Posts made by Lachlan Peter

Any update on a low power mode for the omega2 series?

I have been working with SAMA5 giantboard (atmel/debian/WIN1500 wifi) which is suppose to have a low power mode, but I cant get the wifi to power down so i cant get below 55mA in sleep mode. I have a Toradex iMX6UUL Wifi module which works fine (< 1ma in sleep) but this is a very large board and requires an SSID 200 pin connector.

Anyone had any luck with any other Linux/wifi boards that can go into sleep mode. I bought a lot of Omegas and simply power them down and power them up but that takes over 2 minutes

I am looking for a Linux board that can go into sleep at < 1mA (like the giantboard) but with the ability to turn wifi on and off (or low power mode) a well(the wifi is used as an AP).

I have successfully used SAML21 processor with WIN1500 wifi but unfortunately this does not support Linux and i need to provide w Web Server and USB camera interface.

Any ideas ? Maybe the ESP based boards which are really cheap? any ideas?

Could you please share details of the repository where you found the gdbserver package?

Thanks

The Omega2S would be a great device and much more reliable in a product as it has built in eMMC instead of SD card and does away with pin/socket connection thus removing all mechanical connections. It is very easy to build the omega2s into a PCB with a project. One example is to make a board with a USB hub chip than can increase the interface capabilities and a I2C ADC converter, plus Zigbee or LoRa radio for communications (all SMT products).
However, the Omega2S only comes in volumes of 250.
Therefore it is difficult to prototype with, and you also need production volumes of greater than 250 which is a bit large for organizations developing products with potential markets but not guaranteed markets.

I am using Omega1 and have installed the latest operating system and done a factory reset (so there are no additional files of mine on the device), but I have no available space in the file system.

using $ df -h I get
/dev/root Size: 7.5M Used:7.5M Used: 100% Mounted on: /rom
/dev/mtdblock3 Size: 7.5M Used:7.3M Used: 100% Mounted on:/overlay

If i try $ opkg install packagex
I get the error: only have 0kb available space on filesystem /overlay Cannot install package

Any ideas how this problem can be fixed?
Thanks

I have downloaded python-light and tried running programs using import "time" and import "random" modules. Using functions in these modules fail because they both rely on import "location" which, according to python does not exist.

I am using omega1. I am restricted to python-light as standard python is too large to fit on the device.

Can anyone advise how I can fix this problem, or how I can provide the "location" module into python-light ?

Thanks