Re: [beagleboard] Communication between 4 BBB

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
Beowulf would be far overkill for something as trivial as this. All you really need is some form of communication ( I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet, etc ), and then a software protocol. Some form of IPC could even work, although technically, it would not really be IPC. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:23 PM,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread Mehreen Qayas
Thank you. What about BlackLib? There is a library for BBB to access its GIOP and generate PWM etc? Plus is this an efficient way to code in the long run? I shall be working on my Windows computer and pursuing cross-compiling for my Angstrom BBB using Eclipse IDE (in c++). I have checked some

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread evilwulfie
IS there a reason your sticking with angstrom ? Debian seems to be the default choice and most updated linux for the BBB. Robert Nelson is pushing full steam ahead on debian for us all. you might want to just install linux and a toolchain in a VM on your windows box On 1/8/2015 10:10 PM,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread Mehreen Qayas
I read that BBB is shipped with Angstrom. And I only have to update the Angstrom if I want to but even without it, I can connect it to my PC and using PuTTy, make a connection between the two. But I'll have to install Debian on my own for the BBB, no? Okay, if I do install Linux on my windows

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread evilwulfie
I dont think that angstrom is being updated for the BBB anymore Debian is what is currently shipping with all the boards i have got. I would install debian in a VM and get a ARM toolchain installed https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/h0axz1Jgv6U On 1/8/2015 10:30 PM, Mehreen

Re: [beagleboard] Re: PRU programming from within bare-metal or Starterware application

2015-01-08 Thread Karl Karpfen
Michal, this is up to you. You can load binaries from files during runtime or convert the binaries to header data and use them as arrays directly. I'm using second variant. Karl 2015-01-08 14:01 GMT+01:00 michal.niebieski...@gmail.com: Hi Karl, This is useful information. But can you tell

[beagleboard] Cloud9 IDE console.log()

2015-01-08 Thread Milton Schreiber
Have other people noticed that to view all of console.log writes in the Cloud9 console window requires resizing the window? In other words if your code has two lines of console.log(), I only see the second line until I resize the console window. Is there any fix for this? -- For more options,

Re: [beagleboard] How do I install Arduino 1.6 in the BeagleBone Black?

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
May I add, that I think it is really cool that you as a dad are willing to work with your son on a project as this. For multiple and possible obvious reasons. But that I do not exactly know your level of experience in this arena You're potentially going to run into several road blocks on this

Re: [beagleboard] Communication between 4 BBB

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
Is it possible that you understand some programming language(s), and the concepts of at least one communication protocol ? it is entirely possible that something like this already exists that I am unaware of. But honestly it should not be something too challenging if you have some programming

Re: [beagleboard] How do I install Arduino 1.6 in the BeagleBone Black?

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
Like Robert says, the Arduino IDE ( wiring ) is packaged for x86 / x86-64 not ARM. *HOWEVER* since the Arduino IDE is based on wiring, you can create your own IDE using this with different pre-compiled binaries for a specific target. Which was done for the MSP430 launchpad ( Energia )

Re: [beagleboard] [Black] Alsa doesn't see the default sound card

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
It sounds like that drivers when first started are run via modprobe, etc, but not placed in /etc/modules so as to reload when booting. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:48 AM, mrw...@gmail.com wrote: I have a rather odd problem, and was wondering if you guys could shed some light on it. After first

Re: [beagleboard] Re: H264 HD Encoding at 30FPS

2015-01-08 Thread liyaoshi
Wait for X-15 ? 2015-01-09 4:59 GMT+08:00 Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:00 AM, hassanmailb...@gmail.com wrote: HY Mikhail, I also want to do H.264 video encoding at 30 FPS using embedded platforms. I have following option: Tegra K1, Tegra

Re: [beagleboard] Communication between 4 BBB

2015-01-08 Thread Netland Holding
Well, you are lucky, yes it is possible! Ron 2015-01-08 6:22 GMT-05:00 juggernu...@gmail.com: *Question,* Is it possible to connect four BBB, three of them having a monitor with touch screen display and the input going to the main and out putting the necessarily commands? Is this possible

