Re: [beagleboard] Re: Why did my BeagleBone Black suddenly switched off and not powering up again?

2016-08-21 Thread Wally Bkg
I've observed this 3 or 4 times always while I hear thunder and storms are in the area. My BBW is on a UPS and none of the crashes seem to correlate with UPS "beeps" or room light abnormalities, although I have good correlation between lighting on the security camera video and the last

[beagleboard] Re: How to Send email via Beaglebone Black?

2016-08-19 Thread Wally Bkg
IMHO the simplest way to do it is setup a free Gmail account and enable imap/pop support on it. Then install mutt on your BBB and configure it to send the email through Gmail. Then on the BBB do something like system("echo 'No Heartbeat:' `/bin/date` | /usr/bin/mutt -s ' Problem!' --

[beagleboard] Re: Bonescript simple examples not working

2016-08-13 Thread Wally Bkg
Bonescript has had various breakages because of kernel changes for over a year now. No solid solution yet, but Jason & Robert seem to be working on it, look for a new image on beagleboard.org when Jason puts it up. In the meantime, I evaluated several images in June and July, search for my

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Debian Jessie (systemd 230 backport)

2016-08-11 Thread Wally Bkg
I recently went through the the same thing on RiPi2, needed apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade I'm not sure the original apt designers envisioned all the firmware blobs required by these ARM processors which seem to require a lot of synchronized changes. I'm looking forward to testing the

[beagleboard] Re: beaglebone black debian update issue

2016-08-10 Thread Wally Bkg
My experience with apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade is generally poor if you've not been keeping up to date nearly continuously. I'd suggest getting another 8GB micro-SD card and installing the latest image from beagleboard.org, or one of Robert's testing images:

[beagleboard] Re: No USB network connection (192.168.7.2) when booting from eMMC

2016-08-06 Thread Wally Bkg
I've found the USB Ethernet Gadget to be somewhat unreliable in the 2016-05-13 images. Often I need to press the reset button and reboot two or three times before it works. I think there was some race condition that may be worse booting from the eMMC. If that doesn't work, it won't hurt

[beagleboard] Re: Plz help me with google chrome web browser

2016-08-06 Thread Wally Bkg
Its real hard to troubleshoot someone else's network remotely, but since you say Firefox works, what are the connection settings in Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Network->Connection Settings? That should give you the proxy settings that you should then be able to put them into Chrome.

[beagleboard] Re: Serial Communication with BBB

2016-07-31 Thread Wally Bkg
Good place to start for serial programming in C https://www.cmrr.umn.edu/~strupp/serial.html I've no experience with CAN ports. On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 6:17:41 AM UTC-5, Dror Lugasi wrote: > > hey guys, > i am new to BBB and i need to use it for serial communication: reading > data from

Re: [beagleboard] Re: UART4 read in pthread not working

2016-07-31 Thread Wally Bkg
Since you are not getting the timeout errors from your read thread, there is definitely something wrong with your UART initilization. And since you need to kill your program with Ctr-C, your read thread would seem to be running and blocking main() in the pthread_join(). Have you read through

[beagleboard] Re: UART4 read in pthread not working

2016-07-25 Thread Wally Bkg
CSAFLUSH, ); //before > exit, undo raw setting > //return -1; > }else{ > printf("Byte sent: %d \n", count); > } > > > pthread_exit(0); > } > > > > > On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 10:50:52 PM UTC

[beagleboard] Re: UART4 read in pthread not working

2016-07-22 Thread Wally Bkg
I noticed you have options.c_cc[VMIN] = 2; If for some reason only one character comes in, it'll block forever. Try using options.c_cc[VMIN] = 0; so that each char can timeout if its not received. How big are the Beaglebone uart buffers? You may still have a race between your write of the

[beagleboard] Re: UART4 read in pthread not working

2016-07-20 Thread Wally Bkg
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 1:56:50 AM UTC-5, Regina Choi wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have programmed (in C) UART4 read in thread with blocking read, the code > as below: I confirmed that the UART receive port does have data through > oscilloscope, but somehow there is no data in read( ), the

