Install HG on BeagleBaord Black/Debian

[Eric_S]

Hi,

I have a BeagleBoard Black Rev B with the BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-04-14 image. I'm trying to install homegenie-beta_1.00.364_all.deb using gdebi but it fails dependencies for mono-runtime (< 2.10.8.2). Any suggestions?

Maybe this is more for guys at Beagleboard?

Thanks.

[Gene]

Beagle Board debian image is probably missing mono runtime packages.
You could try compiling from sources:

https://github.com/mono/mono

Unfortunately seem like no-one succeed yet:

http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/MONO-For-Beagle-Bone-Black-Software-Development-td4661979.html

And yes, off course you could also ask to BeagleBoard guys to integrate mono in the debian distro =)

Cheers,
g.

[Gene]

Well... there seem to be someone who suceed! =)

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10286.html

It would be interesting writing an HG driver for BBB GPIO's, it shouldn't be hard starting from the RaspiGPIO library example included in HG-MIG.

Cheers,
g.

[Eric_S]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the server at the link you posted just happened to die today. I found the article on Google Groups though.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/mono/beagleboard/MSDKhL0bdrQ/ZZFnzmmT6N4J

I'll let you know how things work out.

[Eric_S]

No luck. Make would not install. I had to abandon Debian because of poor mono support. I installed Ubuntu and mono went right in. Now for HG...as soon as sourceforge comes back on line. 

[Gene]

Ubuntu is also based on debian... and mono it is well supported under debian.
Perhaps it's the BBB debian image not so up to date. For example, the Raspberry one it is.

Cheers,
g.

[bkenobi]

I found that the UK mirror for sourceforge was working yesterday when the main page was down.

[Eric_S]

Here is what worked:

Installed BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04-2014-04-18-2gb.img on BeagleBone Black. I had to boot from the SD and edit /mount/rootfs/etc/shadow to get root access. I just copied in a known password hash. Rebooted from eMMC.

# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/homegenie/homegenie-beta_1.00.368_all.deb
# sudo dpkg -i homegenie-beta_1.00.368_all.deb

Dependencies failed so I did "apt-get -f install" below.

# sudo apt-get -f install
# sudo dpkg -i homegenie-beta_1.00.368_all.deb

Success!
Plugged in Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and waited a minute.

# dmesg
Bunch of stuff
[ 1568.514096] usb 1-1.1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60
Bunch more stuff
# sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x10c4 product=0xea60
# dmesg
Bunch of stuff
[ 1568.668361] usb 1-1.1.1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Bunch more stuff

Configured HG, added z-wave devices and it works!

[bkenobi]

I read that if you use dpkg -i homegenie... it will not resolve dependencies. If you instead use gdebi homegenie... it will resolve those and run straight away.  I've been using gdebi for several version installs and it works great every time (though I'm starting from a Raspi image that had HG already working, so dependencies may not have been critical).

[Eric_S]

Yeah, I chose not to use gdebi because it was not installed in the image and installing ix wasnted to add a whole bunch of other stuff, looked like even gui stuff for X. I don't really want the code bulk.

Off topic: Is the Raspi running Debian with gui (XFCE?) or is it cl? Do you have a Z-Wave interface?

[Gene]

Code: [Select]

sudo apt-get install gdebi-core

will only install the command line utility.

No GUI installed by default on the Raspi image.

g.

[parmar7725274]

Hi !!

I sucessfully cross-compiled mono-runtime. here it is : https://github.com/parmar7725274/MONO-ARM.git

I'm using BBB Rev B with ubuntu-14.04 .

-Prakash

[jarrettv]

Mono-runtime package for pi works fine with BBB. I added the rasbian repo to my sources.list

http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianRepository

First time using HomeGenie, it feels powerful but a little clumsy to setup. Most of all it is fun, open source, and written in C#.

Anybody benchmark the BBB vs Pi?

[bkenobi]

I've done some informal comparison between Pi and WinXP (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200) and the two are the same speed when it comes to X10 operations.  Pi is much slower for some Web interactions such as backing up the setup (Windows takes ~1 second while Pi takes ~2 minutes).  Most other thin gs seem comparable.