Problem: Need galileo running on debian wheezy

Thu Mar 1 20:03:28 EST 2018

On Thursday 01 March 2018 15:31:32 Cousin Stanley wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I know its supposed to be in the debian stretch repo's.
> >
> > I've been told to get a fitbit, but they don't support linux
> > of any flavor, and that leaves galileo as the possible solution?
> >
> > So how should I proceed since the only stretch machine I have ATM
> > is an arm64, aka a rock64.
>> The galileo package is available under debian stretch
> on my rock64 ....
>> # apt-cache policy galileo
>> galileo:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 0.5.1-4
> Version table:
> 0.5.1-4 500
> 500 http://approx:9999/debian stretch/main arm64 Packages
>>> Package details ....
>> # apt-cache show galileo
>>> However, I have no clue as to its usage or effectiveness ....

Its supposed to be an interface that can talk to a fitbit. But the one I 
bought is wifi only I think since the usb clipon intended to be used for 
recharging it, has only 2 contacts. And the rock64 doesn't have wifi 
hardware that I know of. One of the reasons I bought a couple of them, 
as its required it be turned off on a pi for anything like rt-preempt 
use on a pi as its noise interferes with everything else but then found 
there is no simple "make install" for a realtime kernel thats doesn't 
just brick the sdcard. And everytime someone on the pine64 forum points 
me at another way to do it, I grab the sw, only to find its not been 
updated since 2012? I've wasted 250ドル so far trying.
Anyway, I'll bring in the 2nd one and see if an lshw shows a wifi with a 
minimal stretch +xfce install.
Quick answer, no. That leaves an r-pi3b, which does have wifi. But since 
its busy drowning frogs outside, I'll see if I can find a stretch 
install for it tomorrow. Currently has a jessie install.
So, is galileo shown for armhf's?
The reason for posting here is that galileo is supposedly written in 
python, but don't know if 2 or 3.
Thanks, Stanley.
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