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So I was experimenting with my shutdown procedure and power-down and power-off are pretty useless in that regard in so much as they don't poweroff and halt the CPU but instead reboot it.

However, I have discovered if I used Linux's magic sysrq interface to send the 'Power off immediately' command. It does just that. The led goes out and the dock is dead until power is reset.

Test it yourself. Just remember that it is immediate power off so no syncing of any kind will happen. You will have to manually sync and unmount disks yourself.

echo "o" >/proc/sysrq-trigger

Still handy to have at the end of a shutdown script though.

@peter-garner-0

Spam is on the increase via forums world wide it seems. But it is a case of active moderation and proper security practices. Sign ups need to be verified yes, but also activity needs to be monitors. Usually discourse handles it pretty well but in practice it requires a moderator to really fine grain things.

I am guessing the onion boys have too much else to do but looking after a community forum should really be left up to the community. A known good contributor and regular to the forums can be deputised to that end and at least fill in the gaps when the admins are away. Time zones are a pain regardless of the industry you are in so might be good to get multiple candidates from different areas of the world to help out.

Just a thought..

Hey Guys.. Upgraded to :

Ω-ware: 0.0.6 b275

but I am still getting the same errors.

opkg install tinc
Installing tinc (1.0.26-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/tinc_1.0.26-1_ar71xx.ipk.
Collected errors:

• satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for tinc:
• kernel (= 3.18.20-1-7bed08fa9c06eb8089e82c200340ec66) *
• opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package tinc.

How close are we to sorting this out?

Thanks.

So I have just received my new Oboo Clock and wondering when we are going to open up a forum to discuss things about it. My main gripe atm is where is the developer access to it. SSH is not enabled by default and not sure what is the correct way to enable it.

Is there and SDK for the cards working with the bluetooth app etc..

Lots of questions come to mind.

Thanks.

Need I say more?

Expired Certificate

Hint: Use Letsencrypt.

@Kit-Bishop

Yeah.. I figured it was being put to the back burner but really this is starting to get very frustrating. Standard packages like tinc are available in OpenWRT and so it really should be relatively trivial to compile against the 'Onion' version of the OpenWRT tree. Hell even just putting that source up as a git hub would be enough for people to be able to build packages against the Onion which fit seamlessly into opkg.

Is there a list of what 'customisations' Onion has done to OpenWRT so maybe we can patch an official build with and build from there?

Been asking this for months now guys. Still cannot install tinc because of a mismatch between the repo modules and the running kernel. I am seriously thinking of compiling it all from scratch but am hoping I won't need to do that. Can we use a working repo from onion so we can build modules against the current kernel.

Feeling forgotten here guys

@Boken-Lin

Yeah I figured as much.. but until then can only play around with the Omega and not do any real work with it Still a good update though and very happy to see such active development. Kudos guys. Doing a great job!

Very nice work! Thank you very much. I am so stupid not realising that you needed a 0 to turn it on. Doh! Cheers!

@Chris-Ouellette

I could do with more documentation as well. I have no idea how to play audio from the command line on the Oboo clock. mpg123 is there and everything but there are no audio devices present. I have a sneaking feeling you need to use the mosquitto framework to use the audio but that is not terrible well documented and so not sure if I can do that from the command line easily.

So any central repository for docs would be helpful and know methods to access functions.

@Boken-Lin said:

@Chris-Ward The Onion repo currently has only part of the packages offered by the default OpenWRT repo. For stuff that's not on our repo, opkg still uses the default OpenWRT one. We are still in the process of compiling more packages over to our own repo.

Ahh well that explains that. Well if you can see your way to making tinc a priority that would be a great help. It is the only thing that is really stopping me using the Omega in a real world scenario. I need to tie it into it's own vpn because I want to put it on the same network at other smart sensors and stuff I use.

But like I say the rest of the work is fantastic and I cannot believe how clear and crisp the OLED display is. I positively squealed with delight when I saw my own images scrolling across the display

@Douglas-Kryder

Well the main issue I have with onion builds is the keep slipping behind the LEDE tree and so you end up with mismatched kernels constantly meaning rolling in driver changes is next to impossible unless you are building the firmware yourself, which brings up back to the point about reproducible builds because if we cannot build what onion builds then how can we update it to make custom builds?

In some respects I really wish Onion would just decide to track LEDE completely and upstream any custom changes that need to be made for a particular devices. As it stands now though I am terrified to do any sort of update on my omegas because there is a high probability it will break something. Even just being able to upgrade the kernel as a package would go a long way to making building for a target easier.

Amen to that.

If Debian are pushing to 100% reproducible builds I think LEDE should where it can and save some binary blobs which can be checksummed should have everything easily checked.

Sadly although the Kmod is in LEDE repos the kernel version is WAY ahead of the onion one now.

opkg install kmod-fs-f2fs
Installing kmod-fs-f2fs (4.9.34-1) to root...
Downloading https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7688/packages/kmod-fs-f2fs_4.9.34-1_mipsel_24kc.ipk
Collected errors:

• satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-fs-f2fs:

• kernel (= 4.9.34-1-03997cbe2f6251de7784529eabe01f20) * 	kernel (= 4.9.34-1-03997cbe2f6251de7784529eabe01f20) * 
  

• opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-fs-f2fs.

cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.4.46 (root@2272a3272872) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LEDE GCC 5.4.0 r3273-a0888ec) ) #0 Thu Feb 2 23:46:03 2017

So once again the not tracking of the LEDE repos leads to a version mismatch making it impossible to install kernel modules.

Unless the b163 build is more up to date, maybe I should just manually flash the LEDE build image from

https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7688/

Either way I want to be able to use f2fs because it is the 3rd time an SDcard with ext4 has started fritzing out on me.

Thoughts?

See this topic for the details.

You used (( )) on the link. Only need [](). Please edit for posterity.

Thanks.

I gave up on my power dock in the end, there is something not right with it I am sure. In fact I had cause to plug it on just to supply 5V to an audio amp I was testing (lots of ambient noise when plugging into the Omega) and it was fine until I turned the volume up to more than 50% then it would play a sound file but in the middle reset the power and restart. This is with a 2.5A USB supply. This confirmed my suspicion that the Power dock had a problem supplying power correctly. Which explains why it would not power up the Omega by just plugging usb power into it. It would charge the battery but you had to toggle the power switch to get it to supply power to the Omega.

All in all I think the Power Dock has some design/build issues and I opted for another solution which I have to say is much nicer in the end.

@Lazar-Demin said:

Ok so the codename contest is officially over!

The Ando codename is ... drumroll

In honour of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles!

Well I can't say I would ever have guessed that but then again if he is responsible for the creation of the Pot Noodle

then he has a lot to answer for