Getting Started with W2

Introduction

Overview Banana Pi BPI-W2

Overview: BPI-W2 Android 6.0

Debian 9 Linux Image Release 2018-09-18

BananaPI-W2 Ubuntu 18.04 New Image Release 2018-09-17

BananaPI-W2 Raspbian 9.4 New Image Release 2018-09-17

RPiTCv3_1.12-demo-bpi-w2-beta-2018-09-03

Read more: Banana Pi BPI-W2

Development

Let's get start to develop on BPI-W2, see amazing things happen.

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Basic Development

Prepare

• Prepare 8G/above TF card, USB-Serial interface, PC with Ubuntu System
• Using your USB-Serial Connect debug console on W2

Note: Debug Uart 3.3v TTL,Baud: 115200.

• Default IP address for LAN port: 192.168.1.1
• User name/password: pi/bananapi ,root/bananapi.

Or the user is root without a password.

• WIFI: Operwrt

Install Linux Image to SD card

Download the latest Linux Images

Note: Board SW4 switch to 1 for sd boot

Install Image to SD Card with Etcher on Windows, Linux and MacOS

Balena Etcher is an opensource GUI flash tool by Balena, Flash OS images to SDcard or USB drive.

1.Click on "Flash from file" to select image.

2.Click on "Select target" to select USB device.

3.Click on "Flash!" Start burning.

Install Image to SD Card On Linux PC with bpi-tools

1.Install bpi-tools on your linux. If you can't access this URL or any other problems, please go to bpi-tools repo and install this tools manually.

    $ apt-get install pv
    $ curl -sL https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/bpi-tools/raw/master/bpi-tools | sudo -E bash

2.After you download the image, insert your TF card into your Linux PC

    $ bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sdx

3.After step 2, then you can insert your TF card into W2, and press power button setup W2.

Install Image to SD Card with Win32 Disk Imager On Windows

How to Format SD card on Windows

How to Install Image On SD Card with Win32 Disk Imager

Install Linux Image to EMMC

1.Prepare a SDcard with Linux image flashed and bootup board with this SDcard.

2.Unzip the image and copy it to a USB drive, plug the udisk to board and mount it.（If automatically mounted, ignore this step）

   mount /dev/sdx /mnt

3.There are two ways to install the linux image to board.

• Install with dd command.

   sudo dd if=/mnt/xxx.bpi-w2-xxx.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=10M status=noxfer

• Install the linux image in udisk with bpi-tools command

   sudo bpi-copy xxx-bpi-w2-xxx.img.zip /dev/mmcblk0

4.After download complete, power off safely and eject the SDcard.

Install Android image

Download the latest Android image

Download BPI-W2 USB flash tool

Note：

1. BPI-W2 USB flash tool is a usb download tool for flashing android image to board emmc, and only support Windows platform.

2. Make sure SW4 switch to '0' for emmc boot.

3. Read w2_android_usb_download_tool/document/bananapi_w2_usb_download_tool_guide.doc before flashing image.

How to support your IR Remote

How to custom your Boot Logo

Advanced Development

SATA

1. Mount dev on W2

• After insert sata interface, execute "fdisk -l"
• Then "mount /dev/sdx /mnt/xxx"

2. If you meet some errors when you mount SATA, try these following commands:

• "fdisk /dev/sdx" to create new partition , set your partition numbers and size, after created partitions, input "wq" to save and quit.
• "mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdx" to format the SATA
• "mount /dev/sdx /mnt/xxx"

SSD

1. After you success to insert SATA, we could input following commands to test SATA interface:

• "time dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000" to test read speed
• "time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=1M count=1000" to test write speed

HDD

1. After you success to insert SATA, we could input following commands to test SATA interface:

• "time dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000" to test read speed
• "time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=1M count=1000" to test write speed

NetWork

GMAC

• iperf3 -c [server]

• iperf3 -u -c [server]

• iperf3 -s

WiFi & BT

1.If you want to use WiFi or BT, you could use RTL8822BE module.

STA

1. Use commands to setup WiFi client

• ip link set wlan0 up
• iw dev wlan0 scan | grep SSID
• vim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

network={    
ssid="ssid"    
psk="password"    
priority=1 
}

• wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
• dhclient wlan0

2. Use UI interface to setup WiFi Client

AP

Developing

GPU

• Execute "glmark2-es" to start OpenGL test
• glmark2 Score: 30