Project14 | Live Stream & MATRIX Creator Giveaway: You Decide the Topics!

Thank you for Voting! Live Stream Title has been Announced:

Home Automation Using the MATRIX Creator: an element14 Story: Episode 1

Presented by Community Members!

Special Guest MATRIX Labs and a Project14 Show & Tell from Sean_Miller & gam3t3ch !

Keep the conversation flowing and feel free to vote on a topic of interest to you. You could still win a MATRIX Creator for making this discussion memorable!

We'll be giving away MATRIX Creators for questions that lead to a great discussion!

Top Comments

samreen.islam over 6 years ago in reply to jr1284@nova.edu

Hi Jose,

Thank you for your feedback!

We currently support Raspbian Stretch and our basic libraries work for their intended purpose i.e. retrieve data from sensors, control LEDs, GPIO configurations etc in C++, Python, JavaScript and Golang.

We are working to improve more advanced libraries like Zigbee and Z-Wave, and toggling of devices currently works.

We are constantly improving our libraries, making new projects with different use cases, and integrating with third party services. You can follow us on Twitter to receive updates on these.

Our community is very diverse in their ideas and initiatives, and there are so many possibilities with our boards, so each day we face unique problems that we try to solve together!

Please feel free to check out our documentation, live streams, or post on our community for support with your projects using your MATRIX device. Happy making!

Best,
Samreen
- Cancel
- Vote Up +2 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
jr1284@nova.edu over 6 years ago

I bought one of these but every week I see people complaining that they can't get it to work with this or that.
Perhaps they released this too early and didn't get all the bugs in the software. I hope in the near future
they come up with some improvements in their software. Seeing other applications might be very useful.
- Cancel
- Vote Up 0 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
fyaocn over 6 years ago in reply to samreen.islam

I have tried almost all the solution.
--fix-missing is to save time for Dependancy Resolve.
It really takes me time to find out that,
a) The HAL lib for matrix Creator is good, but the problem is in Raspbian Strech. There have been many new features other than that of Jessie. Especially after including SNAP installation. The www.ustc.edu.cn is one of mirror sites for raspbian, it synchronizes everyday with MAIN retro.
After rull out the possiblility of ANTI-VIRUS or other Proxy SCREEN MECHNISM, it can be concluded that in this case, some files missing in the RASPBIAN site. So, there is little you can do other than waiting for new UPGRADE from RASPBIAN mirrors.
b) Here is the assumption,
Since apt-get intall maxtrio-creator-init fails without apt-get install upgrade first, you can test by not strictly defining version of DEPENDACY PACKAGES. It may works. And test the HAL package in other Debian-like OS, it may works. I will test later in ubuntu-Mate and Debian-ARM.
- Cancel
- Vote Up +2 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
jomoenginer over 6 years ago in reply to samreen.islam
The address that is failing does not appear to be the one for the mirror that is added to the .list files.
```
nslookup www.ustc.edu.cn


Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.ustc.edu.cn
Address: 218.104.71.168
```
Also, there is a new snapshotindex.txt that was updated yesterday so perhaps if there was an issue the server was being backed up.
http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/raspbian/
- Cancel
- Vote Up +3 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
samreen.islam over 6 years ago in reply to vimarsh_

Hi vimarsh_,

Are the errors you are referring to similar to the ones F. Yao posted?
- Cancel
- Vote Up +1 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
samreen.islam over 6 years ago in reply to fyaocn

Hello,

You are having trouble with the Picroft installation? Have you tried --fix-missing like it suggests in the terminal? Sometimes that helps.

Best,
Samreen
- Cancel
- Vote Up +1 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
vimarsh_ over 6 years ago in reply to fyaocn

Ya I am facing the same issue.
Although if I flash the image matrix provides. The Matrix_Dev_Day_final then it works
but on fresh linux, it causes errors in installation
- Cancel
- Vote Up 0 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
fyaocn over 6 years ago

There have been some problems with MATRIX installation. It appears that some file missing (possibly, systemd-sysv ) in the Sketch Mirror site, even I have changed /etc/apt/source.list sereral time.
So the matrixio-creater-init can not be installed with package.
It would be better if build from source would be released later, for more other OS like Ubuntu or Centos on RP3.
- Cancel
- Vote Up 0 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
jomoenginer over 6 years ago in reply to samreen.islam

Samreen,

Much of the site looks good and you all have been doing a great job improving it.

However, here is a link that results in a 404 error from, although this is for Matrix OS:
https://matrix-io.github.io/matrix-documentation/matrix-os/getting-started/installation/

This comes from the MATRIX - Developers page under Getting Started.
https://www.matrix.one/developers

If I note others I will post on the Matrix site.
- Cancel
- Vote Up +2 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
beacon_dave over 6 years ago in reply to Gough Lui

"or give an indication of where a person is in the room from their speech"

I recall a couple of student AVR projects using 3 microphones for sound localisation:

Sound-localizing camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwi-TFy5Dk

Impulse sound tracker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsMbl1AFXw

May be interesting to replicate using the 8 mics on the MATRIX Creator ?
- Cancel
- Vote Up +2 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel