Hi Pete, Funny you're asking that question at the very moment I'm pondering the answer, as well. I'm deep into finishing up the last draft of a book for (very) beginning BBB users and makers, and have been using Bonescript periodically in chapters.
Currently, I'm trying to develop an example using resion.io + Docker as an instance of the direction IoT development may move with "containerized" apps. I want to use Bonescript with some simple sensor scenarios. But since there's no capemgr support, yet, for >3.8 kernel (unless I'm mistaken?), using the library may be a dead end for now. It also seems that more developer interest is moving toward other libraries/toolsets like Johnny-Five since you can jump to non-BBB boards easily. Sorry for the blasphemy. I'm a big fan of Bonescript, especially for early users just diving into physical computing. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Charles Hamilton (not the Charles with the magic config-pin utility) On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 8:35:54 AM UTC-4, [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? > > With thanks, > Pete > -- 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.
