Re: [beagleboard] Driving servos with face position detected from OpenCV?

2014-03-27 Thread Sungjin Chun
How about using node.js OpenCV bindings such as; https://github.com/peterbraden/node-opencv Though I'm not sure on the OpenCV functionalities implemented in this package. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Shanshan Zhou shshan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys! I'm just getting started with my

[beagleboard] Mono on last debian

2014-03-27 Thread Erwin Ried
Hi, any hint how to install mono in the last debian image? (I need this because a little touchscreen, very jittery in angstrom) I get: root@beaglebone:/# apt-get install mono-runtime Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not

Re: [beagleboard] Driving servos with face position detected from OpenCV?

2014-03-27 Thread Shanshan Zhou
Hi Sunjin Thank you! This looks really promising, I will give it a go and let you guys know how it goes. On Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:38:19 UTC+13, Sungjin Chun wrote: How about using node.js OpenCV bindings such as; https://github.com/peterbraden/node-opencv Though I'm not sure on the

[beagleboard] Re: Controlling power to USB connections

2014-03-27 Thread Patrick Walters
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/USB1_OC https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/USB1_OC https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/turn$20off$20USB$20power https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/USB$20power$20control On

[beagleboard] First one, then two, then three....

2014-03-27 Thread Richard-tx
I bought a BBB about 3 weeks ago. Was impressed enough that I bought two more. I have a few Rpis is use around the house as well so I have a little experience with SBCs Anyway. all three BBB has been flawless. No problems at all. I did discover one thing. Of all the Linux distros out

Re: [beagleboard] gpio trouble

2014-03-27 Thread Jaden Gani
Well for one, some of the other gpio pins such as pin 13 on P8 won't operate properly. When I try to work with it over cloud9, it doesn't respond to any changes. For instance in the a simple blink sketch, if the setInterval is (blink, 1000) and I change it to (blink, 100), it continues

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/26/2014 10:22 PM, Yiling Cao wrote: Thanks Brandon for your experience. I do agree with that better to put whole disk read only. But how do iPhone and Android survive? Esp for those Android phones? They are very prone to sudden power removal as well. What? These devices are battery

[beagleboard] Re: gpio trouble

2014-03-27 Thread mickeyf
What Gerald is saying is that in general you should not expect to drive an LED directly - you will want to drive a transistor which can then supply perhaps 20 ma or more to your LED and at the correct voltage. Perhaps you are already doing this, but you didn't say. I don't know anything about

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread Yiling Cao
Thanks for your reply. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: On 3/26/2014 10:22 PM, Yiling Cao wrote: Thanks Brandon for your experience. I do agree with that better to put whole disk read only. But how do iPhone and Android survive? Esp

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread Yiling Cao
When there are very small time window to update the content in flash. do you choose to: 1. initially mount as ro, remount as rw, write your changes and remount back to ro? OR 2. just mount as rw to boot up? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Yiling Cao yiling@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for

Re: [beagleboard] Re: microSD card reader snapped off one side, bad solder joints?

2014-03-27 Thread bob . skala
I ran into the same problem with a BBB I recently purchased. Apparently the force from the sd contacts can lift the leads off the board after sitting for a few months. I re-soldered the socket leads on the side along with the grounds but still had a reliability problem with the card detect

Re: [beagleboard] Re: gpio trouble

2014-03-27 Thread Gerald Coley
You might try the new Bonescript stuff in the latest image based on Debian.It my work better, but I can't say for sure. http://beagleboard.org/latest-images Gerald On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:46 AM, mickeyf mic...@thesweetoasis.com wrote: What Gerald is saying is that in general you should

Re: [beagleboard] i2c via bonescript under Debian

2014-03-27 Thread Jason Kridner
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a.yo...@gmail.com wrote: I see the bonescript has some i2c methods. Are there any examples out there that work under Debian on the Black Bone? Here's one that works on BoneScript 0.2.4 on Debian, but happens to be calling the I2C methods from

[beagleboard] Anyone successfully used squashfs as rootfs? or other ro fs?

2014-03-27 Thread Yiling Cao
Due to potential write caused SD/eMMC corruption issue we are facing, has anyone successfully used read-only fs? I have used AUFS under x86 with ubuntu, proven to be rock solid. But had no luck with ARM due to some OS+package issue. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss ---

[beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Riccardo Bortolato
Hello, sorry if it already has been asked but I couldn't find anything like this so I'm gonna post my issue. I'm running ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.8.13-bone41 from emmc (powered by a 5V 2A power supply) and I am experiencing this: unplugging (and/or plugging in back) the ethernet cable can

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-27 Thread Mark A. Yoder
I see a 2014-03-26 image has appeared. Unfortunately when I flash [1] and boot from it, it appears to never leave u-boot. Just 3 LEDs light and it just hangs. I try this on two SD cards and both had the same behavior. --Mark [1]

