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Known bugs:

• Don't handle other programs seizing control of ant radio gracefully
• Don't handle ant usb stick removal gracefully
• Let us know...

Change log:

• 0.0.1 initial release
• 0.0.2 add wakelock to stop ant sleeping
• 0.0.3 Updated minimum recording distance to 0m (sensor values now drop to zero), improved location determinism, handling most exceptions in TurboService (needs improvement)
• 0.0.4 Updated google play services lib (not sure how different it was)
• 0.0.5 Pause status only check first 3 bytes (thanks Dan), added ability to log ant+ communication: see settings -> ant+ -> diagnostic logging

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Posted by Will on Mon 04 February 2013

The Big D and I have been working hard at coding an android app with Tacx Bushido support. The current state is that we have a working app (albeit with a few rough edges) that can simulate GPX courses. So it is with great pleasure that we release a preview (source code now up):

It is worth pointing out that you can run this in VirtualBox on windows/max/linux using android x86 (android-x86.org). I use android-x86-4.0-RC2-eeepc.iso for testing.

You will need to enable:

Feature requests welcome.

` <http://cowboycoders.org/cyclismo-change-log/>`__

In other news, BerryS has reversed a few more nuggets of the Bushido Headunit protocol (see the wiki). We now know about long/medium button presses, the device serial and the user's weight. Cheers BerryS!

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Posted by Will on Sat 02 February 2013

I have rewritten python-ant by Martín Raúl Villalb in Java. There are presently two drivers: one is a wrapper around Dynastreams own ant library for Android and the other is a javax.usb driver for ANT+ usb sticks. This allows code to be be prototyped on a development machine before adding the android specific stuff.

Features:

• Most ANT messages have been mapped to a class, and if configurable, contain methods to adjust those configuration options.
• Easily add listeners to individual channels with message-type filtering
• Utility methods to wait for a response (with timeouts) to any message sent to the ant chip
• Burst message helper function (send bursts by simply passing a byte []) - will throw an exception if transmission fails

Grab it from : https://github.com/cowboy-coders/JFormica

Here is a code sample:

class Listener implements  BroadcastListener{

@Override
public void receiveMessage(BroadcastDataMessage message) {
System.out.println("Heart rate: " + message.getData()[7]);
}

}

public void test_hrm() throws InterruptedException, TimeoutException {

// first usb ant-stick
AntTransceiver antchip = new AntTransceiver(0);

Node n = new Node(antchip);

NetworkKey key = new NetworkKey(0xB9,0xA5,0x21,0xFB,0xBD,0x72,0xC3,0x45);
key.setName("N:ANT+");

n.start();
n.reset();

// sets network key of network zero
n.setNetworkKey(0, key);

Channel c;
c = n.getFreeChannel();

c.setName("C:HRM");

ChannelType channelType = new SlaveChannelType();

c.assign("N:ANT+", channelType);

c.registerRxListener(new Listener(), BroadcastDataMessage.class);

c.setId(0, 120, 0, false);

c.setFrequency(57);

c.setPeriod(8070);

c.setSearchTimeout(255);

c.open();

Thread.sleep(10000);

c.close();
c.unassign();

//return the channel to the pool of available channels
n.freeChannel(c);

n.stop();

}

Posted by Will on Thu 03 January 2013

Posted by Will on Wed 24 October 2012

Please Note: I noticed a few people were having trouble with the Angstrom build using Doug's article, so I thought I'd post the exact method I used (which seemed to work!) so others can retrace my steps with out confusing anyone by editing the previous article! If you have already successfully baked an Angstrom image please ignore this post!

First off I'd like to point out that this article is essentially an amalgamation of the Open Embedded Wiki (Getting Started) and Angstrom's 'Building Angstrom' articles but in context relating to the mini2440 Embedded PC. If you would like a more detailed and probably better written explanation please refer to these two articles.

Make sure you have the packages needed for Open Embedded(OE) by visiting here and looking under the section relating to your distro. Running fedora 11 I did:

su -c "yum install python m4 make wget curl ftp cvs subversion tar bzip2 gzip unzip
python-psyco perl texinfo texi2html diffstat openjade docbook-style-dsssl
docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds docbook-utils sed bison bc glibc-devel glibc-static
gcc binutils pcre pcre-devel git quilt groff linuxdoc-tools patch linuxdoc-tools
gcc-c++ help2man perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker"

Getting down to business...

Open up a terminal. Issue these commands:

su -
mkdir -p /stuff2/build/conf
chmod 777 -Rf /stuff2/
exit
cd /stuff2/

Download latest bitbake from here and extract the bitbake directory in the archive (eg. bitbake-1.8.16) to /stuff2/

A few more commands:

mv bitbake-1.8.16/ bitbake
git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded
cp openembedded/conf/local.conf.sample build/conf/local.conf

Edit the config you have just copied using your favourite text editor.

gedit build/conf/local.conf

It is important that you read the config carefully so that you understand what everything does...

Next edit it to look something like this (which is just a slightly modified version of openembedded/contrib/angstrom/local.conf) :

Note: Do not copy and paste from this article due to formatting issues. You can download a pre-made local.conf here.Just extract to /stuff2/build/conf/ ...

MACHINE = "mini2440"

# Where to store sources
DL_DIR = "/stuff2/downloads"

INHERIT += " rm_work "

# Make sure you have these installed
ASSUME_PROVIDED += "gdk-pixbuf-csource-native imagemagick-native librsvg-native"

# Which files do we want to parse:
BBFILES := "/stuff2/openembedded/recipes/\*/\*.bb"
BBMASK = ""

# What kind of images do we want?
IMAGE_FSTYPES += " tar.bz2 "

# Set TMPDIR instead of defaulting it to $pwd/tmp
TMPDIR = "/stuff2/${DISTRO}-dev"

# Make use of SMP and fast disks
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j2"
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2"

#tinderbox
#INHERIT += "oestats-client"
OESTATS_BUILDER = "myname"

DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"

Save and exit the editor. Download this script and move it to the directory /stuff2/ .

Check it is ok:

gedit /stuff2/source-me.txt

It should look something like this:

export OETREE="/stuff2"
export PATH=/stuff2/bitbake/bin:$PATH
BBPATH=${OETREE}/:${OETREE}/build/:${OETREE}/openembedded/
PKGDIR=${OETREE}/build/
DL_DIR=${OETREE}/downloads
echo Setting up dev env for Ångström

if [ -z ${ORG_PATH} ] ; then
ORG_PATH=${PATH}
export ORG_PATH
fi

if [ -z ${ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH} ] ; then
ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi

PATH=${OETREE}/openembedded/bitbake/bin:${ORG_PATH}

cd $PKGDIR

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH BBPATH
export LANG=C
export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="MACHINE DISTRO OETREE ANGSTROM_MODE ANGSTROMLIBC LIBC"

echo "Altered environment for OE Development"

save, and start the script:

cd /stuff2/
source source-me.txt

cd ../openembedded

one last update:

git pull

Issue a few commands to fix build issues:

su
sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=0
setenforce 0 (Fixes an SELINUX problem during building)
exit

issue build commands:

bitbake base-image ; bitbake console-image ; bitbake x11-image

Be prepared to saturate your internet connection, wait a long time and take up a lot of disk space! The result ends up in:

stuff2/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/mini2440

You should have the image(s) in .jffs2 for flashing and .tar.gz for mounting using NFS.

Posted by Will on Thu 05 November 2009