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 & kernel

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

Make your own image

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

2. Use UI interface to setup WiFi Client

StartX

apt-get install xorg
apt-get install xserver-xorg
apt-get install xinit

https://askubuntu.com/questions/518454/what-does-startx-command-do

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"

Getting Started with M2M

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