Typo on the SCP lines?

[jessephillips]

Hey, I'm walking through the instructions now. I am very literal minded and not experienced enough to know maybe some basic things. So maybe this will be annoying, but it seems like the scp lines have a typo. If they do, this will be problematic for other users like me who don't know enough to figure out what's wrong. You might say: "Yeah, and that's fine, if they don't know enough to figure this kind of error out, well then I can't help them, they need to at least attain that knowledge before attempting this level of project." And that is a fair statement! So if that's the way it is, I'm cool with that, and thankful that this project even exists.

But if we're open to addressing typos. These lines seem like they are slightly incorrect:

scp .\requirements.txt robot@ev3dev.local:./lego-sorter/requirements.txt
scp .\main.py robot@ev3dev.local:./lego-sorter/main.py

first line uses /lego-sorter but that's not a folder in the project. I downloaded the .zip file from github and the top level is "lego-sorter-pi-main" - so I assumed you meant that directory since there is no "lego-sorter" subfolder anywhere. But there's no main.py in there. So should it be the /ev3 folder instead? I see main.py in there & requirements.txt. There is a requirements.txt in the /lego-sorter-pi-main dir, so I was also a little confused by that.

It must be the /ev3 dir. In which case, perhaps the instructions should be updated to say this instead?:

scp .\requirements.txt robot@ev3dev.local:./ev3/requirements.txt
scp .\main.py robot@ev3dev.local:./ev3/main.py

[pbackx]

The documentation is not very clear, but indeed, the two files that need to be copied are here:
https://github.com/pbackx/lego-sorter-pi/tree/main/ev3

The lines I wrote assume that you are in that folder and they should work. If you are not, you can change it to:

scp .\ev3\requirements.txt robot@ev3dev.local:./lego-sorter/requirements.txt
scp .\ev3\main.py robot@ev3dev.local:./lego-sorter/main.py

The first part .\ev3\requirements.txt is the location on your laptop, where you are running the command. The second part is where you want the file to end up. In my documentation, I chose to create a folder lego-sorter on the Raspberry Pi. If you created ev3 that is fine too. Both will work.

[jessephillips]

OH YEAH! Oh duh. oh man. I'm so stupid. I'm sorry, of course this is correct. I'm so sorry