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FransMeulenbroeks at 07:55, 14 February 2011

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FransMeulenbroeks at 07:49, 14 February 2011

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FransMeulenbroeks at 07:49, 14 February 2011

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FransMeulenbroeks at 07:46, 14 February 2011

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FransMeulenbroeks at 07:40, 14 February 2011

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FransMeulenbroeks: add termination notice

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FransMeulenbroeks at 20:11, 6 October 2010

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FransMeulenbroeks at 19:50, 6 October 2010

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FransMeulenbroeks at 16:58, 8 September 2009

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 ALso a lot of effort was spent on getting Coherence up and running. Coherence is a UPnP server that supports several backends which can e.g. serve FlickR content over UPnP.
-Furthermore an attempt was made to connect the webcam. Technically it works, but apparenty there are some USB related issues. The cam works fine under a regular linux system but on the Beagle over the OTG port apparently data is corrupted. I get a picture but with some colored striping in it. The same behaviour has also been reported by others, but a report from someone who has a revC board with working EHCI said that there webcams were functioning properly.
+Furthermore an attempt was made to connect the webcam. Technically it works, but apparently there are some USB related issues. The cam works fine under a regular linux system but on the Beagle over the OTG port apparently data is corrupted. I get a picture but with some colored striping in it. The same behaviour has also been reported by others, but a report from someone who has a revC board with working EHCI said that there webcams were functioning properly.
 Stay tuned for progress reports.
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 * Perhaps touch screen/pixel based display
 * GATEWAY OVU400002/00 Infrared receiver
-* bluetooth dongle (I use a very small one, but most bluetooth dongels will work)
+* bluetooth dongle (I use a very small one, but most bluetooth dongles will work)
 * Support for WII-mote (requires bluetooth)
 * WiFi. I have successfully used a 3com 3crusb10075 USB dongle (zd1211 based), a Linksys WUSB54G and a Philips CPWUA054/00 USB dongle (both Prism54 based)
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 Ideally of course would be to have an expansion board with features like
-Bbluetooth, WiFi, IR, USB hub), but as such a board does not exist yet
+bluetooth, WiFi, IR, USB hub), but as such a board does not exist yet
 initially the system will use standard USB components (although may be
 with the cover removed and mounted together). Aim is to select small
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 Software functionality on James is the following:
 * Personal Video Recorder (PVR): see http://www.dse.nl/~meulenbr/pvr/pvr.html for some documentation and access to a prototype running on ARM
-* Security functionality (motion pacakge)
+* Security functionality (motion package)
 * Photo retrieval from digital camera (both mass storage and ptp; mtp ?)
 * Audio grabbing from CD
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 * Web browser for displaying the UI locally (not on NSLU2 as it has no display).
-UI of the NLSU2 implementaion was done with html, javascript, css stylesheets, php and some self-written cgi scripts.
+UI of the NLSU2 implementation was done with html, javascript, css stylesheets, php and some self-written cgi scripts.
 It might be that for the next version I'll move to flash. I am planning to make a small prototype, but due to other things I did not get to this yet.
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 hit "build me" and wait (could be a few minutes) for the image to be generated. If you miss a package that is also not that dramatic, as it is always possible to install things later on. After that
 * download the james image for beagleboard (this will give you a file James-image-beagleboard.tar.bz2)
-* downlaod the raw SD card image.(this will give you a file James-image-beagleboard-sd.img.gz).
+* download the raw SD card image.(this will give you a file James-image-beagleboard-sd.img.gz).
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 is present on the SD card
 * insert the card in your beagle and power the beagle.
-* if you want to you can interrupt u-boot by pressing space and set the videomode (e.g by issueing the commands 'setenv optargs omapfb.video_mode=1280x720MR-24@60' and "saveenv' (without the quotes)
+* if you want to you can interrupt u-boot by pressing space and set the videomode (e.g by issuing the commands 'setenv optargs omapfb.video_mode=1280x720MR-24@60' and "saveenv' (without the quotes)
 * have you had enough coffee? if not, grab another cup. All kind of things will be installed. This takes
 quite some time. Especially the loading of the kernel modules takes lots of time.You can follow the
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 I have a pegasus based USB to ethernet dongle. In the kernel the driver for a pegasus dongle is a module. And for some reason the dongle does not get an IP address while booting. Unplugging and replugging the dongle works, but is not very convenient.
-If you also have a pegasus based USB to ethernet dongle you can avoid this by issueing
+If you also have a pegasus based USB to ethernet dongle you can avoid this by issuing
 the following commands on a console on your beagle:
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 After that the module will be loaded before the IP addresses are assigned and the dongle will get an IP address during bootup. You might want to reboot if your dongle requires that you issue the previous two lines.
-Next you want to create a /media directory and optionally populate it with some multimedia content. Creating the directory is dony by:
+Next you want to create a /media directory and optionally populate it with some multimedia content. Creating the directory is done by:
 * mkdir /media/content
-And update your package list by issueing the command:
+And update your package list by issuing the command:
 * opkg update
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 Let us assume that your keyboard is connected to your linux system and that you want to use that keyboard also with your beagle. The linux system then acts as the server system, and the beagle system is the client system. Both systems require that X11 is running and must be connected to the ethernet. Let us assume that both systems have their own display and that the linux display is at the left side and the beagle display is located to the right.
-In order to share the keyboard you need to install synergy on both systems. For beagle synergy is in the feeds and can be installed with 'opkg install synergy'. For your unix system your milage may vary. It may be that your distribution supports synergy. If not you need to download it from http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ and install it yourself. There is one potential caveat. Synergy does not out of the box compile with gcc 4.3. If your system has gcc 4.3 you can patch the synergy sources with [[Media:Synergy-1.3.1-gcc-4.3.patch| this patch]].
+In order to share the keyboard you need to install synergy on both systems. For beagle synergy is in the feeds and can be installed with 'opkg install synergy'. For your unix system your mileage may vary. It may be that your distribution supports synergy. If not you need to download it from http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ and install it yourself. There is one potential caveat. Synergy does not out of the box compile with gcc 4.3. If your system has gcc 4.3 you can patch the synergy sources with [[Media:Synergy-1.3.1-gcc-4.3.patch| this patch]].
 To get things running you need to create a file synergy.conf. Assuming the host names of your systems are linux and beagle, the file looks like:
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 (for the technically interested: what happens is that the server detects that the mouse is on the edge of the screen and if that happens it will pass the mouse events and key presses to the client at that side over TCP/IP).
-If you want to autostart xynergyc when starting your system you can create a file /etc/X11/Xinit.d/99Synergy with contents:
+If you want to autostart synergyc when starting your system you can create a file /etc/X11/Xinit.d/99Synergy with contents:
   #!/bin/sh
   /usr/bin/synergyc server-hostname
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 For the automatic install issue the following steps:
-* create and boot a kernel as explained above. Use a storage device of at least 1GB and make sure your beagle is onnected to internet
+* create and boot a kernel as explained above. Use a storage device of at least 1GB and make sure your beagle is connected to internet
 * login into your beagle
 * wget http://www.dse.nl/~meulenbr/james/james-install
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 can even automatically remove the pictures from your camera after downloading them by adding a gphoto2
 command with the option --delete-all-files. Note that you do this completely at your own responsibility.
-Don't blame me if for wahtever reason you loose pictures!
+Don't blame me if for whatever reason you lose pictures!
 == Ripping an audio CD ==