Re: [beagleboard] GPMC hardware contention with e-MMC

2015-01-08 Thread wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard
Gerald: thank you for explanations. I am a newcomer to the Beagle. I was quite confused seeing frequent remarks that e-MMC can be held in reset in order to use the GPMC. Being neither a SW nor a HW person I tend to consult all such details with the respective data sheets before committing to

Re: [beagleboard] Crystal oscillators on BBB

2015-01-08 Thread wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard
Gerald: thank you for the answer. From your post I understand that the 25 MHz crystal has now been tested with AM335x. Please let me know if this is not the case. I do not consider your design decisions as mistakes. Your explanations are very helpful while I am designing my own BBB-alike

Re: [beagleboard] Re: GSoC-Adding Sense to Beagle

2015-01-08 Thread c . adhityaa
Hi, Dinesh: Did you get any reply from GSoC? Were you selected for GSoC? I am interested in something very similar. On Friday, April 9, 2010 8:05:53 PM UTC+5:30, dinesh vyas wrote: hi this is last moment for the submission of my project :) so I request a feedback of my proposal from

Re: [beagleboard] Crystal oscillators on BBB

2015-01-08 Thread Gerald Coley
I have not done any testing, so I have no idea if it has been done or not. Just understand that changing the base crystal will require changing the clock dividers inside the processor to keep everything working. Gerald On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:19 PM, wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard

Re: [beagleboard] How do I install Arduino 1.6 in the BeagleBone Black?

2015-01-08 Thread Mike
On 01/08/2015 04:50 PM, William Hermans wrote: Like Robert says, the Arduino IDE ( wiring ) is packaged for x86 / x86-64 not ARM. *HOWEVER* since the Arduino IDE is based on wiring, you can create your own IDE using this with different pre-compiled binaries for a specific target. Which was

Re: [beagleboard] GPMC hardware contention with e-MMC

2015-01-08 Thread 'Mark Lazarewicz' via BeagleBoard
The gpmc pins will also need to be reconfigured in SW From: Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org on with e-MMC These are decisions you have to make. I mentioned this before as being an issue sharing both modes. Sounds like you finally came to the same conclusion. The chip was designed

[beagleboard] Re: Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread Karl Karpfen
The question is, what you plan to do exactly. There is e.g. a nice process control software available at http://openapc.com/ which is also available for BBB/Ubuntu ARMHF. With this software you shoukld be able to set up a project that interfaces between host PC and BBB. Am Donnerstag, 8.

[beagleboard] Data Storage

2015-01-08 Thread faimbs
Hello! How about data storage with PHP or postgres on BBB? The eMMC Chip is same as sd-card? Guess it will be kill the eMMC after some month? Thank you! -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread Mehreen Qayas
Right now the basic plan is to -control my Input and Output pins on BBB -generate PWM for a DC motor by programming in c++ using my window 7 computer. I have understood the interfacing. This link was very useful: - http://inspire.logicsupply.com/p/beaglebone-getting-started_3.html But now my

Re: [beagleboard] Recompile kernel

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Kuhn
Hi, boot takes much longer with 69 kernel: [0.767408] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: pin 44e10854 already requested by 44e10800.pinmux; cannot claim for gpio-leds.8 [0.779110] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: pin-21 (gpio-leds.8) status -22 [0.786380] pinctrl-single

[beagleboard] Interfacing BBB with Windows Computer

2015-01-08 Thread Nova Jack
Hello everyone. I'm pursuing a college project which requires the use of a single board computer. I have worked with Arduino ATMEGA2560 on my computer with OS Windows 7. I'm new to BBB. I have read the Getting Started with BBB on its website. Gone through the wiki page that instructs how to

Re: [beagleboard] Recompile kernel

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Kuhn
Hi, thanks: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone69 #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 09:16:29 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux Just to be sure: I untar'd 3.8.13-bone69-modules.tar.gz and copied 3.8.13-bone69.zImage to /boot/uboot/zImage. Is this enough? Whats about 3.8.13-bone69-firmware.tar.gz and

[beagleboard] Re: AM2315 sensor requires a method that seems to be unavailable on BBB, but is on rPI

