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I've received mine a few days ago but it was quite a busy week so I didn't have enough time to play with it. First impressions: toh is great, the whole finish seems really professional (thanks so much dirk) and kimmoli's work on the software side is just genious (just in the thought that with the press of a dip switch I can run my custom bash scripts...)

I had a few problems with the stability of it and it seems that somehow occasionally the pins lose contact with the board (or something else is happening) and so I have to take off toh and put it back again. After removing the board from toh and putting some stickers between (following the advice of paper suggested above by kimmoli) the issue seems to be appearing less frequently. I have noticed though that sometimes after turning on the first dip it works but any other change won't until I refit toh.

From the example scripts provided by kimmoli those for display do not work simply because there is no mcetool in my jolla (fixed by installing it with pkcon: "pkcon install mce-tools") instead I added a simple script for enabling/unmasking disabling/masking aliendalvik which is extremely handy:

For Masking/disabling:
Code:
systemctl stop aliendalvik.service
systemctl mask aliendalvik.service
and for unmasking/enabling:
Code:
systemctl unmask aliendalvik.service
systemctl start aliendalvik.service
of course if you don't want to completely prevent aliendalvik from starting you can remove the mask/unmask commands.

Now I wish I knew of a way for enabling/disabling the led flashlight from the command line....

Question: Do we need to keep i2ctool installed after we finish the initial process of setting up the diptoh?

Last edited by MemphisX; 2014-09-20 at 02:47.