[beagleboard] Re: problems with static ip address on eth0

2016-07-20 Thread Wally Bkg
Have you tried booting with the USB cable not plugged into your computer? I've never tried using both the USB gadget and wired Ethernet at the same time. When I want a static IP on the local network I usually find it easier to go to the router's admin page and set a static IP based on the

[beagleboard] Re: How to recovery after disable eMMC in uEnv.txt

2016-07-20 Thread Wally Bkg
Have you tried downloading an image from beagleboard.org and writing it to an microSD card and booting from that? I recommend the etcher utility for writing the SD card. Any of the images should work. Once you've booted the SD card you can mount the eMMC with: sudo mkdir /mnt/emmc sudo

[beagleboard] Re: UART, serial port read C/C++

2016-07-20 Thread Wally Bkg
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 1:42:34 PM UTC-5, Andrey wrote: > > Hello, > > I need to use an UART to communicate between beaglebone and the device. I > have written the C code, but it has a few problems within it. I can't > identify the cause of the problem or to be more precise don't know how fix

[beagleboard] Re: Couldnt open launch http://192.168.7.2/

2016-07-12 Thread Wally Bkg
Have you rebooted Windows since installing the "USB gadget Ethernet" drivers? Try opening the Start.htm file in the MSDOS drive that gets created when you plug in the BBB, and navigating to the BBB webpage from that. What image is on your BBB? some of them have had errors in the "top level"

Re: [beagleboard] How to Compile OpenCV 'Hello World'

2016-07-12 Thread Wally Bkg
And if that doesn't work, make sure the development packages ( libxxx-dev) for the open CV libraries are also installed. Its one of my biggest frustrations with Debian/Ubuntu that installing the library doesn't generally install the header files for that library. On Monday, July 11, 2016 at

[beagleboard] Re: Not working properly

2016-07-10 Thread Wally Bkg
The "USB Gadget" Ethernet address should be 192.168.7.2 on. If your host OS won't mount the SD card, might be difficult (impossible) to install the drivers that your OS might need for the gadget interface. Check the beagleboard.org site to try and find a link to downloading the drivers

Re: [beagleboard] Chrome update has made using google groups painful

2016-07-03 Thread Wally Bkg
Mystery solved, although I've no clue how or why it happened. Clearing the cache didn't change anything, then I noticed that on the new Desktop I was browsing: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!categories/beagleboard While on the notebook I was browsing:

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone crashing during thunderstorms!

2016-07-03 Thread Wally Bkg
On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 11:13:12 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > *Thanks for the info about the input voltage sensitivity of the >> Beaglebone, good chance this is the real issue, especially as there was a >> good chance for "ground bounce" between different parts of the system from >>

Re: [beagleboard] Chrome update has made using google groups painful

2016-07-03 Thread Wally Bkg
Truly weird, works as expected on the notebook, which is also the same Chrome version, so apparently the update was a bit longer ago than I remembered. Note the quoting worked here. I'll try clearing the cache and check if I'd changed a setting somewhere on the new system. Thanks again for

Re: [beagleboard] Chrome update has made using google groups painful

2016-07-03 Thread Wally Bkg
Appreciate the help! It worked fine with the initial version of Chrome for Ubuntu-MATE 16.04, but a few days ago there was an update and google groups seems to have lost most features for me. I'll check again on the old notebook I used for my initial test installation, I don't think its been

[beagleboard] Chrome update has made using google groups painful

2016-07-03 Thread Wally Bkg
I've updated my main desktop system and the "latest" Chrome browser is making Google Groups hard to use. Seem to have lost the option to quote messages among other things. I'm uisng: Version 51.0.2704.106 (64-bit) Any non-obvious setting that I've missed? Its logged into my gmail fine, and

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone crashing during thunderstorms!

2016-07-03 Thread Wally Bkg
Thanks for the info about the input voltage sensitivity of the Beaglebone, good chance this is the real issue, especially as there was a good chance for "ground bounce" between different parts of the system from my mistake in powering one of the PIR sensors off the "wrong" UPS. Time will tell.

Re: [beagleboard] Testing usb webcam, out of space during cheese installation

2016-06-30 Thread Wally Bkg
I would try to dd the eMMC to an 8GB or larger SD card, and then boot it and run grow_partition.sh after you boot it. I think this would be faster that starting over unless you've not changed much from the "stock" image. I've never had much luck with cheese, sounds like you are familiar with

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone crashing during thunderstorms!

