Updated OpenPeak Firmware (Version 30301)

[roobarb!]

I still have a problem with the wifi on my devices. I wonder if the new firmware will fix it...? Anyway, thanks for persevering with it. I'm flashing now after several false starts, probably caused by Safari opening the .gz and me not realising it had uncompressed it in situ. With the image uncompressed the boot fails and / or you can't copy it to the USB stick. All my fault - more haste less speed etc.

Yes, Safari tries to be helpful, but the decompressed file won't write because it not match the checksum file, or it'll just be too big for the stick!

The reflash appears to have gone well and it is rebooting. Got O2 splash screen then OpenPeak, followed by Tango home screen. So far so good, but it cannot see my wireless network. Locked up with a wired connection on acquiring IP address. On a reboot I have an IP address! Time to go nosing about I guess..

Good luck with it; if you boot the reflash system without an image to write and have a keyboard plugged in, you can boot to a command line. Then you can list all of the interfaces available with:

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ifconfig -a

That way you should at least be able to see if the card is being recognised.

[JonB]

Pete - as you can see I have just got both of them working thanks to your advice and roobarb's latest SqueezeOS.

I'm glad there's still some activity on the forum and that people are still using the Joggler.

Once again, thanks to you and roobarb for helping me. Really happy to have the Jogs up and running again.

Cheers
JonB

[pete]

Good news JonB.

Here still utilize main Jogglers for Home automation touchscreens and a few running Squeezeplayer ~ 20 around the house now. While old these continue to run 24/7. The screens are shut off at night.

[roobarb!]

My server is receiving heartbeats (yeah, that's what OpenPeak called them in the code!) from about 8 different devices now; I'm assuming nobody's having trouble with their icons vanishing with v30301? If you are, please post here and I'll investigate.

[BigT]

Wow.. Found my old bookmarks backup and found this forum still alive.
Time to get my little joggler out of storage and have another play.

Mainly looking to watch my door CCTV ideally. Or as a NAS media player if you can point me in the right direction?

[pete]

CCTV works well using SD but is a bit slow using HD. Ultimate with least amount of changes is to convert your Joggler to a Squeezebox player running off of the 1Gb internal eMMC.

Never tried a NAS on the Joggler. I have modded them here with small ZIF SSD drives for use with Windows (and new BIOS).

[hawsey]

Nearest I have is Plex server running for my music collection in the background with Squeezeplay os running off usb efi boot .

Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

[rd07]

Apologies for the stupid question but I'm hoping someone can help. I've followed the instructions and downloaded the latest version and the MD5, extracted the image, used Win32DiskImager to write the image to the USB, however, after removing the USB and plugging it back into the computer again, I still can't see a 'reflash' folder which the instructions say the .img.gz and .img.gz.md5 need to be moved to. All I can are 5 files -

boot.efi
initrd
startup.nsh
sum0
vmlinux0

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks

[pete]

Yeah the reflash image puts in a regular dos seen directory on the USB stick. Then you copy over the img and md5 files over to it.

If you do not see a directory using your computer file manager then rewrite the stick.

Try:

1 - first format the stick with told HP USB stick formatting program:

2 - then write the reflash image to the stick using Win32DiskImager

3 - then copy the two image files over to the reflash directory.

For me writing to the USB stick works better in Windows than Linux using GParted.

[rd07]

** EDIT - sorted now, USB stick is ready, however, Joggler (which I've not used for a while) is not powering on! I can see a small green flashing light coming from just below the headphone jack but screen is not coming on at all. Different problem to solve now!

Thanks for the reply. I tried the steps you mentioned using the HP USB stick and still have the same issue in that I can't see any folders, just the files I mentioned in my previous post. I've tried 2 different USB sticks too. Any ideas what else I could try? Thanks

[pete]

Yeah the stick has a fat partition and that is the only one you can see with a windows PC. There in the fat partion is the reflash directory where you copy the base build two files. What OS are you using to do this? Windows xp, 7 or 10? You should see it find with all three OS's.

The USB boot stick created only works on the O2 Joggler or Openpeak 1 and 2 devices.

IE: here is a picture from my Linux computer showing two partitions on the USB stick.
1 - partition 1 - fat - this is the only one you see in windows
2 - partition 2 - Linux EXT4 - this one you cannot see in windows

You just copy the two files over to the reflash directory.

When writing to the 1 or 2 Gb eMMC partition using the Squeezeplayer firmware you will see this sshing to your new Joggler Squeezeplayer device.

