Getting Started with M2P

Introduction

Banana Pi M2+ is mini size development board that offers great computing performance in an ultra portable form factor.It is a 65mm*65mm fantastic mini size board with Allwinner H series chips. It comes with different versions but share the same interfaces.

Read more: Banana Pi BPI-M2+

BPI-M2+ H3

Key Features

• Quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 H3
• 1GB DDR3
• 8GB eMMC onboard
• WiFi and BlueTooth onboard
• 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Port

Development

Let's get start to develop on BPI-M2P, see amazing things happen.

Basic Development

Prepare to develop

 1.Prepare 8G/above TF card, USB-Serial interface, PC with Ubuntu System

 2.Using your USB-Serial Connect debug console on M2P

Advanced Development

Bluetooth

• Use bluetoothctl tool to operate BT
• Execute "bluetoothctl"
• If you don't know how to use bluetoothctl, type help, you will see more commands
• Execute these commands:

Clear boot

• git clone https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-files/tree/master/SD/100MB
• bpi-bootsel BPI-cleanboot-8k.img.gz /dev/sdX

Camara function

We use HDF5640 camara.

Guvcview

• Use your UI interface to operate camara
• Applications -> Sound & Video -> guvcview

• We also have built-in command in /usr/local/bin to test camara
• test_ov5640_image_mode.sh
• cameratest.sh

IR function

• Execute getevent
• Use your IR device to send information to M2P

WringPi

• GitHub: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-WiringPi2.git
• We also have built-in test command in /usr/local/bin
• Execute bpi_test_lcd1602
• RGB 1602 LCD

• Execute bpi_test_52pi
• 0.96 Inch OLED Display

• 8x8 RGB LED Martix

Reference Link

http://www.banana-pi.org/m2plus.html

http://forum.banana-pi.org/