Banana Pi: I2C Barometric Sensor BMP085

Wiring

---> 3.3 volts - to vcc on board
---> ground - to gnd on board
---> SDA - to sda on board
---> SLC - to scl on board

Wiring, BMP085

Locating the sensor

root@lemaker:~# ls -l /dev/i2c*
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 0 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-0
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 1 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-1
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 2 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-2
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 3 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-3
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 4 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-4

As you can see there are 5 I2C buses. With the i2cdetect tool we are looking for the 0x77 address, which is the BMP085.

# -y 0, -y 1 etc
sudo i2cdetect -y 2

We are using the  Adafruit BMP Python Library to access the sensor.

sudo apt-get install git build-essential python-dev python-smbus
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_BMP.git
cd Adafruit_Python_BMP
sudo python setup.py install

There are some example scripts in the examples folder.

cd examples

# we need to change the bus number
nano simpletest.py
#uncomment sensor = BMP085.BMP085(busnum=2)
#and comment #sensor = BMP085.BMP085()

#run code
sudo python simpletest.py

#sample output
Temp = 23.00 *C
Pressure = 97607.00 Pa
Altitude = 313.47 m
Sealevel Pressure = 97607.00 Pa

Banana Pi: Temperature Sensor (DS18B20) - Tutorial

Requirements

--> Banana Pi running Raspbian for Banana Pi
--> Breadboard
--> Jumper Wires
--> DS18b20
--> 4.7K Ohm resistor
--> Breakout cobbler

 

Hardware Setup

Refer to the graphic for the correct wiring. Make sure the Banana Pi is switched off to prevent any possible damage.

Software Setup

Double check the wiring and boot the device. In order to be able to access the temperature data, we need to make some minor adjustments to the script.bin file, which is a binary configuration file used by Allwinner SOC.

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools
cd sunxi-tools
make

#location of the script.bin file
cd /boot/bananapi/

#get the fex file
sudo /home/bananapi/sunxi-tools/bin2fex script.bin bananapi.fex

#edit the fex file
sudo nano bananapi.fex

#add the following at the end, save (CTRL + O) and close
[w1_para]
gpio = 4

#.fex back to .bin
sudo /home/bananapi/sunxi-tools/fex2bin bananapi.fex script.bin

sudo reboot

Reading raw data from the sensor

After successfully rebooting your device, you will notice that /sys/bus/w1/devices is no longer empty.

bananapi@lemaker ~ $ cd /sys/bus/w1/devices
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices $ ls
28-000006203041  w1_bus_master1
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices $ cd 28-000006203041
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-000006203041 $ ls
driver  id  name  power  subsystem  uevent  w1_slave
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-000006203041 $ cat w1_slave
5e 01 4b 46 7f ff 02 10 8d : crc=8d YES
5e 01 4b 46 7f ff 02 10 8d t=21875

t=21875 is the number we are looking for. E.g.: 21.9 degree Celsius (°C) in my case.

my setup

Building Wireshark from Source - Linux (Debian 7.6)

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy)











Latest releases can be found here: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

wget https://1.eu.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2
tar xaf wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2
cd wireshark-1.12.0
#could be that you need to install libgtk-3-dev before compiling
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev 
#to compile
./configure
make
#now run it
sudo ./wireshark

OsmocomBB - Hardware and Software Setup - Tutorial (Motorola C118)

OsmocomBB is an Open Source GSM Baseband software implementation. By using the sofware on a compatible phone (e.g. Motorola C118), you are able to make and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS, etc. based on Free Software only.

 

 

 

Hardware

• PL2303HX USB Serial To RS232 TTL Chip
• 2.5 mm audio jack
• Motorola C118 (E88)

This is a typical pin-out of a 2.5 mm audio jack:

L (Left Signal)	Tip	1	Green
R (Right Signal)	Ring	2	Red
GND (Ground)	Sleeve	3	Bare Copper

You need to soldier the 2.5mm audio jack to the USB Serial To RS232 TTL Chip, whereas

• TxD is at the tip of the plug
• RxD is at the middle contact
• GND is the outer contact 

Software

Connect the phone to your PC and check if it is being recognized.

dmesg | grep tty
user@user:~$ dmesg | grep tty
[    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 6522.143379] usb 3-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

To make sure everything is working, install cu and connect at 115200 baud. Permissions need to be set correctly, otherwise you will run into this error: "Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: Permission denied".

sudo adduser user dialout
sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyUSB0
sudo cu -l /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 115200

Assuming the phone is switched off, press the power button and cu should display fmttool erro, which means you are ready to go!

Compiling OsmocomBB

Compiling GNU ARM toolchain

Ensure you add the path of arm-elf-gcc using export (check in shell: arm-elf-gcc). This is absolutely vital as failure to do so will yield you errors when trying to compile osmocom later on.  

mkdir gnuarm
cd gnuarm
wget  http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/GnuArmToolchain/gnu-arm-build.2.sh
chmod +x gnu-arm-build.2.sh

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libx11-6 libx11-dev texinfo flex bison libncurses5 \
 libncurses5-dbg libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dbg libpcsclite-dev libncursesw5-dev zlibc zlib1g-dev libmpfr4 libmpc-dev aptitude

sudo aptitude install libtool shtool automake autoconf git-core pkg-config make gcc

mkdir build install src
cd src/
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.5.2/gcc-4.5.2.tar.bz2
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2
wget ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/newlib/newlib-1.19.0.tar.gz
cd ..
./gnu-arm-build.2.sh

export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/gnuarm/install/bin

Compiling libosmocore

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git
cd libosmocore/
autoreconf -i
./configure
make
sudo make install

Compiling osmocomBB

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/osmocom-bb.git
cd osmocom-bb
git pull --rebase
cd src
make

OsmocomBB Hello world! 

Plug everything in, switch phone off, run command and press the phone's power button.

cd ~/osmocom-bb/src/host/osmocon/
./osmocon -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -m c123xor ../../target/firmware/board/compal_e88/hello_world.compalram.bin

Loading RSSI 

sudo ./osmocon -d tr -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -m c123xor -c ../../target/firmware/board/compal_e88/rssi.highram.bin