1. Requirements

IMPORTANT: If you have installed tuxsetup1.3-rc1 please continue here.

To get the Tux Gadget Manager working, you already should have done the following:

• Installation of tuxsetup
  

• Installation of the TTS voice files: currently only English (UK & US) and French are supported in the Gadget Manager.

• The only additional thing required is reflashing the sound chip in Tux Droid. This will add several interface sounds that are used by the Gadget Manager. Reflashing the sound chip is quick and easy with the tuxgi.

First make sure your dongle is connected and your Tux Droid is switched on. The LED's in both the dongle and Tux should be lit before continuing.

From a terminal window enter:

tuxgi

The tuxgi window will pop up. Next select the "Audio" tab.

• Step 1: Check the "include original" check box as indicated in the screen grab above.
• Step 2: A list of 16 wave files will be displayed on the left.
• Step 3: Click the "Store"  button.

Reflashing the sound chip takes around 30 seconds. You can follow the process in the tuxgi:

Sound storing : Erase flash
Sound storing : Indexes
Sound storing : Record
Sound storing : Storage done.

2. Using Tux Gadget Manager

2.1 Starting the Tux Gadget Manager

In the menu bar look for the Tux Droid Icon in the Accessories map. If for some reason you can't find it there, launch it directly from a terminal window:

tuxgdg

2.2 The Gadget Manager GUI

After an introduction message you will see the Gadget Manager:

1: The fish dongle icon indicates the daemons are running ok. 2: The Tux Droid head indicates the radio connection is enabled. 3: The list of installed gadgets is displayed here. Tux Gadget Manager comes with these three pre-installed gadgets. Right-clicking a gadget will bring up a menu to modify the settings for every gadget. See below for info on the right-click menu. Double-clicking a gadget in the list will start it. 4: This is the most important part of the GUI. The arrow indicates which gadget is currently selected. When a gadget is activated, the arrow will be replaced with a gear icon. As long a gadget is running, you cannot select or run another gadget.

Taking a closer look to the right-click menu of the gadgets you will find the following menu items:

"Show" : Some gadgets have a GUI to display specific gadget information. When "show" is grayed out like in the screenshot there is no gadget GUI available. "Run" : Starts the gadget. "Update now" : Refreshes the information of the gadget. In case of the Weather gadget, the server will be contacted to get updated weather information. "Updating": The gadget will automatically update the information required for the gadget. The update interval can be specified in the settings window of the gadget. "Active in voice menu": When using the remote control, the gadget will be listed in the voice menu. "Remove" : Removes the gadget from the manager. "Settings" : Displays the configuration window of a gadget. "Help": Displays additional information on how to use the gadget. "About": Displays the gadget's author and version number.

When selecting "Options" in the Tux Gadget Manager menu you have the following menu items:

"Manager settings" : this will bring up the configuration for the TTS. In case your Tux didn't say anything so far, check if the TTS settings are configured with English or French. You also increase the pitch a few notches to have a more cartoonish voice. "Restart daemons": In case of problems you can try to restart the daemons here. "Update firmware" : If the Gadget Manager detects there is more recent firmware version, you can reflash the fish dongle and Tux Droid firmware from here. "Voice recognition" : Enables the voice recognition function. Note that you will have to record the voice commands first to have this function working. "Quit" : Will close the Gadget Manager.

When selecting "Tools" in the Tux Gadget Manager menu you have the following menu items:

"Voice recognition": This will bring up the voice recognition window. Here you can record the voice commands to control the gadgets. "Scenes manager": Is a manager tool for Tux behavior files. This is still in beta and only supported by the e-mail gadget. "Debugger": The debugger can be of use when troubleshooting self made gadgets.

2.3 The remote control and the Gadget Manager

The blue arrow is controlled with the remote control, When scrolling trough the gadgets Tux will say the name of the selected gadget. Buttons of importance are described below:

2.4 The Gadget Manager tray icon

When the Gadget Manager is running a tray icon will be visible in the menu bar in the upper right corner.

• Tray icon: 
• Left-clicking the little Tux head will show/hide the Gadget Manager GUI on the desktop.
• Blue eyes indicate the daemons are running ok. White eyes indicate the daemons are not running and the Gadget Manager will not work.
• Tray icon menu:
  
• Clicking "Show manager" will show/hide the Manager GUI just like when you left-click the tray icon.
• "Restart daemons": in case of problems, restarting the daemons might help.
• Select "Quit" to exit the Gadget Manager completely.