On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, a couple of years ago I bought a BBB. Had a play for a while, then it > ended up in a drawer as newer boards with more features blew past it. > I've now found that drawer! This BBB has Debian 7 installed. I've done an > apt-get upgrade and update and it all seems to work. I've been looking at > bonescript as being a quick and easy way to get it to do something useful > with peripherals. However all the documentation seems to be for bonescript > on Angstrom - and even then, most of it is a year or two old. > I've run the stuff at https://github.com/jadonk/bonescript that is pertinent > to Debian which amounts to just a few lines: > > Debian and Ubuntu prerequisites: > > Credit to > http://learn.adafruit.com/introduction-to-the-beaglebone-black-device-tree/compiling-an-overlay > > sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ python-setuptools python2.7-dev > wget -c https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/master/pkgs/dtc.sh > chmod +x dtc.sh > ./dtc.sh > > > but which does NOT end up with anything that seems to produce any results. > Specifically, the one-liner: > node -pe "require('bonescript').getPlatform().bonescript" > > produces no output. Nothing. No error messages, no status, nothing. > > My simple question is: is bonescript on Debian dead? Am I wasting my time > trying to use it and should I be looking at some other way to interact with > GPIOs and all the other peripherals?
Well the above doesn't install bonescript... npm install -g bonescript Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
