[beagleboard] Mystery: Beaglebone Black doesn't respond ping or ssh regularly

2014-01-01 Thread JJ
I have my BBB connected to a ADSL modem/router in bridged mode, so BBB gets directly an external IP. But sometimes, actually many times an hour, it doens't respond to any protocol: I have tried pinging, ssh and http-request but nothing reaches BBB (connection timeout). However, I have set a cron

[beagleboard] Re: Motion software / em28xx issue, fails with Watchdog timeout

2014-01-01 Thread JJ
I confirm this issue is not only related to Arch, but also Debian Wheezy. They detect Easycap dongle fine, but motion doen't want to capture video from it. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

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

2014-01-01 Thread Anguel
Happy New Year everybody! Well, reading all those comments here about non-profit and break-even calculations my theory is the following: Big TI saw the great success of the Raspberry Pi and its engaged community so they decided to copy it. They created the "non-profit" Beagleboard.org and let

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

2014-01-01 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2014-01-01 at 04:13:55 -0800, Anguel wrote: > Well, reading all those comments here about non-profit and break-even > calculations my theory is the following: > > Big TI saw the great success of the Raspberry Pi and its engaged community > so they decided to copy it. They created the "non-pro

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

2014-01-01 Thread Anguel
On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:37:02 PM UTC+1, Elena Grandi wrote: > > This theory has a problem: Beagleboard.org was born in 2008 or so, > much earlier than the Raspberry (which started to be known to the > public in 2011, and was available in 2012). > Ok, I admit I am not much aware of the

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

2014-01-01 Thread APRichelieu
Den onsdagen den 1:e januari 2014 kl. 13:13:55 UTC+1 skrev Anguel: > > Happy New Year everybody! > > Well, reading all those comments here about non-profit and break-even > calculations my theory is the following: > > On the other hand it is very interesting for me to know how much this > "non-

[beagleboard] Re: Mystery: Beaglebone Black doesn't respond ping or ssh regularly

2014-01-01 Thread APRichelieu
Have the same problem, and it looks like "dropbear" crashes from time to time. My application is connecting to the Internet about once every five minuites, and this works, but ssh'ing in fails occasionally I now run a script in the background which restarts dropbear, if it has crashed though

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Motion software / em28xx issue, fails with Watchdog timeout

2014-01-01 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:08 AM, JJ wrote: > I confirm this issue is not only related to Arch, but also Debian Wheezy. > They detect Easycap dongle fine, but motion doen't want to capture video > from it. Can you retest with v3.13-rc6? Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For m

[beagleboard] I2C read from onboard devices

2014-01-01 Thread Robert Ianovich
Hello, I saw that onboard EEPROM is connected at 0xA0 (0x50) slave address but ioctl() on this address failed. Anyone can point me to read this i2c device ? The same problem with HDMI framer, I cannot read from it's slave address 0xE0 (0x70) Thanks -- For more options, visit http://beagleboa

[beagleboard] Failed to boot from existing card and failed to install new debian installation

2014-01-01 Thread charlie
I have had my BBxm up and runnning for some months and yesterday whilst trying OpenHab it crashed and when rebooted it says: /bin/sh:cant access tty; job control turned off (initramfs) I tried creating another debian installation on a sd micro 8GB card using RobertCNelson installation script whi

Re: [beagleboard] Failed to boot from existing card and failed to install new debian installation

2014-01-01 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:19 PM, charlie wrote: > I have had my BBxm up and runnning for some months and yesterday whilst > trying OpenHab it crashed and when rebooted it says: > /bin/sh:cant access tty; job control turned off > (initramfs) > > I tried creating another debian installation on a sd

Re: [beagleboard] Failed to boot from existing card and failed to install new debian installation

2014-01-01 Thread charlie
./mk_mmc.sh --mmc /dev/sdb -dtb omap3-beagle-xm --distro wheezy-armf This seemed to all work fine but when I put it in to the BBxm nothing happened. See attached. Cheers Charlie On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 6:24:36 PM UTC, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:19 PM, charlie > >

Re: [beagleboard] Failed to boot from existing card and failed to install new debian installation

2014-01-01 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:44 PM, charlie wrote: > ./mk_mmc.sh --mmc /dev/sdb -dtb omap3-beagle-xm --distro wheezy-armf > > This seemed to all work fine but when I put it in to the BBxm nothing > happened. > > See attached. OH my!!! - Finished populating Boot Partition

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

2014-01-01 Thread David Anders
On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 6:55:38 AM UTC-6, Anguel wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:37:02 PM UTC+1, Elena Grandi wrote: >> >> This theory has a problem: Beagleboard.org was born in 2008 or so, >> much earlier than the Raspberry (which started to be known to the >> public in 20

[beagleboard] Safe shut down BBB

2014-01-01 Thread rkrasow...@yahoo.com
Hi Happy New Year I would like my BBB to be shot down correctly via shut down or halt command if power into BBB is interrupted ( and by doing that avoid corruption of my SD card). So, I have two supercapacitors - 10F 2.7v connected in series, what I am looking for is a dc/dc converter ( ste

