Posts made by Costas Costas

I guess it was left off to achieve the $5 price tag.

@Don-DeGregori you'll be pleased to know that the Raspberry Pi Foundation have added WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1 to their Zero. It's their 5th birthday today and the headline price for the Zero W is $10.
Much more stock available this time around and I managed to pick up 3 quite easily from "different" suppliers.

Great little product, plug and play with awesome support. Roll on the next 11 million out of the door.

@Manuel-Godinez

In the cron aren't you missing the python call?
So change to something like this, depending where test2.py is located

12 6 * * * python /test2.py > /tmp/test.log 2>&1

@Marcel-Neculae when did 3D printers start printing electrical components?

If you price up the parts, in bulk, you will see that docks can be made available for a nominal sum.

@Marcel-Neculae there's a clue in the name of the business.

So for 10+ units the LinkIt is $12.50 compared with the 2+ at $9.00.

I think for many basic users the additional cost of the LinkIt is well worth it for the plug and play features like USB host and power together with regular pin spacing.

@Zheng-Han that's good news. Roughly how long will it be before crowdfunding is finished?

@Pierre-Rossinès said in [resolved] Help, My Omega2 plus can't start successfully:

@ccs-hello
The worst part is that sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

That's the problem I have with my 2+'s wired up to AMS1117's. They will normally run for 24 to 36 hours and then fail. Don't know if they get too hot, run out of memory or receive a power spike. When I reboot them sometimes they boot up and sometimes they don't. If they don't bootup after a few tries I leave them for perhaps 30 to 60 minutes and generally they do bootup. Bit of a mystery.

Still waiting for someone to provide a reliable power source for these Omega's on a breadboard dock at a reasonable price. Like the one's Onion gave away for orders over $64.

Surely someone in the Far East can just copy the design or Onion could sell them at a reasonable price. Obviously not enough Omega users around or they would be readily available by now. @onion are you planning to sell the breadboard docks?

@HAJIME-SUZUKI almost all USB2TTL adaptors are seriously low on power and only able to send and receive data, not actually power a device, especially to the narrow tolerances required by an Omega.

Simple answer is change the router password.

@György-Farkas well spotted.

@Chris-Stratton so Onion just need to tidy that up and compile as power-down, right?

@WereCatf I think you are missing the point, again.

If router manufacturers had added SD card's they would have a "power down" routine, ergo Onion to provide the same.

@WereCatf sorry I thought the Omega was a portable computer from the details on the Kickstarter campaign.

Most routers don't have SD cards attached, although some do have USB data ports.

Onion should at least write a routine to make it as safe as possible to "pull the plug" with SD cards and USB's in situ.

You would think powering down would be useful with a small portable device like an Omega.

@David-Rugh the dates will give you a clue.

@Travis-Hyyppa could you please provide a few basic steps on compiling your code including any opkg packages required that are not included in the firmware as standard?

@Athar-Mian said in USB connection without a dock:

@Ken-Conrad

Where is the Omega2 micro USB socket? Is it directly on the Omega2 itself, since otherwise it defeats the purpose? And is it OTG too?

Top of my list for Omega 3 if we ever get that far.

When will something like this be available at a sensible price?

I have a couple of 2+'s that are using AMS1117's but the Omega's are very fussy about the power feed they receive. Very small margin of error, use a decent PSU to feed the AMS1117's. I don't use caps.