2016-06-30 Thread Wally Bkg
"Well, I don't know where to start. A detailed diagram of the entire system hookup would help. Gerald" Being in active use for ~25 years and hooked to a variety of computers as the years have passed, its never been a problem, but the best I could do would be a scan of the diagrams I've built

[beagleboard] Beaglebone crashing during thunderstorms!

2016-06-28 Thread Wally Bkg
It happened again, my Beaglebone White crashed as a thunderstorm moved through the area. It is on a UPS, the same UPS as my router ASUS RT-AC56 and Raspberry Pi2, neither of which glitched in any way. It does have a lot of interface wiring hooked up but these are very thoroughly EMP protected

[beagleboard] Re: No free space on SD card partition after writing 2016-06-05

2016-06-20 Thread Wally Bkg
I know that, that is why I said its not a show-stopper, and Windows users can still boot the card and run grow_partition.sh, but the previous testing lxqt images were apparently sized to match the 4GB eMMC. If there is a reason for it, (new slightly smaller eMMC chip to save a few pennies on

[beagleboard] Re: trouble with image bone-debian-8.5 / 2016-06-05

2016-06-20 Thread Wally Bkg
Why all these changes to /sys/devices tree? Its ugly and will remain ugly no matter what they do with the names, but these changes break existing code and documentation to what benefit? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

[beagleboard] No free space on SD card partition after writing 2016-06-05

2016-06-20 Thread Wally Bkg
bone-debian-8.5-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-06-05-4gb.img.xz leaves no free space on the partition it creates when written to an SD card. I've done it using both dd and Etcher, on two different brands of 8GB cards. Its not a show-stopper since grow-partition.sh still works after the Beaglebone has

[beagleboard] Re: apt-get -y install ntp gives error Failed to fetch http://security...

2016-06-09 Thread Wally Bkg
Maybe this is overkill for your purposes, but when I was working with multiple Pandaboards in a lab that didn't allow them real internet access I used this to set up "local repos" using a laptop and external USB drive connected and home and then moved into the lab and connected to the

[beagleboard] Re: Debian Jessie USB drive problem

2016-06-08 Thread Wally Bkg
One more thing, since you are mounting by UUID why/how does the code writing to the drive "know" its sda1? As long as its mounted at /mnt/usbdrive it shouldn't matter if its sda1 or sdb1. you could try mounting /dev/sda1 instead of UUID=. Have you verified that the usb/drive is really

[beagleboard] Re: Debian Jessie USB drive problem

2016-06-08 Thread Wally Bkg
What is the reason for the nofail option in /etc/fstab? Any reason you can't format the drive as ext4? I've seen articles claiming serious performance benefits for USB drives as ext4 instead of ntfs. I'm doing similar on a Raspberry Pi2 with Jessie and have had no such issues, but I have a

[beagleboard] Re: 2016-05-31 vs. 2016-05-13

2016-06-07 Thread Wally Bkg
As far as my "newbie tests" go 2016-05-31 has the same issues as does 2016-05-13. -- 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

[beagleboard] 2016-05-31 vs. 2016-05-13

2016-06-03 Thread Wally Bkg
I noticed: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz is out and that: https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz is now "current". Will apt-get update & apt-get upgrade

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black Kernel Main Differences

2016-05-30 Thread Wally Bkg
I went through a "trying all the kernels" about a year ago, with no significant improvements to the issues I was having. More details about your issues would help those with more experience than I give you specific advice. While things continue to improve, the state of the art on Beaglebone

Re: [beagleboard] Wifi dongle issues (Edimax EW-7811UN) - some questions on BBB power options, and powered USB hubs

2016-05-23 Thread Wally Bkg
This is from 2013, but the Edimax dongle seems to have reliability issues on the Raspberry Pi as well as the BBB. This looks to be an easy solution to try: http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=50=44171=220622#p220593 On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 11:00:20 AM UTC-5, Marcos Scriven wrote:

Re: [beagleboard] Wifi dongle issues (Edimax EW-7811UN) - some questions on BBB power options, and powered USB hubs

