Re: [beagleboard] Re: Qt5 on Debian BBB

2014-09-02 Thread Seth
Thanks don. That's cool Qt is all ready to go on ALARM. Is there also an easy way to change the splash screen to something custom, like what Plymouth seems to offer? I didn't get there yet but it seemed like Debian had a few guides around that I could use. -- For more options, visit

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Qt5 on Debian BBB

2014-09-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 09/01/2014 11:35 PM, Seth wrote: Thanks don. That's cool Qt is all ready to go on ALARM. Is there also an easy way to change the splash screen to something custom, like what Plymouth seems to offer? I didn't get there yet but it seemed like Debian had a few guides around that I could use.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Booting off Micro SD Card

2014-09-02 Thread kavitha bk
I dont think sd card permissions you can change using chmod mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rw you can try On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/01/2014 08:15 PM, William Pretty Security wrote: You need to change the “permissions” chmod 777 /dev/sda1

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Qt5 on Debian BBB

2014-09-02 Thread Seth
Well that sounds really nice! Thanks for your help don - I'll give that splash update process a shot. -- 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

[beagleboard] Re: Is it easy to reduce the clock frequency on Beaglebone I2C?

2014-09-02 Thread Martin H.
I freely admit that I don't know anything about LINUX. We don't use it. But why would you want to modify the device tree if I2C is running? We have I2C running with an LPC2468. All we did is putting a P8287 at each end of the line. And it works. No code modification was required. Martin H. --

[beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Rebooting Several Times Every Day

2014-09-02 Thread Greg Kelley
Got my first BBB last week, installed latest Debian. USB Hot Plug was completely hosed in Kernel 3.8 so I upgraded to 3.16 (latest non-rc version). Currently running CUPS print services (including Airprint) and weewx. It appears that the BBB is rebooting three or four times between 10pm and

[beagleboard] Re: Is it easy to reduce the clock frequency on Beaglebone I2C?

2014-09-02 Thread cl
Martin H. mart...@innomar.com wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 16 lines --] I freely admit that I don't know anything about LINUX. We don't use it. But why would you want to modify the device tree if I2C is running? We have I2C running with an LPC2468. All we did is

Re: [beagleboard] purchasing beagleboard-xM

2014-09-02 Thread Gerald Coley
We build based on orders from distributors. They place orders based on demand. I believe a batch was built a couple of weeks. I do not where they were shipped to. Gerald On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:51 PM, webby webyh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm interested in buying beagleboard-xM(BB-XM-00).

Re: [beagleboard] How to remove Cloud9 - files from BBB

2014-09-02 Thread max
Robert, So far so good! I set a root password, created a regular user account, ran apt-get update upgrade. I've installed the following packages: avahi-daemon nodejs nodejs-legacy nom ntp git man-db I used dpkg-reconfigure tzdata to set my timezone information, configured git, and I should

[beagleboard] Flash failure (s2 failure?)

2014-09-02 Thread root
I am trying to flash my Beaglebone Black, but I think perhaps there is a failure in the S2 boot selection button. dpwrussell@starbuck ~/Downloads $ md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz 74615fb680af8f252c034d3807c9b4ae BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz This

[beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days

2014-09-02 Thread chrismyers81
Hi everyone! I've got my BBB rev. C set up as a data logger for a serial data stream from an Arduino. It basically takes this data, uploads it to xively, and checks certain values for exceeded thresholds and sends an email if found. This works fine. However, after the script has been running

[beagleboard] 16+ Analog Input Options for Beaglebone

2014-09-02 Thread jona . hernandez
I would like to use the BeagleBone to acquire 16 analog signals. The transducers will be a mix of resistive temperature and current sensors. The temperature sensors will produce a signal between 0~5V and the current transformers will output of 0~0.333V. The BeagleBone Black is limited to 7

[beagleboard] connect WLAN-stick with DHCP server

2014-09-02 Thread familienclanengel
Hello, I use Angstrom and try to connect the USB-WLAN stick with FritzBox. The stick is DWL-G122 RevC from D-Link (the chip is RT73) and on FritzBox a DHCP server is running. The Angstrom already is updated. Ethernet is working, but WLAN is not able to get the authentication. The BBB is

