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Introduction

BPI-M3

Overview: BPI-M3 respbian linux

Overview: BPI-M3 debian linux

Overview: BPI-M3 ubuntu linux

  Banana Pi M3 is a super charged single board computer with an Octa-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Along side the elite processing unit, it features Gigabit Ethernet, 2 USB, SATA, WiFi, Bluetooth, and HDMI connection. It can run on a variety of operating systems including Android, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian, and Raspbian.

Key Features

  • Octa-core 1.8GHz Powerful CPU

  • 2 GB LPDDR3 memory

  • 8 GB eMMC storage

  • WiFi & Bluetooth onboard

Development For Android

Load your first image on M3

Load your image on M3 EMMC

How to buld M3 Bsp code

Development For Linux

Let's get start to develop on BPI-M3, see amazing things happen.

Basic Development

Prepare to develop

Load your first image on M3

Load your first image on M3 EMMC

Update your image

For example, update your image to support new emmc5.1

Make your own image

Make one raspbian image

  • Prepare a SD card which have installed Raspbian system

  • Boot your SD card with M3, after M3 finish starting, copy your files and config your Raspbian, then poweroff M3

  • Plug your SD card in Linux PC, "cd /media", then "ln -s pi"

  • Execute "bpi-migrate -c bpi-m3.conf -c raspbian-jessie-from-sd.conf -d /dev/sdx"

  • Then you could get your own image now

Advanced Development

Install Docker

You could try armbian to install docker, here is the image: https://dl.armbian.com/bananapim3/Debian_stretch_dev.7z (Here Thanks for the armbian community)

Download this image to your ubuntu PC (I am using ubuntu PC), then decompress it

  • 7z x Debian_stretch_xxx.img

  • bpi-copy Debian_stretch_xxx.img /dev/sd< drive letter >

Here are steps to install docker:

  • vim /etc/apt/sources.list

  • add this source：“deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main”

  • apt-get update

  • apt-get install docker.io

To have a test, if docker has installed in your image.

  • sudo docker run --rm hello-world

SATA

1. Mount SATA on M3

  • After insert sata interface, execute "fdisk -l"

  • Then "mount /dev/sdx /mnt/xxx"

2. If you meet some errors when you mount SATA, try these following commands:

  • "fdisk /dev/sdx" to create new partition , set your partition numbers and size, after created partitions, input "wq" to save and quit.

  • "mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdx" to format the SATA

  • "mount /dev/sdx /mnt/xxx"

3. After you success to insert SATA, we could input following commands to test SATA interface:

  • "time dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000" to test read speed

  • "time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=1M count=1000" to test write speed

OTG

1. On M3 console:

  • Execute "./adbd.sh", then execute "ps -ax | grep adbd" to see if adbd is set up

2. On PC terminal:

  • If adbd was succeed to set up, insert OTG-USB interface to M3 and PC(with Ubuntu system)

  • Execute "adb devices" to see if PC has recognised M3 OTG

  • If yes, we could execute "adb shell" to connect M3 by adb now

LCD 5" & LCD 7"

  • Execute "bpi-bootsel", you'll see a list of boot files

  • Find "BPI_M3_LCD7.img.gz"

  • Then execute "bpi-bootsel /usr/lib/u-boot/bananapi/bpi-M3/BPI_M3_LCD7.img.gz"

Touch screen

GMAC

Use iperf3 to test gmac

1. On PC Terminal:

  • Execute "iperf3 -s"

2. On M3 console:

  • TCP test: "iperf3 -c serverIP"

  • UDP test: "iperf3 -u -c serverIP"

Bluetooth

  • Use bluetoothctl tool to operate BT

  • Execute "bluetoothctl"

  • If you don't know how to use bluetoothctl, type "help", you will see more commands

  • Execute these commands:

WiFi on M3

WiFi Client

You have two ways to setup WiFi Client

1. Use commands to setup WiFi client

  • ip link set wlan0 up

  • iw dev wlan0 scan | grep SSID

  • vim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

  • wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

  • dhclient wlan0

2. Use UI interface to setup WiFi Client

Clear boot

Camara function

We use HDF5640(The left one) camara and HDF8865(The right one).

Guvcview

  • Use your UI interface to operate camara

  • Applications -> Sound & Video -> guvcview

Shell

Ov5640

  • We also have built-in command in "/usr/local/bin" to test camara

  • "./test_ov5640_image_mode.sh" to test picture taking function

  • "./cameratest.sh" to test video recording function

Ov8865

  • "/test_ov8865.sh"

IR function

  • Execute "getevent"

  • Use your IR device to send information to M3

BPI-Tools

Install Bpi-tools

Update Bpi-tools

  • Execute "bpi-tools"

RPi.GPIO

Install RPi.GPIO

  • Execute "git clone https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/RPi.GPIO"

  • after clone the repo, cd RPi,GPIO

  • Execute "sudo apt-get update"

  • Execute "sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev"

  • Execute "sudo python setup.py install" or "sudo python3 setup.py install" to install the module

Using RPi.GPIO

  • cd /usr/local/bin

  • Execute "./bpi_test_g40.py" to test RPi.GPIO

WiringPi

How to Update WiringPi

  • Execute "bpi-update -c pkglist.conf"

  • Execute "bpi-update -c bpi-pkg-bpi-wiringpi.conf"

RGB 1602 LCD

  • Execute "/usr/local/bin/bpi_test_lcd1602.sh"

0.96 Inch OLED Display

  • Execute "/usr/local/bin/bpi_test_52pi.sh"

8x8 RGB LED Martix

  • Firstly you need a GPIO Extend Board for 8x8 LED Martix

  • Execute "/usr/local/bin/bpi_test_gpio40.sh"

GPU

  • Execute "glmark2-es" to start OpenGL test

  • glmark2 Score: 258

File System

  • read only system change to read & write mode: "mount -o remount,rw /"

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