2016-05-23 Thread Wally Bkg
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8:59:36 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Marcos Scriven > wrote: > >> 2) Why does the wifi interface name change from wlan0 to wlx801f02a693cf >> upon connmanctl connection? >> >> > systemd does that: >

Re: [beagleboard] Wifi dongle issues (Edimax EW-7811UN) - some questions on BBB power options, and powered USB hubs

2016-05-23 Thread Wally Bkg
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8:59:36 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > 2) Why does the wifi interface name change from wlan0 to wlx801f02a693cf > upon connmanctl connection? > > systemd does that: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ > > > >>

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Serial Communication on Beaglebone Black

2016-05-20 Thread Wally Bkg
> The only thing I can think of is for some reason perhaps, the default > serial port settings must be different on the bbb (with debian) than my pc > (where I previously successfully had communicated-windows) > On 20 May 2016 08:19, "Wally Bkg" <wb666...@gmail.com > >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Serial Communication on Beaglebone Black

2016-05-20 Thread Wally Bkg
On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7:08:55 PM UTC-5, Shaurabh Kumar Singh wrote: > Okay. I shall look it up. > By the way, i did confirm the working of the UART pins(UART1 RX to UART4 > TX and vice versa). > I had two terminal tabs open and when i typed into one and entered(UART1 > settings) it

[beagleboard] Re: How to GO BACK to not flasher micro SD?

2016-05-20 Thread Wally Bkg
If its a "flasher" image you downloaded, I don't know because I've never used one. But if its one of the more recent images, you just comment out the line in /boot/uEnv.txt that you uncommeneted to make it flash the eMMC on boot up. A recent /boot/uEnv.txt has this as the last three lines:

[beagleboard] Re: Serial Communication on Beaglebone Black

2016-05-19 Thread Wally Bkg
I'm not big on Python, but it looks like you are using some of the Adafruit libraries, they are broken for some kernels, I'm not the guy to tell you if your current kernel is one of them. To isolate the problem, do: apt-get install minicom and jumper RX to TX. I think by default in Debian

[beagleboard] Re: Serial Communication on Beaglebone Black

2016-05-19 Thread Wally Bkg
What kernel and image? newer ones use config-pin to activate the UARTS and seem to have problems with some of the overlays. On: BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-11-12 with kernel: 4.1.18-ti-r49 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 26 00:12:54 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux It boots "cape-universal" and I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Best (most-stable) console image to start from?

2016-05-19 Thread Wally Bkg
ore responsive, while using the operating system. > > The uio_pruss examples all work fine, or at least worked fine with 4.1.x > when i tested a couple months ago, or slightly longer. > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >&g

[beagleboard] Re: How to Discern if a BBB is Dead

2016-05-19 Thread Wally Bkg
Sorry if this is too obvious, but the BBW won't do anything without a micro SD card plugged in, do you have an SD card with a fresh image loaded and plugged it before powering up? The BBB has an eMMC "flash" preloaded, so its likely dead if the previous owner didn't break the boot by messing

Re: [beagleboard] spontaneous reboot issues bbb, jessie 8.4 console image of 4/7/2016, 4.4.9 -bone-rt-r10 LTS kernel

2016-05-19 Thread Wally Bkg
I've a BBW running 24/7 since December with: BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-11-12, kernel 4.1.18-ti-r49 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 26 00:12:54 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux It is on a UPS and I've had exactly one lock up, happened last week -- actually looked like it had powered down, all LEDs off.

[beagleboard] Re: Best (most-stable) console image to start from?

2016-05-19 Thread Wally Bkg
I'm not ready yet, other things need to be finished first, but unless better recommendations and examples appear before I get to it, I plan on starting with the 3.8.13-bone70 kernel and Wheezy (7.8) used by Derek Malloy in his "Exploring Beaglebone" PRU examples;

Re: [beagleboard] Automatic shutdown options for loss of power?

2016-05-16 Thread Wally Bkg
On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 5:45:21 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > You do not need anything connected to the beaglebone for any reason. The > beaglebone has an on die ADC that can detect if the AC mains is powered or > not. In which case, after a preset time period the Beaglebone could shut

Re: [beagleboard] Automatic shutdown options for loss of power?

