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Chris McCaslin

I currently use my onion Omega 2+ for a nas. With it wired directly into my Netgear s8000 switch. Into a cat8 cable at 1000Mbp/s .. but with the current Ethernet modual I'm maxxed at 100Mbp/s...

Any plans on releasing a gig card?

Trying to stay consistent with onion. And not switch to something like a pi 4 as it has onboard gig.

#loyalOnionFan #gimemoahpowah

Chris McCaslin

How would one run .Net core apps via omega 2+ ?

Chris McCaslin

I use my Current Onion Omega as a nas with a usb dock, Right now I have 2 1tb drives and a 256 gb drive that holds the os. I use it just like a normal nas. it's awesome 1tb is for backup and is encrypted and another is just for my plex server.

Chris McCaslin

Well, I have seen the Omega 2 and the Omega 2 plus I will be purchasing both. I'm soo happy you added the wifi antenna breakout!
I just wanted to say that I am one happy customer.. Unless for some weird reason I get v2 and v2+ with testing firmware... xD

That and that hologram module sounds like one that needs to be purchased! LOVED the video of the ControlEverything module at 0:42

Chris McCaslin

@Guest yeah, I know I have been waiting to continue one of my projects on this answer alone...

Chris McCaslin

PWM is very interesting to me because how it reminds me of AC.

Chris McCaslin

Using php PWM wrapper for use with Servo PWM Module

Q: How to use the wrapper?

Answer:

<?php
 require 'PWM.php';
 $pwm = new PWM();
 $pwm->SetChan('all'); //set the channels
 /* The CHANNEL can be: 0 - 15 to control an individual channel
    The CHANNEL can be: all to control all channels at once
    
   Optional parameters: frequency If not specified, default of 50 Hz is used
   Frequency range is 24 Hz to 1526 Hz
   Adds a delay in the PWM signal, can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100, 0% delay by default
 */
 $data = $pwm->SetDuty(1.25); // sets duty_cycle 1.25 on all channel's
 echo explode(':',$data[1])[1]; // Parse just the responce
 
 ?>

Q: Where do I get it?

Answer: Right here!

The Gist Link

<?php
/**
* @ Author: Chris McCaslin
* @ Date: 5/25/2016
* @ Disc: Hardware pwm wrapper!
*/
  class PWM
  {
    private $channel;
    private $duty_cycle;
    private $frequency;
    private $delay;
    
    // Need to intilize pwm
    function __constructor()
    {
      $this->consoleCmd("ubus call i2c_exp pwm-exp '{\"command\":\"init\"}'");
    }
    // The SetPeriod function https://github.com/OnionIoT/i2c-exp-driver#set-period-command
    public function SetPeriod($pulse, $period)
    {
      return $this->ConsoleCmd("ubus call i2c_exp pwm-exp '{\"command\":\"set-period\", \"params\":{\"channel\":$this->channel, \"pulse\":$pulse, \"periods\":$period}}'");
    }
    
    public function SetChan($chn)
    {
      $this->channel = $chn;
    }
    // The SetDuty Command https://github.com/OnionIoT/i2c-exp-driver#set-command
    public function SetDuty($dtyCycl)
    {
      if($dtyCycl < 0.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      elseif ($dtyCycl >100.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      else
      {
        $this->duty_cycle = (float)$dtyCycl;
      }
      return $this->ConsoleCmd("ubus call i2c_exp pwm-exp '{\"command\":\"set\", \"params\":{\"channel\":\"$this->channel\",\"duty\":\"$this->duty_cycle\"} }'");
    }
    // The SetFreq Command Optional parameter
    public function SetFreq($dtyCycl, $freq)
    {
      if($dtyCycl < 0.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      elseif ($dtyCycl >100.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      else
      {
        $this->duty_cycle = (float)$dtyCycl;
      }
      if($freq < 24)
      {
        return "Frequency range is 24 Hz to 1526 Hz";
      }
      else if($freq > 1526)
      {
        return "Frequency range is 24 Hz to 1526 Hz";
      }
      else
      {
        $this->frequency = $freq;
      }
      return $this->ConsoleCmd("ubus call i2c_exp pwm-exp '{\"command\":\"set\", \"params\":{\"channel\":\"$this->channel\", \"duty\":\"$this->duty_cycle\", \"frequency\":\"$this->frequency\"} }'");
    }
    // The SetDelay Command Optional parameter
    public function SetDelay($dtyCycl, $freq, $delay)
    {
      if($dtyCycl < 0.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      elseif ($dtyCycl >100.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      else
      {
        $this->duty_cycle = (float)$dtyCycl;
      }
      if($freq < 24)
      {
        return "Frequency range is 24 Hz to 1526 Hz";
      }
      else if($freq > 1526)
      {
        return "Frequency range is 24 Hz to 1526 Hz";
      }
      else
      {
        $this->frequency = $freq;
      }
      if($delay < 0.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      elseif ($delay >100.0000)
      {
        return "The DUTY CYCLE can be an integer or floating point number between 0 and 100";
      }
      else
      {
        $this->delay = (float)$delay;
      }
      return $this->ConsoleCmd("ubus call i2c_exp pwm-exp '{\"command\":\"set\", \"params\":{\"channel\":\"$this->channel\", \"duty\":\"$this->duty_cycle\", \"frequency\":\"$this->frequency,  \"delay\":\"$this->delay\"} }'");
    }
    // The Sleep Command https://github.com/OnionIoT/i2c-exp-driver#sleep-command
    public function Sleep()
    {
      return $this->ConsoleCmd("ubus call i2c_exp pwm-exp '{\"command\":\"sleep\"}'");
    }
    // A method so we can interface with console easy.
    private function ConsoleCmd($cmdToSend)
    {
      exec("$cmdToSend 2>&1", $output);
      return $output;
    }
  }
 ?>

