The 2016-05-13 image does not get my "newbie ready" seal of approval, but its made some nice steps in the right direction.
Plugging in a fresh SD card image into my A5A BBB and connecting the USB cable into a Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 system, it booted up and mounted the virtual MSDOS partition from which I ran START.htm in Firefox 46.0 and http://192.168.7.2/bone101/Support/bone101/ came up and seems to work fine. Specifically the bonescript interactive example ran to flash the 4 user LEDs, and Cloud9 and node-red launched as expected. Nice to see several images in a row without the boot-up flakiness I've experienced with most of the late 2015 and early 2016 images I've tried. It was great to see that node-red by default includes the "extra" node-red-node-beaglebone and Grove sensor nodes as I've had issues getting the node-red-node-beaglebone node to build on previous images. I've no way to test the Grove module nodes, but it was nice to see them installed by default (my newbie friend has a BBG and he might be interested in some of these modules) Following the "this interactive guide" link, its examples worked as expected. But then things deteriorated when I tried to dive a bit deeper under the "Functions" header. These pages don't display correctly, for example the diditalWrite() link displays a page with this at the top: --- layout: index title: digitalWrite scripts: [ '/Support/script/bonescript-demo.js' ] style: | #code { position: relative; width: 500px; padding-left: 0; border-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; align: left; } #console-output { margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 30px; width: 496px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; resize: vertical; } --- {% include side_menu.html title="BoneScript" %} The text is readable but the Example "run" button doesn't work and there is a large empty box displayed in the lower right hand corner. I tried it in Chrome and got the same result so its not likely a Firefox 46.0 issue. Trying to follow a link form this page got me: Cannot GET /Support/BoneScript/digitalWrite/%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/Support/BoneScript/demo_blinkled_external/ Cloud9 seems to work although the analogWrite() (aka PWM) bonescript is still not working for this 4.4.9-ti-r25 kernel (known problem form 2016-05-01 image). All my other "hello world" protoboard circuits seemed to work as expected. I'll try to do daily apt-get upgrades and see if these issues get resolved, and I'll repeat these tests when the next testing Image is released. I hope that in some small way I can help make the Beaglebones become more appealing to newbies as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi -- especially for projects that need more I/O or A/D. Its the possibility of "everything from a web browser" that could really give the Beaglebones a leg-up on the Pi for a newbie, although at present the advantage is clearly with the Pi because it comes from a educational project and has a deep and well organized set of tutorials and hand holding guides. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/94a75c9e-f757-4b7b-93f3-661512af90fe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