2016-05-16 Thread Wally Bkg
This is a solid idea and along the lines I've been thinking, I already have implemented the wall-wort AC-failure detector :) Maybe its not a problem for you, but what happens if the power remains out long enough for the battery to run dead? (we generally seem to have at least one 12-18 hour

Re: [beagleboard] Re: lxqt-4gb and iot release candidates uploaded for beta testers

2016-05-16 Thread Wally Bkg
On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 2:39:43 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > Quite honestly, and with all due respect to Jason. I'm not quite sure of > the need for bonescript period. Everything it does can be abstracted using > Nodejs + the Nodejs fileSystem object. But I've been saying this for

Re: [beagleboard] Automatic shutdown options for loss of power?

2016-05-16 Thread Wally Bkg
Looks like nut been ported to Debian for the BBB. It and a smart UPS might be the easiest solution. I'm thinking along these lines, but haven't done anything with it yet. The nut client getting a signal over the network from my desktop is kind of what I'm thinking. I've my BBW IOT app,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: lxqt-4gb and iot release candidates uploaded for beta testers

2016-05-16 Thread Wally Bkg
On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 10:59:33 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > Oh my mistake, i thought getting the pwm sub-system working in > v4.1.x/v4.4.x with bonescript was something you were personally interested > in. > Only to the point that an LED and CdS photocell make a nice demo using

Re: [beagleboard] Re: lxqt-4gb and iot release candidates uploaded for beta testers

2016-05-16 Thread Wally Bkg
On Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 4:23:28 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > As the user that wants this feature, whey haven't you posted any patches > that fix this yet? > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > As I've said before, I'm ignorant and incompetent at web page

[beagleboard] Re: lxqt-4gb and iot release candidates uploaded for beta testers

2016-05-15 Thread Wally Bkg
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

Re: [beagleboard] BBW weird lock-up and difficult restart.

2016-05-14 Thread Wally Bkg
> > However, unplugging the serial debug cable ( PL2303hx ) on the USB sides > cures the glitch. > > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> I've a BBW (Rev A6) that has been running an IOT application 24/7 for 5 >> or 6

[beagleboard] BBW weird lock-up and difficult restart.

2016-05-14 Thread Wally Bkg
I've a BBW (Rev A6) that has been running an IOT application 24/7 for 5 or 6 months now. Its worked great, until now. I had a weird hard lockup where it stopped with all the LEDs off and didn't respond to the reset button. I immediately suspected failure of the 5V supply as the 12V parts of

[beagleboard] Re: lxqt-4gb and iot release candidates uploaded for beta testers

2016-05-14 Thread Wally Bkg
I'm downloading the 4GB lxqt image and will give it a go on my A5A BBB and a recent BBG. I'll post any issues here. I'm particularly testing the "newbie" out of the box experience starting with the Start.HTM web page link to the bonescript examples, cloud9 IDE examples with some hardware

Re: [beagleboard] Disable cape manager?

2016-05-12 Thread Wally Bkg
If one did this, would config-pin still work to enable a UART etc? On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 11:00:37 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:26 AM, wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm just trying to improve the boot time on my beaglebone black using

Re: [beagleboard] Using UART3

2016-05-12 Thread Wally Bkg
Assuming he's using one of the newer images, Any reason it can't be done with config-pin instead of an overlay? On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 1:55:08 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Michael Williams > wrote: > >> Thank you, Robert,

[beagleboard] Re: Programming without programming discussion

2016-05-09 Thread Wally Bkg
On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 1:24:19 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > So wally I didn't want to step all over Jason's post by discussing this > further, there. Also keep in mind that this is just a discussion. There is > not right or wrong, only right or wrong for individuals. Or personal >

Re: [beagleboard] Kinoma at the Embedded Linux Conference 2016

2016-05-06 Thread Wally Bkg
On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 11:17:43 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > The concept I think is flawed. Programs like these that create > "programmers" without the ability to write code, or at minimum write decent > code. Flawed as in that the end result is a "programmer" that can not think

Re: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2016-05-01

2016-05-06 Thread Wally Bkg
On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 12:58:33 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > william@beaglebone:~$ df -h / > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mmcblk0p1 1.7G 1004M 536M 66% / > > Thats also why I recommend to anyone who will listen. That they should > create two different

