Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-08-04 Thread Brandon I
You can do read only with stock debian using this approach: http://ecloud.org/index.php?title=Debian_on_read-only_media This is very important for long term installs with flash media. If you do need to write, use a usb flash disk that the customer can get to and replace when needed, because it

Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-08-04 Thread Daniel Pickford
Matty, Sounds like a fun project! My issues with the BBBs historically have all been power related and SD card related. I can't say I've ran one for longer that a few months without rebuilding it, but it's the first few months that generally present the hardware problems. In regards to a

[beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-07-29 Thread Matt Pinner
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

Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-07-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Matt Pinner mpin...@gmail.com writes: tldr: can i run a BBB for three years? Sure! I'm about to fly a BBB (w the latest debian) high into the rafters at a space in Denver. Awesome! It will control 1440 leds over SPI from pixel data sent over UDP via OPC. What is OPC? Presumably this

Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-07-29 Thread Brandon I
Don't forget, read only mount! Flash has limited writes and is can easily be corrupted/damaged from power failure. On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:02:52 AM UTC-7, Ben Gamari wrote: Matt Pinner mpi...@gmail.com javascript: writes: tldr: can i run a BBB for three years? Sure! I'm about

Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Fort
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