ShowEQ and Raspberry Pi

[BlueAdept]

Woot, finally made my raspberry pi SEQ box. I tried the fedora version first, because I really don't care for debian, but there were too many dependency problems. Wheezy installed fine.

[Deuronn]

I'm looking to give this a try too. Was anyone successful with going the wifi route or should I go with the hub?

[BlueAdept]

Used a usb network dongle and made it my router.

[Deuronn]

Thanks Spanners, your guide was great getting setup. I tried the wifi route and got everything up and running.

Now... what are my chances of doing an older compile successfully that would run on an emu server? I tried it from many different angles, but haven't been able to either get past the configure or makefile steps. Any tips? Is it even a possibility?

Thanks in advance for any input.

[BlueAdept]

I believe it would work. It depends on if it needs a lower QT.

[Greatful]

silly question but how do you load map onto the pi?

[BlueAdept]

I added ftpd to it and just transferred the maps over.

[BlueAdept]

With the release of the pi3, running SEQ on a pi is much better. It has a built in wifi and ethernet. What makes it great, is that you can turn the wifi into a wifi router. So now my laptop connects to the pi wirelessly and it runs SEQ!

See this page on how to set it up as a hotspot/router.

https://frillip.com/using-your-raspb...-with-hostapd/

This is how I have my network.

Inet-wireless router-hard wire to pi-laptop via wireless on pi

I only have the my laptop going to the pi since I did not want to tax the built in wifi. So now I just have a new wireless network called SEQ and leave my laptop connected to it all the time.

I was reading up on how they are banning people for using vmware and virtualbox. That is how I had been testing and I didn't want to get my accounts banned (yes I could have created a free one but Im lazy. This was more fun).

So for about 40 bucks, I have a working SEQ machine that was dead simple to do.

[BlueAdept]

I have used it a couple of times since I built it. For some reason, it doesn't always see the client. I have learned to do do the monitor for next client and then it works. I used it for a while with no problems.

[Joe Blow]

One thing I've done to make sniffing network devices with Wireshark a lot easier on the job is use a RaspberryPi3 with a SharkTap (basically USB powered 3 port switch with one port configured as a span port). Both devices can be powered from a 2 port USB power pack so it's extremely convenient since all that's required is putting the tap in-line with the target system. I then configure the RaspberryPI to act as an Access Point only, not a router. This is so I can connect to the PI wirelessly and bring up a Wireshark session on my Windows laptop via X11. I think this might work with SEQ. The main advantages are that it's completely invisible, doesn't require the RaspberryPI do any Routing/NAT/etc..., and you can run Wireshark/SEQ on the same system as the EQ (via X11 and encrypted with ssh).

[noobhaxor]

I absolutely love MySEQ and it has been a LONG time since I used Show EQ (probably 13-14 years) when it was in its infancy. I have a pi3 and decided to go ahead and expand it to load up ShowEQ. I'm noticing the install and readme files are mainly based on a Fedora distro. Since I'm on the pi with debian jessie I'm noticing a lot of dependencies aren't there. I'm tracking these down, but wanted to see if anyone already has a list. What was posted here is for QT3 (no longer supported) and I'm currently compiling the latest full build qt from downloads.qt.io which with all the options I hope will alleviate some of the dependency issues.

Overall, I'm just doing it to tinker and have a little fun, since I play live and use MySEQ extensively, but any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks all,
Noob

[BlueAdept]

If you use Wheezy and do the following, it should work fine. On page 2, Spanners posted what was needed.

you get to your nice pi@raspberry promt, install all of the following

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install xdm
apt-get install x11-apps
apt-get install libvte9
apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
apt-get install subversion
apt-get install libtool
apt-get install aclocal
apt-get install make
apt-get install automake
apt-get install libpcap-dev


Now to get some other bits done


mkdir /build
cd /build
svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/seq/svn/showeq/trunk showeq
cd showeq
make -f Makefile.dist build
./configure


The next one takes foooooooking ages.

make
make install

If you get it to work on Jessie, please let us know what was done to help others.

[Razzle]

I might have to get out that extra rpi and play with seq some. Need to brush up on my linux some.

Razzle

[ancient_eq]

I have many Odroid-C2's (64-bit arm RPI clone from hardkernel) so have started building showeq for it. Of course I hit the QT3 issue so am about to build qt3 for it following this guys blog post about it (found in another thread in this forum): https://gist.github.com/cnelson/9b42986d3e98ee7431bf

Note: the Odroid-c2 I built this on run's an Ubuntu distribution for aarch64 (the 64-bit architecture)
Ubuntu: DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS"
Specs: Quad-core, 1gb nic, 64-bit, 2gb of ram, emmc or SD storage, around $40

The nice part about the C2 board is it supports the 42" 4k monitor next to my gaming machine, so should be a giant nice map when I'm done. I'm using a $39.95 smart hub: Mikrotik RouterBoard RB260G RB260GS Smart Gigabit Switch

Update: showeq is built for the ARM64 odroid-c2 and starts up fine. I just need to setup the smart hub to mirror the data over to the odroid-c2
I had to apply the QT3 patches and the showeq patches from the above link to get it to build.

[ancient_eq]

The Mikrotik Routerboard finally showed up and I mirrored port 2 egress/ingress to port 3, started up showeq on the Odroid-C2, told it the IP address of my Windows gaming machine and loaded up Project 1999 (please note I'm only doing this on project 1999 since I no longer play Everquest and just wanted to test this out on the Odroid C2).

It crashes with the following (it's been so many years since I off-lined the my parts of the brain used to hack showeq that I'll have to research how to fix it). However it does run fine on the Odroid-C2 so that would be a great low-cost showeq box (fanless, quiet with 1gb nic and 4k monitor support).
Until I recall how to fix the showeq code I can only report it looks great and starts to draw the map.... anyway here is the error:

Warning: INVALID PACKET: Bad CRC [192.168.1.aa:xxx -> 239.255.255.zzz:tttt] netOp 534d seq 0000 len 137 crc (0d0a != 28c9)
Warning: INVALID PACKET: Bad CRC [192.168.1.aa:xxx -> 239.255.255.zzz:tttt] netOp 534d seq 0000 len 137 crc (0d0a != 28c9)
Warning: INVALID PACKET: Bad CRC [192.168.1.aa:xxx -> 239.255.255.zzz:tttt] netOp 534d seq 0000 len 137 crc (0d0a != 28c9)
Time: xxxxxxx
Warning: OP_Consider (0x254d) (dataLen: 12) doesn't match: sizeof(considerStruct):28
Warning: OP_NewZone (0x920) (dataLen: 700) doesn't match: sizeof(newZoneStruct):796
Player: Exp: Set: zzzzzz total, with zzzzzzz (a/b) into level with zzzzz left, where a/bbb = tttt
*** buffer overflow detected ***: showeq terminated
Aborted