Re: [beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Gerald Coley
Can you try it using the latest Debian image? http://beagleboard.org/latest-images Gerald On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Riccardo Bortolato rikyz...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, sorry if it already has been asked but I couldn't find anything like this so I'm gonna post my issue. I'm

[beagleboard] OpenCV CascadeClassifier

2014-03-27 Thread Dorian Levy
I ran trainCascade on my Linux virtual machine and got an xml file, but when I try to run it on the Beaglebone I get the following error. Parsing Error : valid xml should start with ?xml? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you

[beagleboard] Re: Mono on last debian

2014-03-27 Thread mickeyf
Try: https://github.com/alexrp/mono/tree/armhf With build instructions here: https://github.com/alexrp/mono/tree/armhf We are using this with RCN's Ubuntu. Last built it many months ago though and are considering that version stable for our purposes, so can't speak to any recent changes or

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a.yo...@gmail.com wrote: I see a 2014-03-26 image has appeared. Unfortunately when I flash [1] and boot from it, it appears to never leave u-boot. Just 3 LEDs light and it just hangs. Humm, that means uenvcmd wasn't defined in uEnv.txt.. I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a.yo...@gmail.com wrote: I see a 2014-03-26 image has appeared. Unfortunately when I flash [1] and boot from it, it appears to never leave u-boot. Just 3 LEDs

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-27 Thread Mark A. Yoder
Thanks Robert. I'll watch for the update. --Mark On Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:22:12 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Robert Nelson robert...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a...@gmail.comjavascript:

[beagleboard] How to get the Boot device in U-Boot

2014-03-27 Thread Ayoub Zaki
is there anyway to get the effective boot device/media in u-boot ? (MMC oe eMMC) Reading the SYSBOOT Pin is not going to help since if the first media fails BOOT ROM Code will try the next one. Cheers -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message

Re: [beagleboard] Re: eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/27/2014 12:26 PM, rh_ wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:41:11 -0500 Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: On 3/26/2014 10:22 PM, Yiling Cao wrote: Thanks Brandon for your experience. I do agree with that better to put whole disk read only. But how do iPhone and Android

Re: [beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Riccardo Bortolato
Hello Gerald, I downloaded debian, ran it from the uSD and I was installing a bunch of stuff..after a while here's what I got: [ 360.539306] INFO: task apt-get:1251 blocked for more than 60 seconds. [ 360.546242] echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. [

Re: [beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Gerald Coley
Sounds like some sort of SW issue. Gerald On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Riccardo Bortolato rikyz...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Gerald, I downloaded debian, ran it from the uSD and I was installing a bunch of stuff..after a while here's what I got: [ 360.539306] INFO: task apt-get:1251

Re: [beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Riccardo Bortolato rikyz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gerald, I downloaded debian, ran it from the uSD and I was installing a bunch of stuff..after a while here's what I got: [ 360.539306] INFO: task apt-get:1251 blocked for more than 60 seconds. [

Re: [beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Riccardo Bortolato
Hello Robert, well I just need usart1, usb and ethernet so the 3.13 option is fine for me. Meanwhile I was just searching for similar issues and found this: http://blog.machinekit.io/2013/10/hung-task-bug-in-xenomai-kernel.html which points to

Re: [beagleboard] Hard freeze (ethernet related?)

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Riccardo Bortolato rikyz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robert, well I just need usart1, usb and ethernet so the 3.13 option is fine for me. Meanwhile I was just searching for similar issues and found this:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread Brandon I
That's because your phone uses a sane filesystems that takes into account this use case and isn't writing constantly (write one byte, the disk writes a whole erase block). This doesn't protect you from eventual disk corruption. The wear leveling bad-block type tables will eventually corrupt/run

[beagleboard] Re: Mono on last debian

2014-03-27 Thread Erwin Ried
Thanks, I will try in Ubuntu too (because the touchscreen maybe it works in there) On Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:41:52 PM UTC-3, mickeyf wrote: Try: https://github.com/alexrp/mono/tree/armhf With build instructions here: https://github.com/alexrp/mono/tree/armhf We are using this with

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Robert. I'll watch for the update. Just pushed out tested locally: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2014-03-27 Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options,

Re: [beagleboard] i2c via bonescript under Debian

2014-03-27 Thread Mark A. Yoder
Hmm... I'm not getting anywhere with this. I have a TMP101 i2c device wired to P9_19 and P9_20. From the command line this works: # *i2cdetect -y -r 1* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

[beagleboard] Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta + fixes) image you want to test (2014-03-27)

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Nelson
Thanks to everyone for testing the beta images! In this last last week window I've rolled in many of your changes. So please continue to use the bug tracker: http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/debian-image-releases Big Changes: Added support for Hieu Duong's cape-bone-weather-00B0 Added support

[beagleboard] Re: First one, then two, then three....

