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Step 5Telnet into the G1 and test sending it commands
The phone should be ready for you to telnet into it and send it commands from your PC. It will print them to the phone's screen to confirm what it receives. I used PuTTY on Windows but we've confirmed that minicom works great on Macs as described in this instructable.
You will first need to find your phone's IP address. This is available by going to Menu > Settings > Wireless controls > Wi-Fi settings and then pressing the currently active connection. A pop-up toast message will come up with the current IP address on the local network. Write this down as you'll use this every time you want to open a telnet session from your PC. IP assignments typically expire after a certain number of days so you may need to check this again.
Note: This tutorial assumes your PC and phone are on the same local network. Routing to the phone from outside of the local network should be possible but is not covered here.
Open your telnet client of choice and connect to the IP of the phone on port 9002. From a command line you do this as "telnet 192.168.1.1 9002" using the actual IP of the phone. Type in some characters and hit enter to see them show up on the phone's screen. You can type a q to cause the Python script to quit, which should close your terminal session.
If for any reason you can't connect via telnet and need to kill the program, a simple reboot of the phone should do the trick. Advanced users may want to find the process ID via ps and then use kill to stop it.
Advanced: A future version of this could run a local web server from the phone rather than accepting commands via telnet. We're also exploring XMPP to chat with your robot.
You will first need to find your phone's IP address. This is available by going to Menu > Settings > Wireless controls > Wi-Fi settings and then pressing the currently active connection. A pop-up toast message will come up with the current IP address on the local network. Write this down as you'll use this every time you want to open a telnet session from your PC. IP assignments typically expire after a certain number of days so you may need to check this again.
Note: This tutorial assumes your PC and phone are on the same local network. Routing to the phone from outside of the local network should be possible but is not covered here.
Open your telnet client of choice and connect to the IP of the phone on port 9002. From a command line you do this as "telnet 192.168.1.1 9002" using the actual IP of the phone. Type in some characters and hit enter to see them show up on the phone's screen. You can type a q to cause the Python script to quit, which should close your terminal session.
If for any reason you can't connect via telnet and need to kill the program, a simple reboot of the phone should do the trick. Advanced users may want to find the process ID via ps and then use kill to stop it.
Advanced: A future version of this could run a local web server from the phone rather than accepting commands via telnet. We're also exploring XMPP to chat with your robot.
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