Want to see how the Ovilus5 works? There are different versions of the Ovilus. Some do not have wifi built in. To do this, you will need the Ovilus5 with WiFi.
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March 3, 2022: This is a work in progress. Not complete.
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May 26: 2024: Check out my repo Obivous to set up your own open source Ovilus with the ENTIRE dictionary!
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OvilusV Product Guide on how the Ovilus5 works. This Ovilus5 is discontinued.
Raspberry Pi can be optional. I used this to connect via wifi.
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Find the ip address to your Ovilus 5.
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Use nmap to see what ports are open. Port 80 for http is open.
nmap -p 80,22,443 http://ovilous5-ipaddress
- Use curl to check it out. It displays the html that is stored on the Ovilus 5.
curl http://ovilous5-ipaddress
- Now for the fun! Open a web browswer to access your Ovilus 5. Enter the ip address plus the r.htm?m=1 Now try different numbers behind the
=You'll get some weird reactions of the Ovilus 5 screen. For example this Ovilus 5 does not have bluetooth but will show bluetooth icons.
http://ovilus5-ipaddress/r.htm?m=1
