dongle. Close all running audio applications or mixer panels to shut down the usb audio device of the previous session.