If I bought a little colour #LCD screen from AliExpress, how would I drive it? Like, can I just hook the pins up to an #Arduino or #RaspberryPi (#BananaPi in my case), write a bit of software and see an image? Can they usually run at 60 Hz?
I'd like to setup my old #bananapi as an #Asterisk switch. Is there an actual free as-in-freedom Asterisk GUI [front-end, or web interface, or whatever] that does not require installing its own OS or that will install on a BPI M1?
Side note: As near as I can tell, FreePBX and PiaF are popular but require obtaining a "free" license from the developers, which means they control access to the software, which is not free as in freedom.
Looks like @sqfmi renamed their #Beepberry to just #Beepy. Did they get into legal trouble with #Blackberry? 🤔
Maybe they just decided it's better to spin their own keyboard, which I would agree with!
In any way, I really want one. I can't wait to figure out all the compatibility issues with my #BananaPiZeroM2 / #BananaPi. It would be cool if it works though.
These #ARM#rk3328 based SBCs are going to drive me insane. I'm currently booting the #debian installer for #aarch64 over pxe because they're making use of eMMC modules instead of SD cards and the installer has to run through twice with me re-flashing u-boot twice in order to get a running system. These logs should be interesting once I get around to looking at them.
Let's just say I'd not trust an #SBC where the only supported images are on some MEGA.nz or GoogleDrive / box.com accounts and the documentation doesn't even specify how to reproducibly build a minimal Linux for it.
oh, I had gotten an idea for a great #raspberrypi project: A network status display.
For people with monthly data limits it's useful to know how much data has been used, so a little display showing stats from the gateway router would be a great idea. It could also show graphs and other cool things.
Obviously it is not really possible to add this functionality directly to the router and such routers don't really exist, so a raspberry pi would be needed to get information from the router via whatever APIs it has.
Of course, if the raspberry pi itself is the router, this is a lot more straightforward.
Or you could get a #bananapi R2, and have a gateway router with wifi, GPIO for LCD display, web server, and NAS storage all in one! Pretty epic!
Some parts have arrived today from Reichelt.de.
A Noctua fan and a #bananapi zero.
It is sporting an ARM cortex A7 quad core CPU and has exactly the same dimensions like a #raspberrypi zero 2.
I'm hoping it can be used for my retro projects.🤞 #retrogaming#RetroComputing
The #armbian support for #bananapi CM4 module with BPI-CM4IO board has been merged https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4941 !
Now, the BPI-CM4 module should work with RPi CM4 compliant boards, but I only have access to the BananaPi one... So could people can test on some other base-boards or send me some base-boards for testing and I'll upstream Linux/U-Boot for them!