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian testing: 2016-05-01

2016-05-05 Thread Wally Bkg
:45 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> FYI. >> On the my BBB with the 2016-05-01 lxqt testing image >> I'd not apt-get installed anything. >> >> I did: >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian testing: 2016-05-01

2016-05-05 Thread Wally Bkg
FYI. On the my BBB with the 2016-05-01 lxqt testing image I'd not apt-get installed anything. I did: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade There were 5 packages to be upgraded: bb-bonescript-installer-beta c9-core-installer libssl1.0.0 openssl rcnee-access-point The

[beagleboard] Re: debian testing: 2016-05-01

2016-05-04 Thread Wally Bkg
Happy to report that this is the first image in a while that has booted correctly on my A5A BBB with the USB "gadget" Ethernet. I'm concerned my particular board has USB hardware issues, but that is a problem for another day. The START.htm link worked, the simple flash the LEDs bonescript

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get install bb-node-red-installer fail

2016-05-03 Thread Wally Bkg
;package will be held back message" manduring an upgrade several months ago. On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 11:45:35 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> >> Still works here: > >

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get install bb-node-red-installer fail

2016-04-30 Thread Wally Bkg
). Thanks again for all the help! On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 5:49:18 PM UTC-5, Wally Bkg wrote: > > If I'm the only one with this issue don't worry about it, please move on > to more important things. > > I did test my idea using node-red on the BBG. The mqtt stuff work

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get install bb-node-red-installer fail

2016-04-29 Thread Wally Bkg
Thanks for the suggestion but it still didn't work: Setting up bb-node-red-installer (0.13.4-0rcnee1~bpo80+20160321+1) ... bb-node-red-installer:npm: [2.15.0] bb-node-red-installer:node: [v0.12.13] bb-node-red-installer:Installing: systemd-0.2.6 (for node-red) npm WARN engine systemd@0.2.6:

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get install bb-node-red-installer fail

2016-04-29 Thread Wally Bkg
So the question appears to become can this system be upgraded to node-js 0.12.x? If it can't, I can test my idea on the RPi2 or BBG and only put a new image on the BBW to run it where it "belongs" if it pans out. Physical accessibility of the BBW is less than convenient now that the hardware

[beagleboard] apt-get install bb-node-red-installer fail

2016-04-29 Thread Wally Bkg
I'm still having issues with installing the node-red & bonescript stuff. I have a BBW that has been running my IOT application 24/7 with great success for about the last four or five months. Its running: cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-11-12 uname -a Linux alarmbone

Re: [beagleboard] Is bonescript compatible with node version >0.10.x ?

2016-04-28 Thread Wally Bkg
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 10:08:09 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Any suggestions on getting node-red-node-beaglebone to work with >> bonescript-0.5-beta3? I'm thrilled th

Re: [beagleboard] Is bonescript compatible with node version >0.10.x ?

2016-04-28 Thread Wally Bkg
programming is even more newbie friendly when starting with an idea and a blank page. On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 12:30:08 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Are the no

[beagleboard] Re: Connecting USB device into GPIO ?

2016-04-28 Thread Wally Bkg
Any reason not to use a powered USB hub? It could probably power the BBG as well. On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 3:36:43 PM UTC-5, Ded Sec wrote: > > As topic leads, can a USB device be hooked into GPIO's? > I need Wifi and BLE devices in BBG but dues one USB its one or other. So > since BLE

Re: [beagleboard] Is bonescript compatible with node version >0.10.x ?

2016-04-28 Thread Wally Bkg
Are the nodejs and npm for ARM versions numbered differently? or are they really this far behind the x86 versions? on Ubuntu 32-bit 16.04: nodejs -v v4.2.6 >From what I gather, I'm new at the nodejs stuff, 4.4.3 is the "current" stable LTS version. I've no appreciation of the consequences of

Re: [beagleboard] bb-bonescript-installer-beta ( 0.5.0-beta5) upgrade fails

2016-04-25 Thread Wally Bkg
On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 9:04:38 AM UTC-5, Wally Bkg wrote: > > The 192.168.7.2/bone101/Support/bone101/ interactive tutorial page > doesn't work and the "Navigation" pane on the left side of the page doesn't > render and I never get the "your beaglebone is