2014-03-27 Thread Brandon I
The only thing I wish for is the ability to change I2C bus speeds on the fly. You can do anything with a kernel module and some memory pokes. ;) On Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:47:10 AM UTC-7, Richard-tx wrote: I bought a BBB about 3 weeks ago. Was impressed enough that I bought two more.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-27 Thread Mark A. Yoder
It's working. Thanks! --Mark On Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:18:20 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Thanks Robert. I'll watch for the update. Just pushed out tested locally:

[beagleboard] Re: How to use UART Serial Port Using BoneScript Library

2014-03-27 Thread Mark A. Yoder
Nick: I have some bonescript code that works with the UART, but I'm not using the built-in bonescript calls. It works fine with a GPS, though I don't use it to transmit. I took would like to see an example that uses the bonescript calls. Before ruing the code you need to: beagle# *npm

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread John Syn
From: Brandon I brandon.ir...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 6:46 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] eMMC data corruption due to power removal? Here's a good read:

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread David Lambert
I have had a long and painful history using flash in general, and have come to the conclusion that asynchronous removal of power is a very bad thing. The following link shows one low level phenomenon called unstable bits. This seems to be getting worse the more bits that are stuffed into a

[beagleboard] Re: i2c2 file not present in the system

2014-03-27 Thread Richard-tx
This is one of those things that should be documented a little better. Assuming you are using ubuntu or debian, here is the command. echo BB-I2C1 /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.*/slots That should do it. On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:45:17 AM UTC-6, Jyotirmaya Joon wrote: i2c2 file is not

Re: [beagleboard] i2c via bonescript under Debian

2014-03-27 Thread Jason Kridner
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Mark A. Yoder mark.a.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... I'm not getting anywhere with this. I have a TMP101 i2c device wired to P9_19 and P9_20. From the command line this works: # i2cdetect -y -r 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00:

[beagleboard] Re: MMC1: strange voltage values in MMC1 module pins DAT[3-0], WP and CMD

2014-03-27 Thread 4ndr3s44
Ok, thanks for your help, I finally got it. My SYS_BOOT configuration was wrong: I inserted also the do not insert resistors. After removing them the card module worked and I was able to boot. The 0.5V is the voltage that you can measure in a pin that has an active pull-down: after fixing the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread Brandon I
Rh, my earlier reply was to you, and that link shows that it is now a problem with androids use of ext4. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:55 PM, rh_ richard_hubb...@lavabit.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:41:24 -0500 Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: On 3/27/2014 12:26 PM,

[beagleboard] Upgrade kernel from 2.6.32 to 3.0.7

2014-03-27 Thread icte220
I currently run Angstrom Linux 2.6.32 on BeagleBoard-xM. Image was built on Narcissus with Bootloader Files *(x-load/u-boot/scripts)*. Recently, I downloaded kernel sources 2.6.32.61 from kernel.org and copied them to /usr/src on BB-xM. After making the configuration (make menuconfig), I build

[beagleboard] Tesseract-ocr installation on beaglebone

2014-03-27 Thread robert . g . grech
Hi everyone, Right now I am working on an embedded system using my BeagleboneA6 (white) and I'm trying to install tesseract-ocr. Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with Linux so I was trying to follow these steps http://miphol.com/muse/2013/05/install-tesseract-ocr-on-ubunt.html I know

Re: [beagleboard] Re: eMMC data corruption due to power removal?

2014-03-27 Thread David Lambert
On 03/27/2014 07:04 PM, rh_ wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:25:29 -0500 David Lambert d...@lambsys.com wrote: I have had a long and painful history using flash in general, and have come to the conclusion that asynchronous removal of power is a asynchronous? Like pulling the plug and not pushing

Re: [beagleboard] i2c via bonescript under Debian

2014-03-27 Thread sarah . yoder
I get that same result using '/dev/i2c-2' as '/dev/i2c-0. Ant other suggestions? --Mark -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] i2c via bonescript under Debian

2014-03-27 Thread sarah . yoder
Oops, I mean the same as '/dev/i2c-1 --Mark -- 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

RE: [beagleboard] Tesseract-ocr installation on beaglebone

2014-03-27 Thread William Pretty Security
Why don’t you just install Ubuntu on the white? I have it working perfectly. You will need an 8GB uSD card. Just Google “Beaglebone Ubuntu” http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com

[beagleboard] Beagle Black Questions

2014-03-27 Thread Doug
I just ordered my first Black today. I have been using RPi's for awhile but due to the lousy USB interface I wanted to try the Black. Anyhow I have a few questions. I plan to run Debian and I see I have the option of running it in microSD or the internal EMMC. I am not clear on the