My entry for the Internet of Holiday Lights is an electro-mechanical wreath.
My first blog post was a brain dump of possibilities.
In my second post I made a paper prototype.
This time I'm setting up the Arduino Yún.
There's an easter egg in this post.
Software Setup
Well, that was easy. I already had Arduino IDE1.5.8 installed. The Yún requires 1.5.6 or higher, so that was ok.
The next package needed is Apple Bonjour. The IDE uses that to find the Arduino Yún on the wifi network. I simply installed it and didn't look into it any further.
Getting the Yún connected to the home wifi
That was simple too 
. I followed the arduino.cc instructions, and that worked for me without too much hassle.
Any hick-ups during the setup were due to my own mistakes. If you follow the guide step by step you should be good.
The only tests I've done at this moment are to load a sketch via wifi (worked!) and ssh/telnet into the linux shell (works too!).
PuTTY Setup
I have a PuTTY installed on my pc. That 'll do for the moment.
The arduino.cc instructions explain that you need to submit two commands in PuTTY to connect to the Yún, but it's simpler than that.
You just have to set the following settings and save them for later use, and you'll be fine:
Session:
Host name or IP address: <your Yún name>.local
Port: 22
Connection Type: SSH
Saved session name: Yún
Connection:Data:
Auto-login user name: root
go back to the Session category, and press Save.
You now have all the settings to get you connected via SSH and have a session into linux as root.
When you <Open> the session and enter the password on the linux prompt, you're in:
This is another step for me to get closer to the Christmas Wreath of Things. I can't wait to start diving into the Eclipse IoT services...
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