Re: [beagleboard] bb-bonescript-installer-beta ( 0.5.0-beta5) upgrade fails

2016-04-25 Thread Wally Bkg
I'm very confused by what is going on with these npm updates being trigged by apt-get upgrades. But I got the bb-bonescript-installer-beta upgrade to apparently install by doing: apt-get purge bb-bonescript-installer-beta apt-get install bb-bonescript-installer-beta The cloud9 bonescript

Re: [beagleboard] bb-bonescript-installer-beta ( 0.5.0-beta5) upgrade fails

2016-04-23 Thread Wally Bkg
? On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 7:16:58 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6:04:21 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>

Re: [beagleboard] bb-bonescript-installer-beta ( 0.5.0-beta5) upgrade fails

2016-04-22 Thread Wally Bkg
On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6:04:21 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > >> Sorry that I forgot to mention that it was an lxqt image. >> > > Okay, i'll check that quickly. .;) > > >> >> >>> >>> if you do : dpkg --list | pastebinit >>> >>> we can compare against: >>> >>>

Re: [beagleboard] bb-bonescript-installer-beta ( 0.5.0-beta5) upgrade fails

2016-04-22 Thread Wally Bkg
On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 5:32:44 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > Has a required kernel upgrade come it that doesn't install with apt-get > upgrade? > > Nope... > > >> >> I've been using this system the way I figure a newbie who only wanted >> bonescript, python, and node-red might do.

[beagleboard] bb-bonescript-installer-beta ( 0.5.0-beta5) upgrade fails

2016-04-22 Thread Wally Bkg
bb-bonescript-installer-beta upgrade fails: make: Entering directory '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bonescript/node_modules/ffi/node_modules/ref/build' CXX(target) Release/obj.target/binding/src/binding.o SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/binding.node COPY Release/binding.node make:

[beagleboard] Re: Beagle Bone Black with HD camera Cape from Radium boards

2016-04-14 Thread Wally Bkg
I was trying to use USB webcams, but I gave up on the Beaglebone for my image processing and switched to a Raspberry Pi2 and the Pi Noir (no IR blocking filter) camera (5Mpixel). The new Pi3 would be even better as its got a faster processor. On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:00:50 AM UTC-5,

[beagleboard] Re: beaglebone black PWM

2016-04-14 Thread Wally Bkg
While I prefer CVI over LabView, you might find the new LINX 3.0 LabView for Linux libraries useful: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/LINX-3-0-LabVIEW-for-BeagleBone-Black-and-Raspberry-Pi-2-3/td-p/3278758 OTOH, I'm not sure why you want a C program to generate PWM when there already are

Re: [beagleboard] Re: How to create an image file from a bootable microSD card

2016-04-12 Thread Wally Bkg
for something you probably don't use all that often. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> The downside of this is your 4GB Emmc image will be a 4GB file. If you >> have a "real" web or ftp server its not mu

Re: [beagleboard] Is bonescript compatible with node version >0.10.x ?

2016-04-12 Thread Wally Bkg
Any suggestions on getting node-red-node-beaglebone to work with bonescript-0.5-beta3? I'm thrilled that all the bonescript examples in cloud9 IDE now work (analogwrite, analogRead, digitalRead, digitalWrite, & attachInterrupt) without errors or spurious error messages, but the

[beagleboard] Re: How to create an image file from a bootable microSD card

2016-04-12 Thread Wally Bkg
I think bmaptools will be the most efficient way in terms of the file you distribute. But I'm not sure if the bmaptools are available for Windows systems https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool/usage/bmaptool-create Otherwise you can dd the SD card to xzcat to produce a

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Mapping BBB as a Drive on Windows

2016-04-11 Thread Wally Bkg
Connecting like this, your Windows system usually ends up on a different subnet from the BBB, with the Windows system routing between them so there may be issues with the file sharing default settings. That is why I asked if you can see your BBB in Network Neighborhood on your Windows box.

