Lightpack firmware 6.3 about boblight-lightpack

[timsat]

Hi,
6.3 is not available publicly yet. I can send it to you, but Power/Act LED will not work on your devices. And one more question: do you use DM6XX drivers in your Lightpacks?

[AJErazzor]

Hi the power led isn't a big deal. I am running lightpacks from a raspberry pi so not sure about drivers. If you could send the firmware that would be great. I can always flash back to 6.2 if I have a problem can't I?

Thanks
Andrew

On 24/10/2013, at 11:37 PM, timsat [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
6.3 is not available publicly yet. I can send it to you, but Power/Act LED will not work on your devices. And one more question: do you use DM6XX drivers in your Lightpacks?

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[timsat]

sure you can! Here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1c_cMsvPufaTC1mbnlqMzVNWlE/edit?usp=sharing is
the firmware.

Cheers,
Timur.

On 25 October 2013 10:58, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

Hi the power led isn't a big deal. I am running lightpacks from a
raspberry pi so not sure about drivers. If you could send the firmware that
would be great. I can always flash back to 6.2 if I have a problem can't I?

Thanks
Andrew

On 24/10/2013, at 11:37 PM, timsat [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
6.3 is not available publicly yet. I can send it to you, but Power/Act
LED will not work on your devices. And one more question: do you use DM6XX
drivers in your Lightpacks?

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[AJErazzor]

Hi the firmware worked and I can get the iserial but when I start the boblightd I get the following:

root@raspbmc:/usr/local/bin# boblightd

Boblightd 2.0 (optimized version for raspberry) (c) 2013 Speedy1985 and Heven)
(InitLog) start of log /root/.boblight/boblightd.log
(PrintFlags) starting boblightd
(CConfig::LoadConfigFromFile) opening /etc/boblight.conf
(CConfig::CheckConfig) checking config lines
(CConfig::CheckDeviceConfig) ERROR: /etc/boblight.conf line 8 section [device]: unknown key serial
root@raspbmc:/usr/local/bin#

Is this because I may not be using your boblightd?

Thanks
Andrew

On 25 Oct 2013, at 9:04 pm, timsat [email protected] wrote:

sure you can! Here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1c_cMsvPufaTC1mbnlqMzVNWlE/edit?usp=sharingis
the firmware.

Cheers,
Timur.

On 25 October 2013 10:58, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

Hi the power led isn't a big deal. I am running lightpacks from a
raspberry pi so not sure about drivers. If you could send the firmware that
would be great. I can always flash back to 6.2 if I have a problem can't I?

Thanks
Andrew

On 24/10/2013, at 11:37 PM, timsat [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
6.3 is not available publicly yet. I can send it to you, but Power/Act
LED will not work on your devices. And one more question: do you use DM6XX
drivers in your Lightpacks?

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[timsat]

Quite right. Speedy1985 didn't get the most recent changes related to Lightpack support. Please try original, Bob's boblightd, instead. It is compileable without any patches on RPi, or you can try to build my fork https://github.com/timsat/boblightd-for-raspberry

[AJErazzor]

Thanks for your help - will that mean using the boblight add on? Are you able to point me to an article to help me with a compile - I'm not great at Linux yet

Thanks
Andrew

On 27/10/2013, at 1:24 AM, timsat [email protected] wrote:

Quite right. Speedy1985 didn't get the most recent changes related to Lightpack support. Please try original, Bob's boblightd, instead. It is compileable without any patches on RPi, or you can try to build my fork https://github.com/timsat/boblightd-for-raspberry

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[AJErazzor]

ok sorry i shouldnt have asked that. So I have it working with 2 lightpacks plugged into rpi usb ports, however when I introduce an unpowered hub, and run boblightd it finds it, then not, then finds it. I have tried with 2 hubs with same result would you have any idea?

[timsat]

the problem is that "address" is not permanent, and it is changed every
time when connecting device, so that's why we started to use identification
by serial number.

Cheers,
Timur.

On 28 October 2013 15:55, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

ok sorry i shouldnt have asked that. So I have it working with 2
lightpacks plugged into rpi usb ports, however when I introduce an
unpowered hub, and run boblightd it finds it, then not, then finds it. I
have tried with 2 hubs with same result would you have any idea?

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[AJErazzor]

Hi I understand that and I have everything working with two lightpacks connected directly to the pi's USB ports using iserial
I think it is the power once going through the hub - looking at the verbose output from lsusb, the MaxPower for the lightpack id 500mA, yet max power for an unpowered hub is 100mA.
Does the lightpack need to draw 500mA seeing as it is self powered? (if this is the problem?)
Could you make a firmware that changed the MaxPower to 50mA for testing - I am happy to try it out....

