Introduction

Overview: BPI-M2U respbian linux

Banana Pi BPI-M2 Ultra is a quad-core mini single board computer built with Allwinner R40 SoC. It features 2GB of RAM and 8GB eMMC. It also has onboard WiFi and BT. On the ports side, the BPI-M2 Ultra has 2 USB A 2.0 ports, 1 USB OTG port, 1 HDMI port, 1 audio jack, a DC power port, and last but not least, a SATA port..

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BPI-M2U

Key Features

Quad Core ARM Cortex A7 CPU R40
2GB DDR3 SDRAM
8 GB eMMC storage
WiFi (AP6212) & Bluetooth onboard
SATA Interface

Development

Let's get start to develop on BPI-M2U, 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 M2U

 1.You could download latest image from our forum
 * Here is the example forum thread link:

 2.Install bpi-tools on your system
 * 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 M2U, and press power button setup M2U.

Advanced Development

SATA

OTG

LCD 5"

LCD 7"

Touch screen

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 M2U

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 M2U

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

FAQ

Reference Link

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

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

Getting Start with M2U

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