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Mysensors Gateway on OrangePi (Zero) (opi)

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  • pansenP pansen

    out of curiousity: this all relates to 3.x kernel in armbian right? which has proprietary stuff in there?

    i read somewhere that mainline 4.10 SPI is "work in progress"

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    @pansen
    Yes correct, for OPI Zero only ARMbian 3.x is available as a download image.
    I used the debian jessie one

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      marceloaqno
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      Instructions page updated, let me know if there is any mistake.

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        Instructions page updated, let me know if there is any mistake.

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        @marceloaqno

        looks great!! thx!!:thumbsup:

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          mihai.aldea
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          Excellent work !!! It finally works, I believe the slight mistake was with the damn SPI device ID. Now that I've enabled /dev/spidev1.0 everything works perfect. Really nice job and awesome commitment to showing people that it's time for them to pull their heads out of their a.... and spend less for way more awesome boards because let's face it, RPi has the greatest community support but it's a nothing more than an expensive closed source crappy board.

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            Excellent work !!! It finally works, I believe the slight mistake was with the damn SPI device ID. Now that I've enabled /dev/spidev1.0 everything works perfect. Really nice job and awesome commitment to showing people that it's time for them to pull their heads out of their a.... and spend less for way more awesome boards because let's face it, RPi has the greatest community support but it's a nothing more than an expensive closed source crappy board.

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            #110

            @mihai.aldea
            Great!!, found out the SPI0 is used for the NAND flash, once you add SPI1 to the script.bin, also the need board paragraph with bus 1 needs to be added otherwise it will not work.... anyway great you got mysensors up and running!!
            About the RPI, i like both boards, and in my opinion the enormous success of the RPI is responsible, for the large collection of OPI boards that is available these days ;)

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              mihai.aldea
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              There are few who know that lots of asian compaines were producing SBC's long before RPi ever existed. RPi has to take credit for the SBC boom, but the connaisseurs will always prefer a top notch SBC that costs less than half of an RPi and is piled with features. Take the OPi Zero for instance, it's way smaller than RPi 3, has half the RAM and doesn't have Bluetooth. But you can buy 4 OPi Zeros with the money you'd spend on an RPi 3.
              Anyway it's an endless debate here, I'm just glad I could help a bit bringing this to life, even though you and @marceloaqno did the heavy lifting.

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                Nca78
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                Thank you for the hard work guys, I have a fresh orange pi zero and I will install armbian and try this hack as soon as possible. Looks like a great way to have an ultra compact&cheap controller + gateway system !

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                  marceloaqno
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                  #113

                  Support for OrangePi is now part of the official MySensors development repository.
                  In the official version, it is necessary to define the CE and CS pins, as the default ones will not work. This will change in the future, but more work needs to be done to better detect the different types of Orange Pi and other H3 soc boards.
                  For now, if you have set your system in the same way as the wiring instructions, use:

                  ./configure --spi-spidev-device=/dev/spidev1.0 --my-transport=nrf24 --my-rf24-ce-pin=2 --my-rf24-cs-pin=13
                  
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                    Support for OrangePi is now part of the official MySensors development repository.
                    In the official version, it is necessary to define the CE and CS pins, as the default ones will not work. This will change in the future, but more work needs to be done to better detect the different types of Orange Pi and other H3 soc boards.
                    For now, if you have set your system in the same way as the wiring instructions, use:

                    ./configure --spi-spidev-device=/dev/spidev1.0 --my-transport=nrf24 --my-rf24-ce-pin=2 --my-rf24-cs-pin=13
                    
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                    @marceloaqno

                    Thank you for your hard work and continued support on this!!

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                      I confirm it's not working on the OPi PC where TMRh20 works.

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                      sergey-sychev
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                      @mihai.aldea
                      It's working on my OPi One with Armbian. MySensors and TMRh20 works!

                      Only in ./MySensors: bin
                      Only in ./MySensors: build
                      diff -ruBdX ex ./_MySensors/drivers/RF24/RF24.cpp ./MySensors/drivers/RF24/RF24.cpp
                      --- ./_MySensors/drivers/RF24/RF24.cpp<>2017-01-28 10:24:03.557215399 +0200
                      +++ ./MySensors/drivers/RF24/RF24.cpp<->2017-01-28 10:58:51.757543157 +0200
                      @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
                       LOCAL RF24_receiveCallbackType RF24_receiveCallback = NULL;
                       #endif
                      .
                      -#ifdef LINUX_SPI_BCM
                      +#if defined (LINUX_SPI_BCM) || (LINUX_SPI_SPIDEV)
                       uint8_t spi_rxbuff[32+1] ; //SPI receive buffer (payload max 32 bytes)
                       uint8_t spi_txbuff[32+1] ; //SPI transmit buffer (payload max 32 bytes + 1 byte for the command)
                       #endif
                      @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
                       <----->RF24_csn(LOW);
                       <----->// timing
                       <----->delayMicroseconds(10);
                      -#ifdef LINUX_SPI_BCM
                      +#if defined (LINUX_SPI_BCM) || (LINUX_SPI_SPIDEV)
                       <----->uint8_t * prx = spi_rxbuff;
                       <----->uint8_t * ptx = spi_txbuff;
                       <----->uint8_t size = len + 1; // Add register value to transmit buffer
                      diff -ruBdX ex ./_MySensors/Makefile.inc ./MySensors/Makefile.inc
                      --- ./_MySensors/Makefile.inc<->2017-01-28 10:49:53.990638008 +0200
                      +++ ./MySensors/Makefile.inc<-->2017-01-28 11:12:57.601198157 +0200
                      @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
                       SOC=H3
                      -CPPFLAGS=-march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -DMY_RADIO_NRF24 -DMY_GATEWAY_LINUX -DMY_DEBUG -DLINUX_SPI_SPIDEV.
                      +CPPFLAGS=-march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -DMY_RADIO_NRF24 -DMY_GATEWAY_LINUX -DLINUX_SPI_SPIDEV -DMY_RF24_CE_PIN=7 -DSPI_S
                       LDFLAGS=-pthread.
                       PREFIX=/usr/local
                       CC=gcc
                      
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                        hausinger
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                        Hi all

                        I want to give feedback here.

                        Today i tried to build a orange pi gateway with a connected usb - rs485 converter on it. And what should I say - It worked without problems. Many thanks to you all :)
                        Great

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                          dantefff
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                          Hi to all, I don't know if this is the right thread, but I'm trying to use an odroid c1 as a gateway. I'm posting here because I think you all could help me.
                          The original thread I have done is this one
                          https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/6083/odroid-c1-as-getaway
                          Feel free to go over there and give me advises.

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