Fly Pi OS setup
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Fly Pi initial setup

Connect to the Fly Pi by serial over USB

Install CH340 driver

  • Download and install the CH340 driver.
  • Connect the Fly Pi by USB to your PC using the USB C port marked in red.
USB port
USB port
  • Open device manager, expand ports, and note the com port number of the device labeld CH340
Find the port number for the CH340 device.
Find the port number for the CH340 device.

Connect to the Fly Pi over serial.

  • Open putty and configure a session as follows
  • Serial line: Use COM port from the CH340 device listed in device manager.
  • Speed: 115200
  • Connection type: serial
Configure Putty for serial
Configure Putty for serial
  • Click ‘Open’ to start the session.
Connect to the Gemini over serial.
Connect to the Gemini over serial.

Configure Wifi using nmtui

  • Run the following command to start the Network Manager TUI 
     nmtui
  • Select ‘Activate a connection’
Select activate
Select activate
  • Select your WiFi network from the list of discovered networks.
Select your wifi network
Select your wifi network
  • Enter your WiFi password
Enter your WiFi password
Enter your WiFi password
  • Exit nmtui

Find the IP address

  • Run IP to get the Fly Pi IP address. 
    ip address show wlan0
Find the IP address
Find the IP address
  • Note the IP for the next step.

Connect to the Fly Pi over SSH.

  • Open Putty and configure a new session
    • Host name: Use the IP listed in the last step.
    • Port: 22
    • Connection type: ssh
  • Click ‘open’ to start the session.
  • Log on with the username ‘fly’ and the password ‘mellow’
SSH to the Gemini
SSH to the Gemini

Set the password

  • Run the following command to reset the default password
 passwd
  • Enter the current password you used to log on.
  • Enter your new password.
  • Confirm your new password

Install Bonjour support

Bonjour will allow the Fly Pi to respond to it’s hostname. The defaut hostname is ‘flygemini.local’

  • Run the following commands to update and install Bonjour support.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install avahi-daemon
  • When complete your Fly Pi will respond to local dns queries for it’s hostname.

Install PySerial

If you plan to use CanBoot you may want to istall pyserial.

pip3 install pyserial

Setup is now complete

Continue on to the next section Configuring Klipper

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