Re: [beagleboard] LiPo power cape for Beagle Bone.

2014-01-14 Thread Mike Bremford
Hi Ron Did you cater for inputs above 14V? If powering from 12V lead-acid batteries, they typically charge at 14.4-15V but I'd certainly expect spikes of higher and I wouldn't want to plug in anything that couldn't take up to 16V safely. I see you have a 15V zener on there so the regulator won't

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Embedded Security

2014-01-10 Thread Mike Bremford
On 9 January 2014 21:51, rh_ richard_hubb...@lavabit.com wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:36:27 -0800 (PST) Martin AA6E martin.s.ew...@gmail.com wrote: This article by Bruce Schneier is sobering, and it applies to most of us building embedded systems. Some of us may get security updates

Re: [beagleboard] ssh, telnet not responding after a few days of working.

2014-01-10 Thread Mike Bremford
Would plugging and unplugging the usb cause problems? On kernel 3.8.13, yes it would. Turn it off and on, does it come back up? If so, try upgrading to kernel 3.13 - should fix your USB issues. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you

Re: [beagleboard] 3G Modems

2014-01-06 Thread Mike Bremford
I've used a Huawei E3131 USB dongle which has an external antenna socket - not hard to setup under Linux, as it presents itself as an ethernet interface. There's nothing BeagleBone specific about setup, the steps documented here are for debian:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Java on BBB

2014-01-03 Thread Mike Bremford
I assume you mean the one at http://lhuet.github.io/blog/? Interesting, I would have expected more difference between soft/hard float on the BBB. Your Raspberry Pi results comparison doesn't surprise me at all however! What a difference Arm7 makes... On 3 January 2014 10:55, Laurent H.

Re: [beagleboard] multiple serial ports...

2013-12-31 Thread Mike Bremford
Hi Bruce For RS-232 by far the easiest way to do it is order some of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2PCS-High-Compatiablity-USB-to-232-RS232-Adaptor-Converter-PL-2303HX-MAX232-/271358227870. I've ordered a few, they work well. There are other types but if it's definitely RS-232 you're using

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Angstrom leak?

2013-12-31 Thread Mike Bremford
Try du -shcx /* to see how much disk space directory is taking, then drill down from there. If I had to guess, and yes I'd suggest /var/log is a good bet... On 31 December 2013 04:01, james.wang@gmail.com wrote: So, I just noticed that after I boot Angstrom on BBB, the available memory

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-31 Thread Mike Bremford
not the cape manager so much, it's the ability to change the mode of the pins as described here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/YqONs50YKWU/VuVsbBhQNl0J. On 30 December 2013 22:37, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Mike Bremford m

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-31 Thread Mike Bremford
was created, a bus scan incorrectly finds no devices. Thanks Robert! On 31 December 2013 15:25, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: Well, i got 3 of these working on 3.13 last night.. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Mike Bremford m...@bfo.com wrote: Uh, well for me it's the virtual

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-31 Thread Mike Bremford
It's P9.18, P9.17 - there's nothing in the logs either I'm afraid. On 31 December 2013 16:55, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Mike Bremford m...@bfo.com wrote: I see what you're doing, patching am335x which is presumably loaded directly

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-30 Thread Mike Bremford
Aside from hotplug there is nothing wrong with USB in kernel 3.8.x. I have even installed, and booted from a USB hard drive using 3.8.13-bone26. Nope, not the case. My kernel was hanging, no logs, nothing on serial console under 3.8.13. No hotplugging, good hub etc., no babble interrupt - the

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-30 Thread Mike Bremford
wrote: Excellent summary Paulo. I would add one level: 0) Novice user level - Expects a shrink wrapped system to just work like Windows, but without the crashes ;) A very Happy New Year to all, Dave. On 12/30/2013 03:13 AM, Paulo Ferreira wrote: On 30/12/2013, at 02:03, Mike Bremford

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Mike Bremford
TI Supports their kernel at git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti which contains linux-3.12 Angstrom is based on openembedded-core and meta-openembedded, but is not using the standard repos. You need to check out the Yocto-1.5 branch to get access to the latest stuff though. If you clone

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Java on BBB

2013-12-20 Thread Mike Bremford
That's a Java ME class, and I expect you're running Java SE aren't you? There's no reason that I'm aware of to run the micro-edition on hardware like the BBB, it's easily got enough grunt to run the full JVM. I'm accessing GPIO, I2C, SPI from J2SE using JNA ( https://github.com/twall/jna) which

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Volumio - Audiophile Music Player on Beaglebone Black

2013-12-16 Thread Mike Bremford
Not sure about the OP, but I'm using https://github.com/abrasive/shairportand it works well. On 16 December 2013 14:08, taffson a.hir...@gmail.com wrote: May I ask what package or projects you use for Airplay receiver emulation? On Monday, 16 December 2013 02:38:47 UTC+1, Michelangelo

Re: [beagleboard] Fail trying to enable uart5

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Bremford
That looks familiar. Try these threads: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/ge7kwDXxMC8/2ZS4ggbTZBgJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/YqONs50YKWU/VuVsbBhQNl0J On 12 December 2013 13:09, Renato Riolino renato.neocor...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm trying to enable all the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Using the WBYJB02 3.2 Touch Screen LCD - dx.com

