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I put together a quick demo of using the Onion Omega to control a Philips Hue light that I have at my office.

Just thought I would share in case anyone was interested in how to do this.

https://youtu.be/YE_g90-dk6Q

https://gist.github.com/youngsoul/c38287599b0e2fd743f2

Enjoy

I created a video on how I setup the Omega to install and run Bottle, a python web framework.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCcIlCJOx4

There is another post in the forums, 'Python web framework' which shows you how to use python3. This particular setup video uses python2.

Here is the summary of steps:

vi /etc/opkg.conf

— delete line ‘option check_signature 1'

opkg update
mkdir -p /home/bottle
cd /home/bottle
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/defnull/bottle/raw/master/bottle.py
opkg install python-light
opkg install python-email
opkg install python-codecs
opkg install python-logging
opkg install python-openssl

vi bottle_test.py

paste:

from bottle import route, run

@route('/hello/<username>')
def hello(username):
    return "Hello {0}.  Welcome to the Omega World!".format(username)

run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080, debug=True)

to run:

python bottle_test.py

I too have put together a few videos on python programming for the Omega just incase you find them helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQELgysBgQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCcIlCJOx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDDq9D50wGo

I also wrote a simple, simple wrapper for the gpio which was inspired by Omega user 'Dan L'.

https://github.com/youngsoul/OmegaGPIO

@Lorcan-Adrain Thanks very much - that is my video. I am hoping to add more in the next few weeks. Thanks again for the shout out.

In the 2-Bullet Tuesday emails, you mention: "

P.S. -- Our Omega2 Indiegogo campaign will be ending in the near future! Don't miss your chance to get the Omega2 for just $5!"

Will the Omega2 be generally available after the campaign?

It is not clear to me if you are saying you can only get it for $5 during the campaign but will be available later for a higher price, or if you are telling me that after the campaign you wont be able to get one for any price.

I am curious so I know whether to consider the Omega2 platform for further development.

Thanks for any clarification you can provide.

I have seen this as well - not just on that particular package. I can't explain why - which means I cannot guarantee my suggestion will work for you. But here is what I have done.

I am assuming you are running the 0.0.4 version of the firmware.

1. vi /etc/opkg.conf
   remove the last line because there is an issue with checking the signatures.

2. opkg update

3. then try to get that package again.

I hope that works for you.

I tried this today. My Omega was running at my house, and I brought it into work to see if I could see the Omega wifi network. It does show up for me, so I'm not sure what is going on there.

As for factory reset - I do not know a hardware way to do this, but if you have a terminal program ( if you are on a Mac I suggest Serial ), and connect via a USB cable, then you can type in the command:

factory-reset -f

Also if you connect via a terminal you can setup wifi that way, and it is very easy.

I put together this video - I hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3H25qRR7Lo

@Boken-Lin I added another video showing the setup via a terminal application instead of the console app. You can find that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3H25qRR7Lo

@Fred-Blais PyCharm does have a free community version, of course you will still need to (s)ftp the files to the Omega outside of PyCharm. As for over-kill, I think this depends upon your application and whether you can or want to write and debug with a modern IDE or just use print statement.

While I have not tried it yet, PyCharm does allow for remote debugging of applications which can very powerful. Imagine running your app on the Omega, but debugging on your Mac/PC. It also lets you setup a Remote Python Interpreter - which again I have not tried. These are likely professional features which does have a license fee. $89/ 1st year, $71 2nd year, $53 after that. And really - if you are a professional making your living writing software these are amazing tools for that price, IMHO.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Jetbrains in anyway. I'm just a super happy customer of their products.

Personally - I like PyCharm to do this. I created a video which shows you how to develop with PyCharm and deploy to the Onion Omega.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQELgysBgQs

The deployment feature is only available in the professional edition - but I feel that their tools are so reasonably priced for the feature set they provide, as a professional, it is worth the money.

This is my preferred workflow and so far it has worked great. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that you are using a far less powerful version of python so you might have to deploy and test to make sure the packages are available to you on the Omega.

I also believe PyCharm can use a remote environment on the Omega so you can be sure it works on the deployed platform - however - this is something I have not tried yet.