have you considered environmental factors where it will be installed? what extremes of temperature and humidity will it see? also make sure you're running from onboard eMMC as doing so eliminates yet another connector issue. basicly keep the board cool and dry and it ought run for a good long time. also let us know where this is going so we can come see your great art!
Eric On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Matt Pinner <mpin...@gmail.com> wrote: > tldr: can i run a BBB for three years? > > I'm about to fly a BBB (w the latest debian) high into the rafters at a > space in Denver. > > It will control 1440 leds over SPI from pixel data sent over UDP via OPC. > > This is all very exciting for me and things have been running fairly > smoothly and the community support and blogs have been enormously helpful. > > Now i'm kind of freaking out bc this thing should ideally run as stably as > any light fixture and i'm not sure a good way to really test that kind of > thing. > > the sub one-minute boot up time seems acceptible enough, so the client can > always reboot it, but then what does that do the filesystem? > > i've started looking into logrotate to keep the disk cleared, but there is > still the question how many read/write cycles will the eMMC accept before > drama happens? > > I plan to have a private network running so i should be able to login to the > BBB for some kind of maintenance and troubleshooting. do i run a long > (100ft) serial cable? and usb cable as well? > > im tempted to put it online so i can check from afar, but i feel that > invites all kinds of new room for disaster and abuse. > > i realize these are more debian/sys-admin/collo questions than BBB specific, > but i thought there might be some specific examples of people doing this > type of thing or suggestions from this group for what to check and lookout > for. > > thanks for your consideration, questions, and suggestions! > > -matt > > -- > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
