SSH client for picocalc

[rich]

Hello picocalc pals!

I got my picocalc a few days ago. My first project was to make it my “AI buddy”, where I could run gemini-cli and ollama over ssh. Wez Furlong laid some amazing groundwork with his picocalc-wezterm project, but the terminal emulation needs help.

I was anxious to get something up a running, so rather than creating a PR to improve upon his great terminal emulator code, I forked. I swapped out his code with Rust’s “vte” package, added more terminal characters, added scroll back functionality, and made a few other minor changes.

Now the picocalc is a pretty effective ssh/wifi based dumb terminal.

Source code and a uf2 is at:

GitHub - richcannings/picocalc-ssh-client: SSH terminal for PicoCalc with prettier terminal...

Try it out and let me know how this works for you.

Next, I think I’ll embark on that RPi0 project next. Looks cool!

[ohm69]

Hi, I’m experimenting with the same ssh client in order to make it work with uf2loader.

That’s where I’m now:

UF2 Loader release

Hi, I have found an interesting software package: picocalc-wezterm by wezterm. It’s a full-fledged SSH client for PicoCalc with Pico2_w. Unfortunately, when I tried to install it with uf2loader, I got reboot loop. The whole thing is implemented in Rust, which makes troubleshooting harder, for me at least, but once I figured out how to enable interrupts, it ran! Or sort of ran, because when I’m trying to enter WiFi SSID/password, I get “Corrupted” error. WiFi parameters are stored in device fl…

I assume that your package has to be flashed with a cable and wouldn’t work with uf2loader?

[rich]

Correct, I flash it with a cable.

Uf2loader sounds super useful. I’ll try to get my project to work with uf2loader:

Run with uf2loader

[jxw1102]

If PicoCalc had a 4G module, it would be more practical as an SSH client.

[exoticatom]

thank making it work with UF2loader would be really fantastic. Thx for great work!

[Marsupial]

And if it had no WiFi at all, it would be less practical.