Blimey, for a device that is supposed to be THE GREATEST IOT DEVICE EVER, what crap!
I have discovered that you can use the generic I2C OLED Displays BUT!
So there is no point paying $15 for the OLED Expansion when you can get the displays for $3
Problems...
Unable to set screen orientation and as with the official board the text is tiny and cant be made bigger
Even a basic Arduino board can do better.
Blimey, for a device that is supposed to be THE GREATEST IOT DEVICE EVER, what crap!
I have discovered that you can use the generic I2C OLED Displays BUT!
So there is no point paying $15 for the OLED Expansion when you can get the displays for $3
Problems...
Unable to set screen orientation and as with the official board the text is tiny and cant be made bigger
Even a basic Arduino board can do better.
After a whole day trying my solution for the following ERROR
failed to switch to bootloader (invalid address?): No such device or address
This occurred via the Arduino IDE and using the Onion Command Line
My hardware is Original Onion Omega + Original Arduino Dock
(Any communication with Onion results in "We suggest you upgrade to Onion2")
Anyway I eventually found a very concise instructions @ [https://onioniot.github.io/wiki/Tutorials/Arduino-Dock/Initial-Setup](link url)
It would appear that it must be configured by burning a new bootloader the very first time.
The second method worked for me i.e. Using the Omega + Expansion Dock with the Arduino Dock ICSP Header
And after that I was able to use the Arduino IDE to program the Arduino Dock.
Now the question is can I communicate via the Onion and the Arduino Dock i.e can a program on the Onion use the Arduino I/O Pins?
And can the two communicate via Serial?
This topic should not be marked as SOLVED as none of the suggestions worked for me.
After a whole day trying my solution for the following ERROR
failed to switch to bootloader (invalid address?): No such device or address
This occurred via the Arduino IDE and using the Onion Command Line
My hardware is Original Onion Omega + Original Arduino Dock
(Any communication with Onion results in "We suggest you upgrade to Onion2")
Anyway I eventually found a very concise instructions @ [https://onioniot.github.io/wiki/Tutorials/Arduino-Dock/Initial-Setup](link url)
It would appear that it must be configured by burning a new bootloader the very first time.
The second method worked for me i.e. Using the Omega + Expansion Dock with the Arduino Dock ICSP Header
And after that I was able to use the Arduino IDE to program the Arduino Dock.
Now the question is can I communicate via the Onion and the Arduino Dock i.e can a program on the Onion use the Arduino I/O Pins?
And can the two communicate via Serial?
Ok so I found how to check memory, the command to check memory is df
And to use USB memory as rootfs instructions @ https://github.com/OnionIoT/wiki/blob/master/Tutorials/Using-USB-Storage-as-Rootfs.md
However there is not enough memory onboard to complete this command
tar -C /tmp/cproot -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt/sda1 -xf -
It stops before complete saying out of memory.
There are slightly different instructions here for the Omega2, will that work on the Omega
Very disappointed with the product, Onion solution is to buy the Omega2
Are they suggesting the first gen omega is useless.
Hum so I did a factory reset, installed python, pip and then attempted to add the soundcloud library but it says memory full.
The soundcloud library is only about 26K as far as I can tell.
Since its possible to install PHP I'm very surprised
How do I check memory usage?
Also how do i get more memory?
I have a first gen Omega not Omega2
SO I am planning to use my Omega to connect to the soundcloud API to play music.
For this I will need python for the API script and PIP to install the soundcloud library into python.
My questions are, is it possible to install pip and does the soundcloud library work on the omega.
Note i have an original omega not omega2
@ccs-hello
How is this not possible when I have a 20 year old pcDuino where it is...
So a device made 10 years later is a downgrade from 20 year old tech?
The Omega was marketed as the device of devices!
So I have an original omega not omega2 and was attempting to do the wonderful firmware upgrade I was sent an email about but have tried both from the console and the command line using the usb port on the expansion dock and neither work.
Via the console it said updating firmware, please wait, and I did forever, nothing happened, it didn't even download, and via the USB after about 5 min it reported a internet issue.
It was connected to my Wi-Fi and this was confirmed as my PC was connected directly to the Onion and browsing the web was possible, also the console status confirmed bytes sent and received.
Either the update service was down or its unreachable for some reason or the update only applies to Omega2?
Can anyone advise?
Hi again @Broken-Lin
Ok I made some progress...
I installed KUbuntu on another computer.
I have followed steps 1 and 2 for setting up the Cross Compile Platform and all is good.
I now have the following prompt..
/openwrt t$
I am now at Step 3: Update Feeds but unsure what to do?
I typed cd feeds to go to the feeds directory but it says no such file or directory.
Thanks in advance
Brian