Alternative PC boards

Banana Pi M64

Advantages:

  • eMMC (instead of microSD)

Disadvantages:

  • non-regular RPI instructions (non-100% compatible GPIO wiring PI)
  • not up-to-date Raspbian OS
  • purchasing price

 

Install procedure:

Raspberry PI Compute Module 3

 

Advantages:

  • industry-designed (temperature robustness)
  • eMMC (instedad microSD)
  • regular RPI instructions and Raspbian OS
  • extended GPIO pins (if needed)

Disadvantages:

  • purchasing price
  • missing LAN interface (need to be used USB-LAN adapter)

Install procedure:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/computemodule/cm-emmc-flashing.md

Make sure J4 (USB SLAVE BOOT ENABLE)
sudo apt-get install git
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot
cd usbboot
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev
make
sudo ./rpiboot
sudo dd if=raw_os_image_of_your_choice.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4MiB

TTN installation
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1) follow the same steps as in Raspberry PI 2/3

2) in ./bin/start.sh comment GPIO7 (otherwise PIN7 is in HIGH and iC880 is in restart mode)

PINOUT:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UP board 2GB + 32 GB eMMC memory

Advantages:

  • industry-designed (temperature robustness)
  • eMMC (instedad microSD)
  • regular 64bit OS (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04)

Disadvantages:

  • higher price (more-less 4x higher than RasberryPi)
  • GPIO emulation
  • some scripts doesn’t detect a version of HW (need to debug)
    • TTN script /opt/ttn-gateway/start.sh needs to be updated. UPboard has a default state on GPIO pin no xxx as hight (the original script for RPI expect the low state)
    • Update of SPI

Buy at: https://www.iqrf.shop/product/detail/?product=2461

 

 

Install procedure:

1) boot USB Rfus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) with ubilinux.iso (https://emutex.com/products/ubilinux), see also http://wiki.up-community.org/Ubilinux

2) after boot press F7, choose target disk: usually the default is ok (/dev/mmcblk0)

3) set boot to runlevel_2

4) connect UP board with iC880, CAUTION:  reset pin (pin13 at iC880) in connected to (=Linux GPIO 7, upBoard pin =22)

5) follow the instructions at http://lora.vsb.cz/index.php/building-ttn-gateway/

6) if the installation fails go to /opt/ttn-gateway and manually install packet_forwarder and lora_gateway

7) add in ./bin ln -s with link to reset_pkt_fwd.sh

8) in reset_pkt_fwd.sh an in start.sh change reset pin to 22

9) in ./bin/start.sh call ./restart_pkt_fwd.sh before pckt_fwd.sh

10) modify in
./lora_gateway/libloragw/inc/lorank.h
./lora_gateway/libloragw/inc/imst_rpi.h

#define SPI_DEV_PATH "/dev/spidev0.0"
cat /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi*
#define SPI_DEV_PATH "/dev/spidev2.0"

11) start by: /opt/ttn-gateway/bin/start.sh
restart by: /opt/ttn-gateway/bin/restart_pkt_fwd.sh start

12) make backup via bootable USB with Ubuntu 18.04 (in GPT) by dd

14) DEBUG: enable in ./lora_gateway/libloragw/inc/config.h