[beagleboard] bbb-exp-c

2014-09-02 Thread bradley
i found the kernel provided from chipsee for the BBB-EXP-C i saved it on github for review, https://github.com/bmatusiak/bbb-exp-lcd7 im posting this for a reference.. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[beagleboard] connecting WLAN-Stick to DHCP server

2014-09-02 Thread familienclanengel
Hello, I use Angstrom /BeagleBoneBlack and try to connect the USB-WLAN stick with FritzBox. The stick is DWL-G122 RevC from D-Link (the chip is RT73) and on FritzBox a DHCP server is running. The Angstrom already is updated. Ethernet is working, but WLAN is not able to get the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Device Tree Compiler

2014-09-02 Thread Amit Sama
Hi John, Thanks for your reply. You mean whatever we have to send and receive should be done via spidev1.0 only ? *Best Regards,* *Amit Sama* On 28 August 2014 16:28, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: Amit Sama amitsama@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com

[beagleboard] Re: BBB 24-bit LCD using device tree

2014-09-02 Thread tanar . ulric
Is this still true? Looking in the source (from http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_crtc.c) I see that it supports bpp=24 if (priv-rev == 2), so I'm hoping that this has been corrected. I'm using the tilcdc in the 3.8.13-bone50 kernel from the Debian

Re: [beagleboard] Flash failure (s2 failure?)

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:38 AM, r...@dpwrussell.com wrote: I am trying to flash my Beaglebone Black, but I think perhaps there is a failure in the S2 boot selection button. dpwrussell@starbuck ~/Downloads $ md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz

Re: [beagleboard] How to remove Cloud9 - files from BBB

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:03 AM, m...@zepler.org wrote: Robert, So far so good! I set a root password, created a regular user account, ran apt-get update upgrade. I've installed the following packages: avahi-daemon nodejs nodejs-legacy nom ntp git man-db I used dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

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

2014-09-02 Thread amer . abufadel
Hello Mark and Jason, I tried using your script in cloud9 as well as using node and I get the same error: b.serialOpen(port, options, onSerial); ^ TypeError: Object #Object has no method 'serialOpen' What am I missing? Thank you, Amer On Monday, April 7, 2014 1:13:13 PM UTC-4, Jason

Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days

2014-09-02 Thread Miguel Aveiro
Hi Chris, I don't think the problem is related to the serial port itself. I have a python code that uses 4 serial ports of BBB (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05) running without any problem for months. I saw your code. If it reaches the Dropping out due to an error: , I don't think it will keep

Re: [beagleboard] SD port broken?

2014-09-02 Thread Mario Giammarco
http://pastebin.com/DezagJXu I use kingston and samsung sdHc. Il giorno lunedì 1 settembre 2014 20:19:54 UTC+2, RobertCNelson ha scritto: Is it possible that the sd port is broken? The item is brand new. What type of microSD cards? (SDXC are not supported) Do you mean sdhc?

[beagleboard] Re: 16+ Analog Input Options for Beaglebone

2014-09-02 Thread Richard St-Pierre
A common practice to increase the number of ADC channels is to use an Analog Multiplexer (MUX). Use a few GPIO bits to control the addressing. You can provide a single point buffer to support the 0-5 to 0-1.8V scaling. Cheers On Monday, September 1, 2014 9:47:24 AM UTC-4,

[beagleboard] Using g_ether/g_multi

2014-09-02 Thread penou87
Hi all, I have quite troubles with using g_ether/g_multi. Hardware: BBB. Software : Linux arm 3.15.10-bone8 #1 Tue Sep 2 02:20:52 PDT 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Ubuntu 14.04 The A8 boots fine however I can't ping my usb0 interface with my PC. The setup of my interface is the

[beagleboard] Interface eth0 won't show up

2014-09-02 Thread penou87
Hi all, I have problems with the eth0 interface. Hardware: Custom BBB with no EEPROM. Software : Linux arm 3.15.10-bone8 #1 Tue Sep 2 02:20:52 PDT 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Ubuntu 14.04 The A8 boots fine however I don't see my eth0 interface. I tried using the Angstrom kernel at

[beagleboard] Re: BBB 24-bit LCD using device tree

2014-09-02 Thread David Anders
http://elinux.org/24bit_LCD_for_BBB -- 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] Can allocated pins on BBB be used as GPIOs ?

