{"id":3357,"date":"2013-02-20T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2013-02-20T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T02:52:21","slug":"working-on-beaglebone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Working on BeagleBone"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 2 miles]<\/p>\n

I’ve received my BeagleBone board and I have been working on it a bit.<\/p>\n

The first task I took on was to get it to work reliably with the household wifi.\u00a0 That has been a disappointment.\u00a0 From google searching it seems that many people have this complaint.\u00a0 There is a package called connman to manage connections.\u00a0 It works fine for me with a wired ethernet connection but it does not work hardly at all for wifi.\u00a0 And the tools and documentation are vaporware.<\/p>\n

It looks like a newer release of connman might help me, but I need to get more into how to upgrade the Angstrom software on the BeagleBone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So far I am not impressed with the idea of putting this thing out in yard and expecting it to do it’s thing without oversight.<\/p>\n

But!\u00a0 Some folks have removed connman completely and gone with a different connection manager.\u00a0 I may end up doing that too.<\/p>\n

It has turned out to be a bigger issue than I was expecting.<\/p>\n

Another piece I need to address is the serial connection to the weather station.\u00a0 I can work on that while I get the wifi figured out, I can just hook it up to wired network and do the serial thing here in the house.\u00a0 Anyway,\u00a0 I needed to get a level-shifter to translate between the voltage level on the weather station (5 VDC) down to the voltage on the serial pins of the BeagleBone (3.3 VDC).\u00a0 I have ordered an inexpensive level-shifter and that should come in the mail soon.\u00a0 It would be nice to have one of those things working within the next week or so.<\/p>\n

Here is a picture of the BeagleBoard with a dollar to show the size of the thing.<\/p>\n

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