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 '''NOTE''' This project has been terminated.<br>
-I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server providing media server functionality. It can be found at [http://www.amahi.org www.amahi.org].<br>
+I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a [http://www.amahi.org home server] providing [http://www.amahi.org media server] functionality.
 Currently Amahi runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
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 '''NOTE''' This project has been terminated.<br>
-I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server providing media server functionality and can be found at [http://www.amahi.org www.amahi.org].<br>
+I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server providing media server functionality. It can be found at [http://www.amahi.org www.amahi.org].<br>
 Currently Amahi runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
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 '''NOTE''' This project has been terminated.<br>
-I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server and can be found at [http://www.amahi.org www.amahi.org].<br>
+I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server providing media server functionality and can be found at [http://www.amahi.org www.amahi.org].<br>
 Currently Amahi runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
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 '''NOTE''' This project has been terminated.<br>
-I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server and can be found at [http://www.amahi.org].<br>
+I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server and can be found at [http://www.amahi.org www.amahi.org].<br>
 Currently Amahi runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
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 '''NOTE''' This project has been terminated.<br>
-I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi and can be found at www.amahi.org.<br>
+I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi. It is a home server and can be found at [http://www.amahi.org].<br>
-Currently it runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
+Currently Amahi runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
 <br>
 The distro used by Amahi is Fedora.
-<br><br?
+<br><br>
 = Introduction =

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 [[Category:BeagleBoard]]
+'''NOTE''' This project has been terminated.<br>
-'''I am working on an update of James. This is currently in the testing and documenting stage. Watch this space for information<br>
+I have found a similar project that is much further than mine. The project is called Amahi and can be found at www.amahi.org.<br>
-The new version will be a complete image, so no need to install additional modules (maybe except some kernel modules).<br>
+Currently it runs only on x86 and Marvell kirkwood (Sheevaplug and friends), but I guess running it on other hardware like beagleboard is not too difficult.
-Also the content acquistion/storage/server part will be split from the rendering functionality as doing all on one system is too resource intensive.'''
+<br>
 = Introduction =

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−	'''I am working on an update of James. This is currently in the testing and documenting stage. Watch this space for information'''	+	'''I am working on an update of James. This is currently in the testing and documenting stage. Watch this space for information<br>
		+	The new version will be a complete image, so no need to install additional modules (maybe except some kernel modules).<br>
		+	Also the content acquistion/storage/server part will be split from the rendering functionality as doing all on one system is too resource intensive.'''

	= Introduction =		= Introduction =

← Older revision		Revision as of 19:50, 6 October 2010
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−	'''~~Due to personal issues the development~~ of James ~~has been put on hold~~. ~~In due time I hope to be able to pick~~ this ~~up again. Apologies~~ for ~~any inconvenience.~~'''	+	'''I am working on an update of James. This is currently in the testing and documenting stage. Watch this space for information'''

	= Introduction =		= Introduction =