2014-09-02 Thread halfbrain
Thanks for your quick responses always. I've tried the Instructions to build the Kernel git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel.git cd bb-kernel/ git checkout origin/am33x-v3.8 -b tmp but if use the command ./build_kernel.sh . i get this message after the resolving deltas

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 3 proposed patches for next 3.8.13-bone5x update

2014-09-02 Thread Scott Michel
Alex: This conversation seemed to have gotten lost in the myriad of e-mails I get per day. Sorry for the delayed reply. Disable the HDMI interface and enable the 4 LCD, by putting this line into /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt: optargs=capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN

[beagleboard] Jr. Java Developers required $35\hr

2014-09-02 Thread Umesh IT Rec
Greetings One of our client is looking for multiple Jr. Java Developer for upgrade of their existing Applications, in NJ. Modernizing multiple legacy applications. Location: Trenton, NJ Duration 12+ mths Positions: 20 (State Project) Skills required: Knowledge of Core Java is an

[beagleboard] BBB Debian lspci command doesn't work

2014-09-02 Thread ec123ec
Hi, I've tried it logged in as debian@ and root@. root@myBBB$lspci pcilib: Cannot open /proc/buss/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. I list /proc/buss, and only one folder is there, input Do I have to modify a config file or something to get lspci to work on BBB Deb?

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Debian lspci command doesn't work

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:27 AM, ec12...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've tried it logged in as debian@ and root@. root@myBBB$lspci pcilib: Cannot open /proc/buss/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. I list /proc/buss, and only one folder is there, input Do I have to modify a

Re: [beagleboard] Can allocated pins on BBB be used as GPIOs ?

2014-09-02 Thread John Syn
From: halfbrain adrian.mitev...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 9:09 AM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Can allocated pins on BBB be used as GPIOs ?

[beagleboard] Re: Hostapd failed with USB WiFi dongle (RTL8188CUS 802.11n)

2014-09-02 Thread nadir . younees
hi, i'm encountring the same problem, did you solve this problem? if yes, how?? -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Device Tree Compiler

2014-09-02 Thread John Syn
From: Amit Sama amitsama@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014 at 4:27 AM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Device Tree Compiler Hi John, Thanks for your

[beagleboard] Problem getting i2c bus to work with SSD1803a based LCD

2014-09-02 Thread cl
I am trying to get my BBB to talk to an SSD1803a based LCD (specifically a Midas MCCOG42005A6W) and I'm failing miserably at the moment. :-( I bought the MCCOG42005A6W because it's 3.3 volt and I2C bus so thought it would be simple. I'm fairly certain I have the connections correct etc. but I

Re: [beagleboard] Problem getting i2c bus to work with SSD1803a based LCD

2014-09-02 Thread John Syn
On 9/2/14, 10:59 AM, c...@isbd.net c...@isbd.net wrote: I am trying to get my BBB to talk to an SSD1803a based LCD (specifically a Midas MCCOG42005A6W) and I'm failing miserably at the moment. :-( I bought the MCCOG42005A6W because it's 3.3 volt and I2C bus so thought it would be simple. I'm

[beagleboard] Re: custom cape i2c bus

2014-09-02 Thread prakash . parmar77
Hi !! I'm facing problem with Custom I2C cape. It's I/o Expander using NXP's PCF8574T Expander chip. I'm unable to detect it. I tried every thing available on web. Can you help me ? please ? Here is some output. root@beaglebone:~# uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13 #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 09:09:32

