Building on Orange Pi One SBC
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I just got myself a cheap Orange Pi SBC to experiment with and to see how it compares with my Rpi and Pi3. These devices are available for around 12USD from the far east although I paid slightly more from a UK source. That's about half the price of a Pi3. HDMI video and a keyboard is required for initial setup although I managed to do most of it over ssh once connected to my network over ethernet.
After installing the Ubuntu flavour of Armbian LInux, I found the compiler tools and git already installed. I pulled a copy of the Direwolf git repository as per the manual but my first build attempt failed due to missing library and header files. These were downloaded by a "sudo apt-get libasound2 libasound2-dev libgps22 libgps-dev". Building completed followed by sudo make install and make install-conf. I connected a usb sound card and configured with alsamixer. This was listed as card 2 so I adjusted direwolf.conf accordingly. It's currently sat there on the bench connected to a HT monitoring my main APRS node and anything else in close proximity on 144.8. It's also connected to APRS-IS as G4IRX-1. Next challenge is to figure out the GPIO for a PTT and RX led interface. GPIO needs further configuration. More details on the Orange Pi here - and Armbian Linux here - 73, Nick G4IRX |
开云体育Hi Dan, I discovered that the GPIO pins are not the same as the Pi and
have to be defined in a FEX file. I do have the GPIO working now
by creating 4 GPIO ports then using GPIO3 for PTT on pin22 and
GPIO4 for DCD on pin 15. So far I have it driving LED via a 2k2
resistor. 73, Nick. On 03/02/2017 06:55,
danielgureanu@... [direwolf_packet] wrote:
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开云体育I gather there are a lot of QA issues with these also they are
very picky with memory cards. I used a 32GB class 10 Integral
brand with mine.? 73 Nick. On 03/02/2017 02:23, k9wkj@...
[direwolf_packet] wrote:
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Nick G4IRX