Quick update regarding BeagleBone Blue documentation

[Jason Kridner]

I'm still not making that much headway in the Blue documentation at the moment, but I figure I can at least make an FAQ to help some new users.

https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-blue/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ) 

The big thing to point out, however, is that a ton of good documentation is already at http://www.strawsondesign.com/#!manual-install. 

I think the big thing missing right now is a good guide for the connector pinouts that avoid needing to reference the schematic.

For my work-in-progress update on the getting-started page, see http://jadonk.github.io/beaglebone-getting-started/START.htm. 

Patches welcome.

[James Strawson]

I have pinouts listed in the individual manual pages for encoders, i2c, uart, etc. Diagrams would be better but the info is here.

http://strawsondesign.com/#!manual-encoders

http://strawsondesign.com/#!manual-i2c

http://strawsondesign.com/#!manual-spi

http://strawsondesign.com/#!manual-uart

http://strawsondesign.com/#!manual-adc

Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

University of California, San Diego

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[Jason Kridner]

I think I've completed the getting-started portion and now need to move to updating bone101. 

Everyone please look at http://jadonk.github.io/beaglebone-getting-started/START.htm and let me know if anything needs further adjustment on that page itself. 

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[Jason Kridner]

On May 19, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Clark Briggs <clark....@ata-e.com> wrote:

Jason,

I’ve been reading/lurking aka not running one.

Trouble shooting says ssh uses root and blank. I thought that was different now.

Ok, maybe that section is not in getting started. But check it.

Thanks. It is indeed debian/temppwd now. 

Clark

[Mark A. Yoder]

Jason:

  Looks good.  Could you also add some "Quick Links" at the top.  I can think of two that would be handy (but there may be others):

192.168.7.2  main page

192.168.7.2:3000  Cloud9 IDE

I'm thinking of a workshop setting where they could be told to open START.html and use the quick link to Cloud9.

--Mark

[Clark Briggs]

Jason,

I’ve been reading/lurking aka not running one.

Trouble shooting says ssh uses root and blank. I thought that was different now.

Ok, maybe that section is not in getting started. But check it.

Clark

 

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I think I've completed the getting-started portion and now need to move to updating bone101. 

[Jason Kridner]

I've added quick links to http://jadonk.github.io/beaglebone-getting-started/START.htm if a connection is found. Please try it out.

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[Niels Jakob Buch]

As a noob using BeagleBone Blue this page is not making clear what to look for on your board. The image shown is an old BeagleBone Black I assume, and the reference to buttons and other details that are NOT present on your own board leads you to conclude you are in the wrong place.

I am still not understanding why there is a SD-boot button as I have never used it, but the instructions refer to it, and I am suggesting to clean up that text.

I see 4 grey images with unhappy faces (image does not exist) in the books section.

Based on my overall experience from using the the BeagleBone Blue I would stress the fact that this is a community effort, with great variation in maturity and finish. This is actually the most difficult part, I am still looking for a mature python library and it does not seem to exist. Beginner guidance on this part would help.

[Robert Nelson]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Niels Jakob Buch <njb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a noob using BeagleBone Blue this page is not making clear what to look
> for on your board. The image shown is an old BeagleBone Black I assume, and
> the reference to buttons and other details that are NOT present on your own
> board leads you to conclude you are in the wrong place.
>
> I am still not understanding why there is a SD-boot button as I have never
> used it, but the instructions refer to it, and I am suggesting to clean up
> that text.
>
> I see 4 grey images with unhappy faces (image does not exist) in the books
> section.
>
> Based on my overall experience from using the the BeagleBone Blue I would
> stress the fact that this is a community effort, with great variation in
> maturity and finish. This is actually the most difficult part, I am still
> looking for a mature python library and it does not seem to exist. Beginner
> guidance on this part would help.

"mature", sorry wrong "verb".. The blue just came out a few months back.

Your one of the first users, it's those uses that usually write the
first python libraries..

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

[Niels Jakob Buch]

"mature", sorry wrong "verb"..  The blue just came out a few months back.

Your one of the first users, it's those uses that usually write the
first python libraries..

Yeah, and thats exactly the point that I think would make sense to let people know. 

[Robert Nelson]

btw check out:

"Python bindings for roboticscape"

https://github.com/mcdeoliveira/rcpy

still early, he has a few changes to the base libroboticscape library.

[Jason Kridner]

All, I've merged updates to http://beagleboard.org/getting-started now as it seems to be an overall improvement to what was there.

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:08 PM Niels Jakob Buch <njb...@gmail.com> wrote:

As a noob using BeagleBone Blue this page is not making clear what to look for on your board. The image shown is an old BeagleBone Black I assume, and the reference to buttons and other details that are NOT present on your own board leads you to conclude you are in the wrong place.

I'll add a picture for BeagleBone Blue---hopefully later today. Black Wireless should look very much like Black. I'm hopeful BeagleBoard-* users don't need pictures to find the LEDs. For the "compatible" boards, I simply can't add pictures for all of them.

 

I am still not understanding why there is a SD-boot button as I have never used it, but the instructions refer to it, and I am suggesting to clean up that text.

I'll add a note to the updating section. It simply forces boot to bypass the on-board eMMC flash in case it has some "bad" content. If it had "no" content, it would be bypassed anyway.

 

I see 4 grey images with unhappy faces (image does not exist) in the books section.

Should be fixed now.

 

Based on my overall experience from using the the BeagleBone Blue I would stress the fact that this is a community effort, with great variation in maturity and finish. This is actually the most difficult part, I am still looking for a mature python library and it does not seem to exist. Beginner guidance on this part would help.

Thanks Robert for sharing the Python library link elsewhere on this thread. I also added a link to the github repo for forking the getting started to emphasize the community aspect.

 

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[Yoder, Mark A]

Jason:

                The quick links look nice.  Here’s what I see:

 

Web server:       doesn’t render right.  Looks like a css is missing.

Cloud9 IDE:         Looks great!

SSH server:         Didn’t do anything.  I’m using Chrome

Node-RED:          Looks good, but Beagle IO is missing.

 

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[Jason Kridner]

On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 2:18:10 PM UTC-4, Yoder, Mark A wrote:

Jason:

                The quick links look nice.  Here’s what I see:

 

Web server:       doesn’t render right.  Looks like a css is missing.

Screenshot?

 

Cloud9 IDE:         Looks great!

SSH server:         Didn’t do anything.  I’m using Chrome

This really depends on what you have registered for "ssh:" on your system. On a Mac, it should open Terminal.app.

 

Node-RED:          Looks good, but Beagle IO is missing.

Robert, do you know what happened to the Beagle I/O? Of course, for Blue this needs updating. I don't think octalbonescript comprehends Blue yet either.

 

 

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[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Jason Kridner <jkri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 2:18:10 PM UTC-4, Yoder, Mark A wrote:
>>
>> Jason:
>>
>> The quick links look nice. Here’s what I see:
>>
>>
>>
>> Web server: doesn’t render right. Looks like a css is missing.
>
>
> Screenshot?
>
>>
>> Cloud9 IDE: Looks great!
>>
>> SSH server: Didn’t do anything. I’m using Chrome
>
>
> This really depends on what you have registered for "ssh:" on your system.
> On a Mac, it should open Terminal.app.
>
>>
>> Node-RED: Looks good, but Beagle IO is missing.
>
>
> Robert, do you know what happened to the Beagle I/O? Of course, for Blue
> this needs updating. I don't think octalbonescript comprehends Blue yet
> either.

yeah, Beagle I/O/octalbonescript needs to know what to do with the Blue.