Re: [beagleboard] How to remove Cloud9 - files from BBB

2014-09-02 Thread max
Robert, Thanks, I found the right package while waiting for my post to be moderated. A bit worried that I might not get the 1.4.0 version with the -@ switch, as the man pages don't mention it, but the built-in help does. I see it came from a beagleboard repository. Looks like like I'm good to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: custom cape i2c bus

2014-09-02 Thread Gerald Coley
What size pullup resistors are you using on the I2C bus? Gerald On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, prakash.parma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi !! I'm facing problem with Custom I2C cape. It's I/o Expander using NXP's PCF8574T Expander chip. I'm unable to detect it. I tried every thing available on

[beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Rebooting Several Times Every Day

2014-09-02 Thread Michaël Vaes
Hi Greg - Are you booting from your SD Card or have it inserted? Michaël -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Rebooting Several Times Every Day

2014-09-02 Thread David Lambert
If you have a serial interface, I suggest turn on logging and post the results here. On 09/02/2014 06:44 AM, Greg Kelley wrote: Got my first BBB last week, installed latest Debian. USB Hot Plug was completely hosed in Kernel 3.8 so I upgraded to 3.16 (latest non-rc version). Currently running

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Jason Lange
Hello Robert, I had done just as you've described, but the system I started with had uboot and company installed in /boot/uboot rather than /boot and your 'make install' in ../dtb-rebuilder.git didn't seem to be touching /boot/uboot. I guessed that that was why I wasn't seeing the changes I was

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
Jason, /boot/uboot should have been nothing more than a mount point for /dev/mmcblk0p1. Which is the fat16 formatted partition that u-boot.img, MLO, and uEnv.txt reside. /boot/uEnv.txt should be nothing more than . .. *root@arm:~# cat /boot/uEnv.txt* *uname_r=3.8.13-bone64.1* *cmdline=quiet

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:15 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, /boot/uboot should have been nothing more than a mount point for /dev/mmcblk0p1. Which is the fat16 formatted partition that u-boot.img, MLO, and uEnv.txt reside. How would you guys feel about nuking that fat16

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
*How would you guys feel about nuking that fat16 boot partition. ;)* Quite honestly Robert. It's been around since I first got my A5A last year, so I'm used to it. But I suppose having one partition formatted as ext2/3/4 would be more convenient On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Robert Nelson

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Jason Lange j.b.la...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robert, I had done just as you've described, but the system I started with had uboot and company installed in /boot/uboot rather than /boot and your 'make install' in ../dtb-rebuilder.git didn't seem to be touching

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:45 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: How would you guys feel about nuking that fat16 boot partition. ;) Quite honestly Robert. It's been around since I first got my A5A last year, so I'm used to it. But I suppose having one partition formatted as ext2/3/4

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
*done ;)* * dd if=MLO of=/dev/sdX count=1 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=128k* * dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX count=2 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=384k* * only works on omap4+ bootrom's (so the old omap34xx/omap36xx family is out)* * I'm close to rolling out a new testing image that uses this

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
OK, so I think I got that figured out. Was not familiar with seek, but am now. So what about uEnv.txt ? On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:52 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: *done ;)* * dd if=MLO of=/dev/sdX count=1 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=128k* * dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX count=2

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:57 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: OK, so I think I got that figured out. Was not familiar with seek, but am now. So what about uEnv.txt ? /boot/uEnv.txt can be in any partition ( /dev/mmcblkXp1 - /dev/mmcblkXp7* ) 7: is the usual max enabled by default

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
*/boot/uEnv.txt can be in any partition ( /dev/mmcblkXp1 - /dev/mmcblkXp7* )* *7: is the usual max enabled by default for most normal mmc host controllers in linux.* *Regards,* Right, I get that, but in the case of NFS rootfs, how is uboot supposed to know to look over an NFS share ?

