I followed the instructions and watched the video. Much to my dismay I could not get this to work. I have had nothing but success with other flavors of OS's for the Pi.
I downloaded the setup files, I booted the PI, I watched the installation and the reboot.
Then came the FalconChristmas logo and a blank screen. Now what?
I scanned my network and found the Pi but with only TCP ports 21,22,139 and 445 open. No port 80.. the required port for a website (or 443). I did this with 2 different SD cards twice on each.
I was able to SSH and login to the Pi, look around and that was it.
I rebooted once more with earphones plugged into the audio jack I heard the TCP IP address announced. I heard not one, but 2 IP addresses announced. The DCHP address and the static address of 192.168.0.10.
Once I changed my local workstation to the 192.168.0.0 network, I was able to open bring up the FPP web interface on 192.168.0.10. Oddly enough after that, I was able to browse to the web interface on the DHCP address as well.
A future feature request would be to output the IP address to the screen as well as the audio jack.
if you got falconchristmas.com they have discussed this. the default os goes into screen blanking after 1 minute. i really dislike this feature.
if you type ALT-F1 on a keyboard you will get the boot screen back
if type AHLT-F2 you get your session back.
these are part of the linux os theya re using. they did not put this in themselves.
the reason that it speaks the ip address is so that you can hear what got assigned.
every pi player has 192.168.0.10 hardcoded to the pi. the second ip address is what tells me it works. in my case (remember my pi is on my home network), that second ip address was 10.0.0.4
That is the address i can use for putty, webpage, filezilla. they all work
we continue to try and make it clearer. it did stump me the first time i saw a bunch of good stuff scrolling by and then it was gone.
alt-f1 is your friend here.