2013-12-10 Thread Mike Bremford
I've used SPI exactly once so am far from an expert, but I did successfully hook up a 16550 series UART using SPI1_D0 as MOSI, SPI1_D1 as MISO, SPI1_SCLK as SCLK and SPI1_CS0 as the chip select, which worked with /dev/spidev1.0 (I used SPI mode 0, and I loaded the BB-SPIDEV1 virtual cape from

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Enabling uarts, i2c and spi

2013-12-08 Thread Mike Bremford
There is no UART3 RX, I believe the pin wasn't exposed for some reason. UART5 works fine (and I too have a GPS wired to it and working nicely) under kernel 3.8. Although you have to disable the HDMI, see http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2013/07/18/disabling-the-beaglebone-black-hdmi-cape/. You

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black 12C Keyboard

2013-12-05 Thread Mike Bremford
Why not use a Teensy? http://pjrc.com/teensy. You can set it to emulate a USB keyboard very easily: plug the Teensy into your Beaglebone and your I2C into the Teensy, and you're done - no drivers required. They're nice little boards and very well supported, I've used them for a few projects, and

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Need Help with UART configuration

2013-11-29 Thread Mike Bremford
that causes the problems for me. Can you maybe suggest the best way how I should address the UART in my software, I haven't seen any examples for the UART programming using c/c++ on beaglebone online. Thanks On 28 November 2013 18:35, Mike Bremford m...@bfo.com wrote: It's the shell

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Need Help with UART configuration

2013-11-26 Thread Mike Bremford
I'm really not sure this question at all. UART4 Tx a single wire which is high by default. Put a multimeter on the uart4tx pin to confirm this. If you send data to it then it goes out in blocks of N bits (N normally being 10 - start bit, 8 data bits, stop bit), then returns to the default state

[beagleboard] Can't change pin modes in kernel 3.12

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Bremford
Following on from this: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/ge7kwDXxMC8/2ZS4ggbTZBgJ Where the HDMI is active despite being apparently disabled, I think I know why: you can't change the mode of *any* of the pins in kernel 3.12 Here's my test. First, I check the state of the pinmux for

Re: [beagleboard] good, *current* online tutorial for capemgr for BBB?

2013-11-20 Thread Mike Bremford
and BB-UART5 for kernel 3.12, I'm attaching them here as well in bb-uart-dts-312.tar.gz On 19 November 2013 18:34, Mike Bremford m...@bfo.com wrote: The .dtbo's distributed with Robert's 3.12 kernel binary exhibit the symptoms I described, but no I haven't compiled from DTS source (because I

Re: [beagleboard] good, *current* online tutorial for capemgr for BBB?

2013-11-19 Thread Mike Bremford
an easy fix. On 19 November 2013 16:06, selsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:09:09 PM UTC, Mike Bremford wrote: Not for me they're not! The UART DTBOs are not working correctly under 3.12: BB-UART1 creates /dev/ttyO2, not /dev/ttyO1 as it should. BB-UART2 and 4 are also

Re: [beagleboard] Re: create image from current state of the eMMC

2013-11-18 Thread Mike Bremford
I've used Robert Nelsons scripts for this - if you installed using his kernel and the steps outlined here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Flasher then you'll have /boot/uboot/scripts/tools/beaglebone-black-copy-eMMC-to-microSD.sh. I ran this to backup my eMMC to SD, then verified the results

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is it possible to run BBB off cheap rechargeable batteries?

2013-11-13 Thread Mike Bremford
Search ebay for LM2596 buck converter. Variable output up to 3A, 10 for $10 from China. I'm running my setup from a 12V car battery through these. There are buck/boost converters to be had on ebay too, they're a bit more expensive but still probably cheaper than you can make them yourself. On 13

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Mike Bremford
If they're analog, surely you'd just hook them up to the analog pins and read them the normal way? Probably with a couple of resistors to reduce the voltage range to 1.8V? http://learn.adafruit.com/measuring-light-with-a-beaglebone-black?view=all Out of curiousity is there a reason you're using

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black freezing, USB related?

2013-11-09 Thread Mike Bremford
I switched up to Kernel 3.12 and that certainly fixed my stability issues with USB - haven't seen any USB related issues since then, wireless is fine, 3G modem is fine, everything working. Unfortunately I've lost my UARTs, but that's a different story and no doubt one that will resolve itself as

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Mike Bremford
, November 9, 2013 5:09:23 AM UTC-5, Mike Bremford wrote: If they're analog, surely you'd just hook them up to the analog pins and read them the normal way? Probably with a couple of resistors to reduce the voltage range to 1.8V? http://learn.adafruit. com/measuring-light-with-a-beaglebone

Re: [beagleboard] good, *current* online tutorial for capemgr for BBB?

2013-11-07 Thread Mike Bremford
Not for me they're not! The UART DTBOs are not working correctly under 3.12: BB-UART1 creates /dev/ttyO2, not /dev/ttyO1 as it should. BB-UART2 and 4 are also incorrectly out by one, and UART5 doesn't load at all. The UART DTBOs are definitely NOT working correctly under 3.12. On 7 November

Re: [beagleboard] kernel bug cpsw.c in linux arm 3.8.13-bone28

2013-11-06 Thread Mike Bremford
Hi Robert Thanks for this. I'm still seeing a difference with the UARTs loaded from the device-tree overlays in /lib/firmware: I ask for BB-UART1, 2, 4 and 5, I get /dev/ttyO2, ttyO3, ttyO5 and an error in /var/log/syslog - of_resolve: Could not find symbol 'uart6' (I've disabled the HDMI cape,