2015-01-08 Thread Ian Woloschin
Unfortunately you might be out of luck. I'm not certain, but that sounds like a problem I had with a HIH6130 temperature sensor. I think the answer was basically you either need to bit-bang an I2C bus or do some kernel hacking to get the I2C bus to act appropriately. I wound up going with a

[beagleboard] Re: How to disable debug in Cloud9

2015-01-08 Thread Milton Schreiber
Thanks so much! I had looked all over, but never noticed the little green bug. On Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:26:15 AM UTC-5, Soapy Smith wrote: Click the little green bug once. It will turn black. This will deactivate the debugger. -- For more options, visit

[beagleboard] *** Can't run myblink.js in cloud9! Any ideas?

2015-01-08 Thread Constantinos paradisenauts
The code on this page http://192.168.7.2/Support/bone101/ executes fine! When I copy and paste cloud9, the debugger highlights and stops in the first line i.e. var b = require('bonescript'); *Any ideas on what needs to be done?* Cheers :) *Code:* var b = require('bonescript');

[beagleboard] How to disable debug in Cloud9

2015-01-08 Thread Milton Schreiber
I'm sure it's simple, but I can't figure out how to disable debug in Cloud9 IDE. I'm running the latest Debian on the BBB. Sorry if this is a duplicate. I couldn't find my original post. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

Re: [beagleboard] Using setup_sdcard.sh script from prebuilt images resulting in readonly fs

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
*If it is worth noting, i had to comment out the g_serial (line #86) and uncomment the g_ether (line #88) for getting the desired behavior of showing up as ethernet over USB,which I think is the most common behavior.* Only one gadget driver can be loaded at a time. This is why g_multi

Re: [beagleboard] Recompile kernel

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
We'd need to know exactly what steps you did in order to get an idea of what is going wrong. I've followed those same exact steps personally( many many times ), and have never had a problem other than doing something wrong on my end. As for the long boot times, if and when it actually boots

[beagleboard] AM2315 sensor requires a method that seems to be unavailable on BBB, but is on rPI

2015-01-08 Thread Rex Byrns
Going crazy trying to get a AM2315 I2C Hygrometer to work with my BBB. The datasheet http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/AM2315.pdf Says that I have to wake up the sensor before using it. I have tried writing to it once, then waiting the 800us it wants. I then sent the write command to tell

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Running C/C++ applications using OpenCV in Eclipse

2015-01-08 Thread William Hermans
There are gcc binaries for Windows at minimum from linaro. I've used them, they work fine. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:53 PM, janszymanski12...@gmail.com wrote: My guess is that there are precompiled libraries, so if you cross compile on PC the library code is for x86 - it will not work on ARM.

[beagleboard] Re: How to disable debug in Cloud9

2015-01-08 Thread Soapy Smith
Click the little green bug once. It will turn black. This will deactivate the debugger. -- 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

[beagleboard] BeagleBone SPI1 Adafruit Library (Debian Wheezy)

2015-01-08 Thread Boris Ostrovskiy
I've had SPI0 happily working. Then I had to switch to SPI1 (disable SPI0). Due to the issue in Debian Wheezy, custom capes need to be added, enabled by adding CAPE=ADAFRUIT-SPI1 to /etc/default/capemgr On bootup bone_capemgr.*/slots shows the correct SPI1 cape loaded and only SPI1, which is

[beagleboard] Re: H264 HD Encoding at 30FPS

2015-01-08 Thread hassanmailbox4
HY Mikhail, I also want to do H.264 video encoding at 30 FPS using embedded platforms. I have following option: Tegra K1, Tegra X1, Beagle bone and Raspberry PI. Since i am a beginner in this field. Can u kindly tell me that whether you were successful in doing H.264 encoding on

Re: [beagleboard] Crystal oscillators on BBB

2015-01-08 Thread Gerald Coley
Because that was what all the SW was written to handle from the beginning and was the frequency that was tested. The other frequency at the time had not been tested. I went with what I knew to work. Sorry if I made a mistake. Yes, you can add additional cost and use an external oscillator if you

