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Hermes-BBB/Botic cape for BeagleBone Black

Putting together BBB/Hermes/Cronos/Rhea/B3 feels to me a little like the reinvention of the wheel with necessary information spread in several threads. Good documentation like Leon’s integration guide would be very helpful. Will such documentation become available?
I have my stuff laying around now for 2 months in the hope of documentation becoming available.

Peter
 
Hi Russ, thanks for the quick reply! (and the great products!)

Then I will start putting things together and see where I get stuck……

I think pretty basic documentation would already be very helpful. For example a drawing with a short description of every connector and jumper. This could also prevent you from having to answer questions over and over again.

For example: I have a 45.158/49.152 Rhea pair. Which is X1 and which X2?

Peter
 
Understand - I will work something up.

The difficulty is that you are endeavoring to work with multiple modules. So you what is required is some documentation for each (already exists in the form of specification on the first pages of the threads - but can be much better) as well as a guide to setting up the most common combinations.

Cheers!
Russ
 
I'm working on a BIIISE build with the Hermes-BBB and Cronus and was curious if there are any downsides (or benefits) to using one Reflektor-D to power the Buffalo, Cronus, and Hermes clean-side versus having two separate supplies: one for the DAC and one for Cronus + Hermes.

If it makes a difference, my current plan is to run the DAC in synchronous mode.
 
Finally got I2C working with rotary encoder for volume control 🙂
The only thing missing now is to figure out how to control IP_S on B3SE.
Is it ok to use a GPIO directly, or is it a bad idea since it will break the isolation between BBB and dac? Any better solution?