the pull Request

Chris McCaslin

I'm looking to use a omega as a AIO home router / WIFI I have Comcast so I can do that very Easly ( but would like to hack in my two antennas that come out of my existing router into the omega for added strength / range) but that still leaves me using a stupid modem that plugins via coax to add that to comcast I had to call give the serial number and they did the rest. It has to have DOCSIS 2.0 + but since 3.1 is out that would be cool.

Would love to buy the two modules

dsl cable module (coax + doxsis 3.0+)
Wifi antennas module (lets you add 1- 4 antennas )

that would be cool please do.@administrators @Global-Moderators

Chris McCaslin

Will this work for omega can any one confirm?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/321773988769?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

I would really love to get ir cams going.

Chris McCaslin

I am trying to work on my home security system with a few omegas But I am having a hard time looking for ir usb cams that are compatible with the webcam app. Before buying anymore I thought I should ask the community. Im am currently looking at

http://amzn.com/B01ER2SMHY

but I'm unsure If I can get it to work. Any thoughts / recommendations?

Chris McCaslin

@Luciano-S. Would you know what version of the kernel would recognize the cam? Thanks for the info, I'm newer to Linux.

Chris McCaslin

@Damien said:

I have force the most recent stable firmware installation.

Each time i plug the USB stick, it displays :

root@Omega-2561:/dev# [  206.510000] wlan0: authenticate with 24:ec:99:02:98:d7
[  206.530000] wlan0: send auth to 24:ec:99:02:98:d7 (try 1/3)
[  206.540000] wlan0: authenticated
[  206.550000] wlan0: associate with 24:ec:99:02:98:d7 (try 1/3)
[  206.550000] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 24:ec:99:02:98:d7 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=2)
[  206.560000] wlan0: associated

It seems that it modifies the wlan port !!

Try ls ls /dev/

Chris McCaslin

I figured as much but had no idea what driver I would have to install for this cam.

Chris McCaslin

So I bought this camera Fosmon USB 6 LED 12.0 Megapixel USB PC Webcam Web Camera + Night Vision

And because it was cheap I wanted to make sure it had enough light for 100' so I also got this CMVision IR56 - 56 LED Indoor/Outdoor Long Range 100ft IR Illuminator

I shut down the webcam server unhooked my Logitech camera wich works and plugged in the new camera booted up and try to start the stream using the webcam app. No dice so I thought lets do it by cmd

So I tried this

mjpg_streamer -i "/usr/lib/input_uvc.s -d /dev/video0" -o "output_http.so -p 8090"

But I get this

root@Webcam Server:~# mjpg_streamer -i "/usr/lib/input_uvc.s -d /dev/video0" -o 
"output_http.so -p 8090"
MJPG Streamer Version: svn rev: Unversioned directory
ERROR: could not find input plugin
       Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
       # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
       dlopen: File not found
root@Webcam Server:~#

But when I check by doing
ls /usr/lib
The input file is in there so why can I not get this working?

Chris McCaslin

Well my surveillance webcam was giving me issues because of the auto focusing they I found uvcdynctrl wich is awsome btww so I installed it and started writing a php wrapper for it.

https://gist.github.com/Immortal-/f6c9f3c1850a8876803cd6f1d6089bf8