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

Load your first image on M2P

 1.You could download latest image from our forum
 * Here is the example forum thread link: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-m2p-new-image-release-ubuntu-16-04-v1-1/5719

 2.Install bpi-tools on your Ubuntu
 * apt-get install pv
 * curl -sL https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/bpi-tools/raw/master/bpi-tools | sudo -E bash
 

 3.After you download the image, insert your TF card into your Ubuntu
 * Execute "bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sdx" to install image on your TF card.

 4.After step 3, then you can insert your TF card into M2P, and press power button setup M2P.

Advanced Development

GMAC

• Use iperf3 to test gmac

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:

WiFi on M2P

WiFi Client

You have two ways to setup WiFi Client

1. Use commands to setup WiFi client

• ip link set wlan0 up
• iw dev wlan0 scan | grep SSID
• vim /etc/wpasupplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
• network={ ssid="ssid" psk="password" priority=1 }
• wpa_supplicant -B -dd -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
• dhclient wlan0

2. Use UI interface to setup WiFi Client

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

RGB 1602 LCD

• Execute bpi_test_lcd1602

0.96 Inch OLED Display

• Execute bpi_test_52pi

8x8 RGB LED Martix

• Firstly you need a GPIO Extend Board for 8x8 LED Martix

• Execute bpi_test_gpio40

Reference Link

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

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