Getting Started with M2M

Introduction

BPI-M2M

Overview: BPI-M2M ubuntu linux

  Banana Pi M2M is another ARM SoC powered development board that offers great computing performance in an ultra portable form factor. It is a 51mm square with Allwinner A33 Quad-core A7 SoC and 512MB DDR3 RAM. 

• Read more about : Banana Pi BPI-M2M

Key Features

• Quad Core ARM Cortex A7 CPU. R16
• 512MB DDR3 SDRAM
• WiFi (AP6212) & Bluetooth onboard

Development

Basic Development

Prepare to develop

 * Prepare 8G/above TF card, USB-Serial interface, PC with Ubuntu System
 * Using your USB-Serial Connect debug console on M2M
 
   

Install Bpi tools

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

Load your first Linux image on SD card

• you could download image from here: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-m2m-r16-new-image-release-ubuntu-16-04-2018-08-25/6596
• after download image, copy it to your ubuntu PC
• plug your sd card to your ubuntu PC, and Execute "fdisk -l" to check the SD card drive letter
• Execute "bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sd<drive letter>"

• Ex: my sd card is recognised as /dev/sdf
• I can use "bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sdf" to install image on my SD card.

Compile code

• git clone https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-M2M-bsp.git

After download code, execute "./build.sh" to compile it.

• ./build.sh

Update your image

Update rootfs & kernal

After we succeed to the code, Bootloader, kernel, rootfs will be generated in "SD" directory, then how to update the image?

• cd SD/bpi-m2m

Plug in your SD card to Ubuntu PC, then execute "fdisk -l" to check which /dev/sdX were generated by system

• bpi-update -c bpi-m2m.conf -d /dev/sde

Update boot

• cd 100MB

Execute "df -l" to check which /dev/sdX is "BPI-BOOT"

• df -l

• bpi-bootsel BPI-M2M-LCD7-8k.img.gz /dev/sd1

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

2. Use UI interface to setup WiFi Client

NAS Application

1. Usb hub + sata to usb

• HDD is supported

• SSD is supported

Camara function

We use HDF5640 camara.

Guvcview

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

Shell

• We also have built-in command in /usr/local/bin to test camara
• "./test_ov5640_image_mode.sh" to test picture taking function
• "./cameratest.sh" to test video recording function

BPI-Tools

Install Bpi-tools

• Execute "curl -sL https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/bpi-tools/raw/master/bpi-tools | sudo -E bash - "

Update Bpi-tools

• Execute "bpi-tools"

RPi.GPIO

Install RPi.GPIO

• Execute "git clone https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/RPi.GPIO"
• after clone the repo, cd RPi.GPIO
• Execute "sudo apt-get update"
• Execute "sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev"
• Execute "sudo python setup.py install" or "sudo python3 setup.py install" to install the module

Using RPi.GPIO

• cd /usr/local/bin
• Execute "./bpi_test_g40.py" to test RPi.GPIO

WiringPi

• GitHub: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-WiringPi2.git
• We also have built-in test command in "/usr/local/bin"

How to Update WiringPi

• Execute "bpi-update -c pkglist.conf"

• Execute "bpi-update -c bpi-pkg-bpi-wiringpi.conf"

RGB 1602 LCD

• Execute "/usr/local/bin/bpi_test_lcd1602.sh"

0.96 Inch OLED Display

• Execute "/usr/local/bin/bpi_test_52pi.sh"

8x8 RGB LED Martix

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

• Execute "/usr/local/bin/bpi_test_gpio40.sh"