[beagleboard] Re: Mapping BBB as a Drive on Windows

2016-04-11 Thread Wally Bkg
Assuming you are using Samba, it should work. Can you access it via "network neighborhood" on Windows? If you can't that explains why Map Drive won't work either. I also recall getting much better error messages when connecting through network neighborhood. One thing that sometimes trips

Re: [beagleboard] PRU configure and basic test not working

2016-04-05 Thread Wally Bkg
so others can > learn. If you need help with getting the info you need, we are all prepared > to help. > > Regards, > John > > > > > On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > I think the output of uname -a for you

[beagleboard] Re: PRU configure and basic test not working

2016-04-05 Thread Wally Bkg
I think the output of uname -a for your kernel version is more helpful than the Debian version which is running when it comes to overlays, modules, and Beaglebone hardware specific issues. I'm subscribing to this thread, as you are doing what I've planned to do in the not too distant future,

[beagleboard] Re: Confused about npm installs.

2016-04-04 Thread Wally Bkg
The johnny-five beaglebone-io didn't go any better :( as root: cd .node-red npm install -g --unsafe-perm johnny-five beaglebone-io npm ERR! Linux 4.1.18-ti-r55 npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "--unsafe-perm" "johnny-five" "beaglebone-io" npm ERR! node v0.12.12 npm ERR!

[beagleboard] Re: node-red-node-beaglebone install broke node-red on 2016-03-27 image

2016-04-03 Thread Wally Bkg
I managed to get node red working again with: sudo npm uninstall -g --unsafe-perm node-red-node-beaglebone sudo apt-get purge bb-node-red-installer sudo apt-get install bb-node-red-installer > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because

[beagleboard] Re: Difference between Beaglebone Console and IOT images?

2016-04-02 Thread Wally Bkg
I'd like to add that I think Robert is doing an amazing job of putting together highly functional systems with his 4GB lxqt images. I don't want anything I say taken as being critical or complaining, I'm mostly just trying to point out issues that would likely be a showstopper for a newbie

Re: [beagleboard] Difference between Beaglebone Console and IOT images?

2016-04-02 Thread Wally Bkg
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 12:59:41 PM UTC-5, Dieter Wirz wrote: > IIRC, I only did an "apt-get install geany". > > Maybe you have to add > X11Forwarding yes > to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the server;) > Unless apt-get install xinit did it automatically, X11Forwarding yes seems to

Re: [beagleboard] Difference between Beaglebone Console and IOT images?

2016-04-02 Thread Wally Bkg
) actually has better interaction than when running on the BBB HDMI display, so its very useful! On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 2:18:46 AM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: > > > > On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Robert Nelson <robert...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30,

[beagleboard] Re: node-red-node-beaglebone install broke node-red on 2016-03-27 image

2016-04-01 Thread Wally Bkg
Some extra follow-up possibly related to the issue above. Doing apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on 2015-11-12 the bb-node-red-installer upgrade failed ... Setting up libjasper1:armhf (1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1) ... Setting up bb-node-red-installer (0.13.4-0rcnee1~bpo80+20160321+1) ...

Re: [beagleboard] State of uio_pruss in 4.1.18-ti and later kernels?

2016-04-01 Thread Wally Bkg
Please, pretty please could you map which kernel versions work correctly with what Beaglebone functions on the elinux site. It seems we can't have it all with a single kernel at the moment. I've been sticking with either the kernels in "Latest" at beagleboard.org or your testing images --

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone and Chromebook connection

2016-04-01 Thread Wally Bkg
What Beaglebone image are you running? I've found many of the recent images have issues with getting the "USB gadget" Ethernet over USB to work reliably. Without the USB gadget interface the ssh debian@192.168.7.2 will not work. Can you try a wired Ethernet connection? Then the ssh login

[beagleboard] node-red-node-beaglebone install broke node-red on 2016-03-27 image

2016-04-01 Thread Wally Bkg
The 2016-03-27 image got off to a very good start for me with node-red working out of the box and all the Bonescript issues I'd had with earlier images appear fixed -- analogRead/Write, digitalRead/Write and attachInterrupt in the Cloud9 examples all appear to run correctly without throwing

[beagleboard] Confused about npm installs.

2016-03-31 Thread Wally Bkg
I'm looking to install node-red-node-beaglebone on 2016-03-27 image. These instructions seem clear: cd ~/.node-red (which would be /root/.node-red) sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red-node-beaglebone Although I note that the instructions to edit ~/.node-red/settings.js and un-comment

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