[beagleboard] Re: BB View 7 inch Cape problem with BBB

2015-01-08 Thread dennis . d . trinh
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:00:21 AM UTC+2, srikanth koorma wrote: I have recently purchased BBB and BB View 7 inch LCD from Element14 Website. Now what my problem is i cant get output from LCD even-though Leds on Cape lights up  when i connect it to BBB. I have the following components

[beagleboard] [Black] Alsa doesn't see the default sound card

2015-01-08 Thread mrwien
I have a rather odd problem, and was wondering if you guys could shed some light on it. After first installing alsa-base and alsa-utils, alsa recognises the default sound card, but after rebooting it will not. I have no idea how to circumvent this, and it seems to be the cause of my USB

[beagleboard] Re: PRU programming from within bare-metal or Starterware application

2015-01-08 Thread michal . niebieski . mn
Hi Karl, This is useful information. But can you tell how to actually load text_bin and data_bin into compiler?? Are you creating static table hardcoded into .c file or there is some easier way to do this? On Thursday, 20 November 2014 06:44:37 UTC, Karl Karpfen wrote: There are many

Re: [beagleboard] Re: H264 HD Encoding at 30FPS

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:00 AM, hassanmailb...@gmail.com wrote: HY Mikhail, I also want to do H.264 video encoding at 30 FPS using embedded platforms. I have following option: Tegra K1, Tegra X1, Beagle bone and Raspberry PI. Since i am a beginner in this field. Can u kindly

Re: [beagleboard] How do I install Arduino 1.6 in the BeagleBone Black?

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Jack_RobotDad j...@silbermans.net wrote: Hello, I am working on a small robot project with my son. I need to install the Arduino IDE 1.6 (e.g., nightly build Linux 32) into my BBB. The Arduino IDE from the repository installed easy using application

[beagleboard] Crystal oscillators on BBB

2015-01-08 Thread wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard
Hello: is there any particular reason why BBB uses two different crystal frequencies, 24 MHz for the CPU and 25 MHz for the Ethernet chip? Can the two be merged into a single 25 MHz frequency? There is a boot mode option of using 25 MHz for the CPU. Why is it not used? Concerning the 12 MHz

[beagleboard] Communication between 4 BBB

2015-01-08 Thread juggernut15
*Question,* Is it possible to connect four BBB, three of them having a monitor with touch screen display and the input going to the main and out putting the necessarily commands? Is this possible or am I out of luck? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss ---

[beagleboard] How to turn off Debug in Cloud9 IDE

2015-01-08 Thread mschreiber
I'm sure it is simple, but I have not been able to figure out how to turn off debug in Cloud9 IDE. I'm running the latest Debian on the BBB. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard

[beagleboard] How do I install Arduino 1.6 in the BeagleBone Black?

2015-01-08 Thread Jack_RobotDad
Hello, I am working on a small robot project with my son. I need to install the Arduino IDE 1.6 (e.g., nightly build Linux 32) into my BBB. The Arduino IDE from the repository installed easy using application management, but it does not support the Arudino Due boards as is. I have basically

[beagleboard] GPMC hardware contention with e-MMC

2015-01-08 Thread wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard
Hello: I want to use GPMC with the Bone-Black. For the best GPMC performance I want to use the address/data multiplexed mode: the pins AD0..AD15 will transmit the address and data, the pins A0..A11 transmit the remaining address bits. Looking at the BBB schematics page 3 there seems to be a

[beagleboard] mcasp clock on BeagleBone Black for PCM3168

2015-01-08 Thread pablo7fonovich
Hi... I want to interface a PCM3168 codec to the bleaglebone black, but i don't know if the SCKI of the codec shoul be connected to mcasp0_ahclkr or the mcasp0_ahclkx, or if the trhee of them sould be driven externally with a PLL or something... I've already looked up in datasheets of arm3358,

Re: [beagleboard] GPMC hardware contention with e-MMC

2015-01-08 Thread Gerald Coley
These are decisions you have to make. I mentioned this before as being an issue sharing both modes. Sounds like you finally came to the same conclusion. The chip was designed fro one or the other. Not both, despite the ability in SW to switch modes. You need to remove the eMMC from the board. Cut