C.H.I.P. my controller choise

[fernando alvarez buylla]

almost a year ago i was browsing on kickstarter when i saw the new micro pc C.H.I.P. from Next Thing Co. (www.getchip.com) , i order one just for fun 9usd + 6usd shipping , this machine took too long to arrive almost a year ,
but when arrive i get amazed of all the fetures that this $9 machine can do

1GHz Allwinner R8 processor
512MB of RAM
8GBytes of flash
Wifi
Bluetooth 4.0
video output (composite video)
linux debian distribution

CHIP is powered at 5V and draws about 500mA during boot,On the header terminals, we find a variety of power sources include 5V, 3.3V and 1.8V. The maximum current draws on these are 2A, 700mA and 50mA respectively

already included with a connector for a battery ( 1s) with " sudo battery.sh "we can have battery stats
BAT_STATUS=0
CHARG_IND=1
BAT_EXIST=1
CHARGE_CTL=0xc9
CHARGE_CTL2=0x45
Battery voltage = 3951.2mV
Battery discharge current = 0mA
Battery charge current = 510.0mA
Internal temperature = 56.8c

so i decide to make a controller for my sensors as i dont had a pi (to expensive for me )
so i decide to install mycontroller (mycontroller.org) it works pretty well but i decide to use Domoticz the installation for domoticz is pretty simple

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential nano cmake git libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-system-dev libsqlite3-dev curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libusb-dev zlib1g-dev python3-dev
mkdir ~/domoticz
cd ~/domoticz
wget https://releases.domoticz.com/releases/release/domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz
tar xvfz domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz
rm domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz
./domoticz 

and thats it
http://chip-ip:8080

domoticz is really nice controller i gonna test it for a couple of months.

also we can install node-red and johnny-five gpio for chip

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install python
cd /tmp
mkdir node
cd node
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.4.7/node-v4.4.7-linux-armv7l.tar.xz
tar -xvf node*
cd node*
sudo cp -R * /usr/local
cd /usr/local/bin
cd ~
mkdir node-red
cd node-red
npm install node-red
cd node_modules
cd node-red
npm install node-red-contrib-gpio johnny-five chip-io
node red.js

Go to http://chip-ip:1880 and play
i test node-red and works great
if you know how to use a pi you will know how to use chip

on the chip forum danjperron manage to add a nrf24l01 to the chip se meaby we can use a controller and gateway in the same device or make wifi sensors
https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/success-nrf24l01-on-spi-works/7919