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oot@ICS-Jog-SQP-17:~# df -l
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev              250616      4    250612   1% /dev
tmpfs              50692    648     50044   2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2   1944208 645912   1199532  36% /
none                   4      0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none              196608     24    196584   1% /tmp
none                5120      0      5120   0% /run/lock
none              253452      0    253452   0% /run/shm
none              102400      0    102400   0% /run/user
none              262144    396    261748   1% /var/cache/apt
none              262144      0    262144   0% /var/lib/apt/lists
none               16384    444     15940   3% /var/log
/dev/mmcblk0p1     31168  11234     19934  37% /boot

ICS-Jog-SQP-17:~# uname -a
Linux ICS-Jog-SQP-17 3.18.2op4 #4 SMP Thu Jan 15 16:26:27 GMT 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

ICS-Jog-SQP-17:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

[pete]

Trashed it using SID versions of Debian and trying to get Alsa and Bluetooth working.

Started again from scratch.

See a new build now to download: (started with 137, then 138)

bul-ext2-1028-43-bullseye-5.10.140op

Posted on September 1, 20222.

1 - Writing image to 32Gb USB stick via Linux Ubuntu desktop with balenaEtcher.app
2 - expanding image to full USB space with GParted (fast and easy)
3 - editing network.yaml file with WLAN info.
4 - booting Openpeak 2 (with speakers in front) and new WLAN / Bluetooth card to command line.
5 - creating "pete" sudo user
6 - creating a password for root and configuring SSH for root access

Side Tangent Note: Purchased a 1Gb SSD drive a few weeks back from Ebay / China. Initially it worked fine for about an hour...then started to error out. Drive became unusable. Got a 70% refund from the Ebay seller.

So loaded up the old windows low level formatting utility on one of the Jogglers running XPe using a USB to Sata cable. Its been days now and around 40 % done. It did hit some slow spots. Lets see if the LLF program fixes this "el cheapo" Gb SSD drive. The tabletop is on 24/7 and screens are shut off via automation software every night.

Back to Debian.....

Before I continue will write a new mac address / firmware to the NIC card. I do not remember now if I ever did this specific OpenPeak.

Checked and noticed that I do not have a mac address on the Realtek NIC..

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root@openframe:/home/of# dmesg | grep -i r8169
[    1.361754] r8169 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    1.365444] r8169 0000:01:00.0: can't read MAC address, setting random one
[    1.395178] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: RTL8168c/8111c, 76:2c:98:ac:a1:fc, XID 3c4, IRQ 24
[    1.398589] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 6122 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[   13.911780] RTL8211B Gigabit Ethernet r8169-0-100:00: attached PHY driver [RTL8211B Gigabit Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-100:00, irq=IGNORE)
[   14.003484] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: Link is Down
[   16.227282] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off

1 - make a dos boot stick with realtek software to write mac address
2 - write current boot EFI ROM to stick
3 - write seabios boot rom to OpenPeak device
4 - boot up with DOS stick and write a new MAC address to the OpenPeak device...I try to match the mac with the designated IP here.
I've done this with all of the Jogglers running embedded Windows and manage them remotely via automation software via MAC address.
Search results for "openpeak"
Vendor 80C862
Openpeak, Inc 001BC5021

so it will be:
80 C8 62 244 219
IE: IP is 192.168.244.219
5 - tested boot up USB stick via USB hub with Logitech USB wireless keyboard. Works.

Checking kernal log and loading NIC fine except that after boot a new mac is generated.

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root@openframe:/etc/ssh# ip a s eth0 | grep ether
    link/ether 02:24:42:bf:06:cc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 80:c8:62:24:42:19

[sharpharp]

Thank you Roobarb!

Yesterday my SB OS player went to just booting the O2 screen; so I will give it a try. I did also purchase a few of the flash chips if I need them.

What are Ikea flat packs?

Is it possible to add some Clock faces to the open peak image? Like the o2 clock from the Pnp 3 image?

[pete]

Not sure as I have not used the Joggler with original updated flash image in a while.

[roobarb!]

Is it possible to add some Clock faces to the open peak image? Like the o2 clock from the Pnp 3 image?

It's likely to be more trouble than it's worth... almost everything on the original firmware was Flash, including the clocks if I remember correctly.

You would be better off using a modern OS and installing a clock screensaver, though there'll be a bit of a learning curve getting started. I'm sure folk here would be happy to help out though.

[sharpharp]

Not sure as I have not used the Joggler with original updated flash image in a while.

Any chance of trying with the pnp3 image and always adding of clock faces?

[sharpharp]

Is it possible to add some Clock faces to the open peak image? Like the o2 clock from the Pnp 3 image?

It's likely to be more trouble than it's worth... almost everything on the original firmware was Flash, including the clocks if I remember correctly.

You would be better off using a modern OS and installing a clock screensaver, though there'll be a bit of a learning curve getting started. I'm sure folk here would be happy to help out though.

Can you suggest the most flexible OS for using the Joggler as a bedside clock but with a large clock display and allow for adding other clock faces?

[pete]

Here still using Flipclock on most of my Jogglers running Windows embedded. Gluqlo is the Linux version of it.