I thought I could get around the power issue using a powered hub, when I do this, the lights come on immediately - I assume as it is not expecting power, or it is drawing too much from the hub?

[AJErazzor]

OK turns out my Belkin hub is bad - I changed to a different powered hub and it is all working great now. I want to write a blog on how to get two lightpacks up and running - I have the 6.3 firmware but want to be sure it is OK to upload and link to - or is there an official source?

[timsat]

Glad to hear that! We will release 6.3 firmware soon and there will be an official source, meanwhile it is ok you to provide separate link (please don't link to my google drive).

[timsat]

by the way it is http://ajpawelski.wordpress.com/how-to-raspberry-pi-raspbmc-and-a-lightpack/ your blog, isn't it? Great tutorial thanks!

[AJErazzor]

yep thats mine.

Will host the file on my skydrive till official comes available.

[AJErazzor]

Hi looking to get lightpack support for the active development of Hyperion for the rpi.

Wondering if you could chime in and offer help to get this to happen – seems to be a superior option to boblight?

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=11053

would love your help and support if you are able to offer it?

Andrew

From: timsat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 November 2013 01:59
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Cc: AJErazzor
Subject: Re: [boblight-lightpack] Lightpack firmware 6.3 (#3)

by the way it is http://ajpawelski.wordpress.com/how-to-raspberry-pi-raspbmc-and-a-lightpack/ your blog, isn't it? Great tutorial thanks!

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[timsat]

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for delay. We have no resources to add Lightpack support to Hyperion
for now, may be later.

Cheers,
Timur.

On 13 November 2013 09:17, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

Hi looking to get lightpack support for the active development of Hyperion
for the rpi.

Wondering if you could chime in and offer help to get this to happen –
seems to be a superior option to boblight?

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=11053

would love your help and support if you are able to offer it?

Andrew

From: timsat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 November 2013 01:59
To: timsat/boblight-lightpack
Cc: AJErazzor
Subject: Re: [boblight-lightpack] Lightpack firmware 6.3 (#3)

by the way it is
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[AJErazzor]

Hi, wasn’t asking you to commit any resources, just to put in your vote for the devs that are working on it – good news is they have already got it up and running! No multi lightpack support just jet but they are working on this too.

Andrew

From: timsat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 21 November 2013 00:07
To: timsat/boblight-lightpack
Cc: AJErazzor
Subject: Re: [boblight-lightpack] Lightpack firmware 6.3 (#3)

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for delay. We have no resources to add Lightpack support to Hyperion
for now, may be later.

Cheers,
Timur.

On 13 November 2013 09:17, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

Hi looking to get lightpack support for the active development of Hyperion
for the rpi.

Wondering if you could chime in and offer help to get this to happen –
seems to be a superior option to boblight?

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=11053

would love your help and support if you are able to offer it?

Andrew

From: timsat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 November 2013 01:59
To: timsat/boblight-lightpack
Cc: AJErazzor
Subject: Re: [boblight-lightpack] Lightpack firmware 6.3 (#3)

by the way it is
http://ajpawelski.wordpress.com/how-to-raspberry-pi-raspbmc-and-a-lightpack/your blog, isn't it? Great tutorial thanks!

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[timsat]

That's a great news, thanks!

Cheers,
Timur.

On 21 November 2013 08:06, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

Hi, wasn’t asking you to commit any resources, just to put in your vote
for the devs that are working on it – good news is they have already got it
up and running! No multi lightpack support just jet but they are working on
this too.

Andrew

From: timsat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 21 November 2013 00:07
To: timsat/boblight-lightpack
Cc: AJErazzor
Subject: Re: [boblight-lightpack] Lightpack firmware 6.3 (#3)

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for delay. We have no resources to add Lightpack support to Hyperion
for now, may be later.

Cheers,
Timur.

On 13 November 2013 09:17, AJErazzor [email protected] wrote:

Hi looking to get lightpack support for the active development of
Hyperion
for the rpi.

Wondering if you could chime in and offer help to get this to happen –
seems to be a superior option to boblight?

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=11053

would love your help and support if you are able to offer it?

Andrew

From: timsat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 November 2013 01:59
To: timsat/boblight-lightpack
Cc: AJErazzor
Subject: Re: [boblight-lightpack] Lightpack firmware 6.3 (#3)

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