[beagleboard] Re: Safe shut down BBB

2014-01-01 Thread kevind
There are some interesting and unbelievably cheap converters on eBay (i.e. $1.56 + $1 shipping!): However, in order to force a clean shutdown you'll need to detect loss of input power (voltage comparator circuit on a breadboard cape?), generate an interrupt to the CPU, and have a software drive

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

2014-01-01 Thread Hugh Johnson
> Anyone willing to donate some funds so we can fund some SW developers? > > Gerald Yes. Thanks, Hugh Johnson -- 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

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

2014-01-01 Thread William Hermans
You know what I find "funny" ? That here is one hell of a piece of hardware ( complete system ), that costs $45( very good price ), that works very well if you're willing to spend some time working on it ( software ). And all a bunch of people on this list can do is complain, find conspiracy theor

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Safe shut down BBB

2014-01-01 Thread William Hermans
I really have not researched or looked into it at all really, but It seems to me as kevind says above it would be best to buy, or even make an "inline" UPS. I had been looking at these high capacity USB charger type devices, which to me seems to be a perfect fit. But again I have no looked too deep

[beagleboard] Re: Can't get BeagleSNES to work on BBB

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Paul
So close... I had an old PC sitting around collecting dust so I formatted that to Ubuntu 12.04. I re-did everything from that machine. Before I started, when I plugged in the SD card that I had setup from the Win7 machine into the Ubuntu machine it seemed to mount the two partitions fine ...

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

2014-01-01 Thread David Lambert
Well said William! Initially, I adopted Angstrom as it seemed to be the "official" way that the Beagle community was heading. About a month, however, ago I felt that Angstrom was not meeting my needs as far as stability and "support", so I changed to Debian. No big deal. It only took a day or t

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Should I bitbang i2c ?

2014-01-01 Thread Christopher Hopwood
Here it is: https://github.com/mcdonamp/RH_ROBO_Quadcopter/blob/master/i2c_bitbang/pru_sw/example_apps/control_alg/imu.p I wrote it so we could communicate with an MPU6050 IMU via PRU for part of my senior design project. It's a little rough, and was programmed with the MPU6050 in mind, and has

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Should I bitbang i2c ?

2014-01-01 Thread Christopher Hopwood
I checked our project's wiki, and oddly I don't see the PRU calling conventions documented there anymore. Here's the jist of it: --all registers are to be preserved upon exit from a functions (besides the retval registers) --the stack grows downwards. If you have any other questions abo

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Should I bitbang i2c ?

2014-01-01 Thread Christopher Hopwood
Oh, and there is also bitbanged pwm in there as well, if you go up a directory. The files in control_alg are the ones being actively developed, and demonstrates a (rough) control algorithm for our quadcopter, which hasn't actually flown yet. But it does show how to use the PWM and i2c PRU fun

[beagleboard] Re: MATLAB / Simulink on BeagleBone Black

2014-01-01 Thread kevind
Errata: In the "MATLAB Configuration section", "ubuntu" should be lower case: Username: "ubuntu", and Build Directory "/home/ubuntu". The Google groups spell checker capitalized them on me even though I typed them in lower case. And there's no option to edit the original post, all I can do is

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

2014-01-01 Thread Terry Storm
What is funny is that it still seems to be expected that everyone who buys a BBB should be required to have the capability to make it work correctly. Your argument is valid but still only for a small proportion of buyers. Think of all the people out there who have brought a BBB to maybe be a ste

[beagleboard] Cross compiling linux for BBB

2014-01-01 Thread Carl-Fredrik Sundström
I want to get started in kernel development for the BBB and I can't find where to start, I have done work before developing Linux drivers for network interface cards and TV tuner cards. Is there a document that describes how to setup a cross compilation environment for lets say an ubuntu work

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

2014-01-01 Thread John Syne
From: Terry Storm Reply-To: Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 7:05 PM To: Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant > What is funny is that it still seems to be expected that everyone who buys a > BBB should be required to have the capability to make it work

Re: [beagleboard] Cross compiling linux for BBB

2014-01-01 Thread John Syne
From: Carl-Fredrik Sundström Reply-To: Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 9:15 PM To: Subject: [beagleboard] Cross compiling linux for BBB > > > I want to get started in kernel development for the BBB and I can't find where > to start, I have done work before developing Linux drivers f

Re: [beagleboard] Re: HDMI/VGA adapter works with pi but not BBB

2014-01-01 Thread AGSCalabrese
On Saturday, November 30, 2013 7:11:18 AM UTC+5:30, Jim Hodgers wrote: I was using an Adafruit HMDI/VGA adapter with my rpi. It worked with both of my VGA monitors. Now I am trying to use with a BBB, from Adafruit and it does not work with either monitor. One is a 20" 2000x1090 widescreen monit

[beagleboard] Where to find the PCB revision #

2014-01-01 Thread AGSCalabrese
. where is the board revision # printed on the PCB ? I have looked all over the PCB with a magnifying glass. If the revision is not silkscreened why not ? 99guspuppet -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [beagleboard] Where to find the PCB revision #

2014-01-01 Thread Donald Jacob
On the side of the GPIO connector there is a white label with serial number (?) and the revision, A5C on one of my and A5A on the other. Don On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:29 PM, AGSCalabrese wrote: > . where is the board revision # printed on the PCB ? I have looked all > over the PCB with a