PhidgetSBC2 Interactive C# Shell

One cool package for playing around with your phidget(s) is mono-csharp-shell which gives you an interactive C# shell (with tab completion).

apt-get install -y mono-csharp-shell

Once the package is installed, you can open it with csharp but just like with gmcs we have to include the reference to the Phidget library.

csharp -r:Phidget21.NET.dll

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Missing Namespaces on PhidgetSBC2’s Mono

Since we cannot install mono-complete on the PhidgetSBC2 currently, we are missing some of the C# namespaces. If you are trying to use any of the following namespaces and gmcs cannot find it, you will have to install the respective package.

Namespace Package
Mono.Data libmono-data2.0-cil
System.Data libmono-system-data2.0-cil
System.Data.Linq libmono-system-data-linq2.0-cil
System.DirectoryServices libmono-system-ldap2.0-cil
System.Messaging libmono-system-messaging2.0-cil
System.Runtime libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil
System.Web libmono-system-web2.0-cil
System.Web.Mvc libmono-system-web-mvc2.0-cil

Using Mono on the PhidgetSBC2

So this Monday my PhidgetSBC2 arrived and I was super excited to get started playing around with the short-term goal of being able to open my door lock remotely.

I really wanted to write the code in C# because it's simply better than Java and it's lot easier to implement a server in C# than in C. While the manual for the SBC2 says you can get Mono working if you install the correct packages, I couldn't find any information on the Phidget website on how to do it, so I had to figure it out myself.

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