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
Oh, and nearly forgot for the fifth time heh. What about g_multi file share ? The one that gets auto mounted on Windows machines. I do not use this myself, but I'm sure there are people out there who do use it. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote:

[beagleboard] Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread murrellr
I received a Beaglebone Black to develop a homework project on. I plugged in the board to my USB and installed the Windows driver. I next wanted to develop a simple Hello world C project and debug it on this board. I didn't want to be a Newbie so I researched how to develop programs for this

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:22 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: /boot/uEnv.txt can be in any partition ( /dev/mmcblkXp1 - /dev/mmcblkXp7* ) 7: is the usual max enabled by default for most normal mmc host controllers in linux. Regards, Right, I get that, but in the case of NFS

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:23 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and nearly forgot for the fifth time heh. What about g_multi file share ? The one that gets auto mounted on Windows machines. I do not use this myself, but I'm sure there are people out there who do use it. That's why

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
*That's why we've been moving every critical file out of that partition.* * For the official lxde image, the fat partition will still be there,* * but NO critical boot files will exist in. (a windows user can add a* * 'uEnv.txt/boot.scr/boot/boot.* *scr' and it will change the boot..* * In

Re: [beagleboard] How to enable SPI devices on 3.14 kernel?

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:58 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: *That's why we've been moving every critical file out of that partition.* * For the official lxde image, the fat partition will still be there,* * but NO critical boot files will exist in. (a windows user can add a* *

Re: [beagleboard] Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
*It will take days or weeks to learn the tools to develop a 10 minute program. This is how I debugged in the 1980's. There has got to be a better environment than this.* This is not the fault of the hardware or the designers of the hardware. This is your fault for not knowing the tools.

Re: [beagleboard] USB OTG Host mode with BBB?

2014-09-02 Thread Ian Collins
Has anyone made any progress with this? I'm in the same boat trying to get this work and realise we will have to add some hardware to provide the correctly timed 5V. It looks like the biggest problem is the DRVVBUS pin for USB0 isn't tracked. Thanks. Ian. On Wednesday, 12 February 2014

[beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread Joshua Datko
murrellr-ywtbtysyrb+lz21kgmr...@public.gmane.org writes: 1. Load Putty on my PC. 2. Establish a SSH terminal session to the board. 3. Write my program using VIM (a horrible program to drop on a novice, it has a very steep learning curve) or nano (not much better). 4. Compile and link

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread William Hermans
That blog / Video is meant for the beaglebone white. There will be enough differences with those instructions for the uninitiated to get in way over their head. e.g. it will lead into another circle of frustration. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Joshua Datko jbda...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: [beagleboard] Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread William Pretty Security
Hi William; Look for a couple of Derek Molloy’s videos. He has an excellent one about using Eclipse to cross compile. If you are familiar with Eclipse, it should be a piece of cake J Bill No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread William Pretty Security
Worked ok for me J Some of the software he installs manually is now included in the Eclipse package manager. I haven’t tried the remote debugger yet, because I just downloaded it ……. No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. All that

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread Michael M
If you have an editor-of-choice(eg Sublime Text), there's a handy trick for using it remotely without needing to constantly save-upload your files. This works on Windows using WinSCP: 1) Open WinSCP and connect to the BBB 2) Create the empty source file on the BBB(main.c for example) 3) Right

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread John Syn
From: Michael M mmcdani...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 8:49 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started If you

Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days

2014-09-02 Thread Michael M
I think Miguel's logging idea is the best way to know exactly what's going on. Some additional thoughts: Based on code, if your program stops receiving data but still runs then it is probably infinitely blocking at arduino.readline(). The fact that you don't see output from print(line) or

Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days

2014-09-02 Thread Michael M
I should add that the timeout should be larger than the largest expected gap between each data transmission. For example if you expect data coming in every minute, then set the timeout to be 2 minutes. If no data comes in for 2 minutes, then you know something is wrong. On Tuesday, September

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Yet another newbie how to get started

2014-09-02 Thread Michael M
John, that's an even better trick.. thanks! I'll try it out for my next project. On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:04:16 PM UTC-7, john3909 wrote: From: Michael M mmcda...@gmail.com javascript: Reply-To: beagl...@googlegroups.com javascript: beagl...@googlegroups.com javascript: Date: