I thought I would share this quick note before blogging it. I will be
attending the Ubuntu Hour in SF today. To get a Nexus 7 ready to demo
I did a couple small things.

First I followed the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch

To refresh the image I ran: phablet-flash cdimage-touch
Patience is a virtue even when the messages give the impression of
doing nothing.

I like to use a real keyboard for typing so in the terminal I did:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

ifconfig will provide the IP number of the device by your network, in
my case 192.168.0.103. So to connect: ssh [email protected]

In the Release notes it says how to change the timezone with two commands:
echo "America/Los_Angelese" | sudo tee /etc/timezone
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

Then I wanted to run the Intro Tour again that happens when you FIRST
launch the device. That took a small script where I put the following
in a file named ./demo (use pico or vi) then chmod +x demo (to make it
executable). The file ./demo should contain:

#!/bin/sh
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User32011
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set
string:com.canonical.unity.AccountsService string:demo-edges
variant:boolean:true
sudo -iu phablet /sbin/restart unity8

I hope others find this useful.

Cheers,

Grant

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