Posts made by Kevin Sidwar

Because it's just OpenWRT I think @Luciano-S is right and feel like other people have successfully used a USB to UART adapter.

As another alternative I've found that the Adafruit Pi Cobbler Breakout fits onto the expansion board and allows you to do a very makeshift breakout to a breadboard. It's actually 4 pins short and doesn't break out the outer 4 pins from the expansion dock but those are all duplicated by other pins that are broken out.

More expensive than some of the other ideas here but if you have some laying around from your Raspberry Pi days like me it works in a pinch.

@Lazar-Demin For the button it was probably mentioned the very first time I logged in but until you mentioned it here I wasn't aware that the context was different for every page which is helpful. I thought it was just the one version the first time you logged in. Not sure how to call it out but something to help users know that it's different for every page.

@Lazar-Demin That's definitely the hardest part about making videos for Omega. It's a rapidly moving target. I think I'll just start saying "This doesn't work right now but by the time you see this video it will likely be fixed." :slight_smile:

For those that like video instructions I made a YouTube vid covering how to connect a device to the cloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjXfLczzjE

@Lazar-Demin For anyone that comes along this post later I just want to clarify that the TX and RX for the serial diagram are wrong here. They are correct on the official pinout page.

@Kit-Bishop Sorry for the radio silence. I just realized tonight that my preferences were set up to NOT email me when mentioned or watching a post (fixed now). I had actually created a Git repo that I was going to transfer over to you but I see that you created one under your account. Awesome work! And sorry again for going silent on this thread.

@Brian-Piersel No problem. Glad it helped.

Hey @Kit-Bishop , I really appreciate that. Yes, I'd prefer to access the GPIO pins on the level that you do in your C++ code. I've never written a node C extension before but it's very well documented so I'd like to take your code and build the wrapper layer around it. I think it would be amazing. I'm not sure when I'll have time to work on it but if I have any questions about your code I'll definitely reach out and certainly give you full credit in the project for the C code. Thanks again.

I haven't Just the version that you refer to. From the sound of it the onion team is working on it though. Hopefully not much longer.

I built a very simple Node.js GPIO wrapper that works on the older, supported version of node that runs on the Omega. It's a work in progress but the basics are there and documented. Currently it uses Sysfs but I'd like to eventually write a C extension for it. I would love feedback if anybody gives it a try.

https://github.com/sidwarkd/omega_js

I hadn't seen that library before so I wrote one as well. Would love feedback on it if you end up giving it a try.

https://github.com/sidwarkd/omega_js

@Lazar-Demin I'm happy to help in any way possible. I was just going to set up a Github repo for @Kit-Bishop 's stuff so changes could be pushed there for easy access but if you'd like I can put together a pull request that brings his code in. @Lazar-Demin if you want to comment on Kit's questions about what the amalgamation would look like and what you're thinking I can do the PR. Just let me know.

@Kit-Bishop Hey Kit, this is awesome work. Could I help get this posted to Github so people could access it that way? If you're not interested in having it under your account (or if you don't have an account and don't want to create one) I'd be happy to put it in mine and give full attribution to you. Thanks again for creating this.

Kevin