On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 4:56:26 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > No, my goal is not to learn how to use Linux properly. My goal is to get a >> small app going in Android on a development board that uses BB as user >> interface. I think I know how to write an app in Android, but I'll be the >> first one to agree that I don't have even a satisfactory-level >> understanding of Linux. Nor do I have the time or desire to gain it; I have >> been able to achieve my goal in the past without this knowledge. >> >> I was hoping the combination of BeagleBone Black, BB VIEW, and an Android >> distribution would work out of the box, but it's crystal clear it doesn't >> (there's not apparently even a distribution of Android that works with BB >> VIEW). >> >> Thanks to the "nurturing" support environment for validating my decision >> to stay away from BeagleBone. >> > > 4 Days, and 28 posts all for you, and that's not "nurturing" enough ? > > Sorry buddy, but if you can not step up to the plate, and learn what you > need to learn. IN order to get things done. I do not care what board you're > going to use. You'll never get anything working. > > Anyway, do you see the thanks those of us who volunteer our time to help > such nice people as yourself gets us ? A flipping kick in the teeth. Good > riddance. >
Au contraire, I actually got everything I needed for this stage of my project done over the past few days, on the same BeagleBone, once I got past the non-working BB-View and the damaged SD cards. I receive data over UART from another circuit board and serve it over http to localhost, making a nice UI in Chrome; works fine even with my limited knowledge of Linux. It's a stopgap and inefficient solution, I'll be looking forward to making the concept work in Android that should give finer control over the UI, but will suffice for now. Many thanks for Robert's clear advice; people over at the element14 community board seemed surprised and thankful for his recipe that makes their seemingly inoperable BB-Views function. I can live with the script damaging my SD cards, they aren't that expensive. I just wondered if BeagleBoard community may be interested in this apparent, reproducible fault. It should be obvious from William's message immediately above why we will not use BeagleBone going forward. His messages were unhelpful and I don't see why I should be thankful for ridicule. For an allegory that may be of some relevance, the knowledge of Maxwell's equations isn't necessary to turn on a light bulb. Many people in this world only need a light bulb. That doesn't make them worthless. I'm certainly glad you can derive the equations, but all I need is light from the bulb, and I sure appreciate working electrical power and a working light switch. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/9bfe50f9-841a-468d-8b44-7dbf0f3c11e6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
