Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/4/2017 12:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:31:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> But aren't the huge majority of the wireless keyboards and mice just >>> BT at the core? Max reliable range when the dong

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 12:37:13PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > But unless they are sneaking in under the FCC's radar, which they aren't > else customs would padlock the container, it does have to be an FCC > approved frequency and protocol in order to be able to label it with an > FCC iD # of J

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Alan Corey
2 meters is pretty dead around here lately, using it as test signals for my SDR. I use the NOAA weather transmitters around 162 MHz instead. Yep, I had a 1st phone too, got it around 1976, gave it up about 1982 because it got me nothing but minimum wage jobs and then I spent 26 years working for

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 September 2017 18:22:53 Alan Corey wrote: > > But unless they are sneaking in under the FCC's radar, which they > > aren't else customs would padlock the container, it does have to be > > an FCC approved frequency and protocol in order to be able to label > > it with an > > Actually,

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 September 2017 13:26:46 Alan Corey wrote: > Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Unifying_receiver > It's sort of like Bluetooth without pairing. Not sure about the FCC > part but it's 2.4 GHz like Bluetooth or WiFi. > This mentioned solaar, so I installed it, big dbus mi

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Alan Corey
> But unless they are sneaking in under the FCC's radar, which they aren't > else customs would padlock the container, it does have to be an FCC > approved frequency and protocol in order to be able to label it with an Actually, that's a good question since there's a ham band from 2300-2450 which

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Alan Corey
Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Unifying_receiver It's sort of like Bluetooth without pairing. Not sure about the FCC part but it's 2.4 GHz like Bluetooth or WiFi. On 9/4/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 28,

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:31:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But aren't the huge majority of the wireless keyboards and mice just > > BT at the core? Max reliable range when the dongles can see the > > master is about 20 feet. I

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Alan Corey
It's an odd mishmash as I recall, there's a standard (theirs I think) called "unifying" and there's some support for that outside of Logitech's stuff. There are also Bluetooth and a few that are switchable. I looked at it last in April by this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:31:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > But aren't the huge majority of the wireless keyboards and mice just BT > at the core? Max reliable range when the dongles can see the master is > about 20 feet. I put the mouse in the box the pi is in, and had BT do a > scan with

Re: Bug#873866: tophat: Please add arm64

2017-09-04 Thread Wookey
On 2017-09-04 10:06 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Edmund, > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:37:38PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > > It seems to be possible to build this package on arm64. > > Is there any reason why it would not work on arm64? > > It might be that tophat builds on other ar

Re: Bug#873866: tophat: Please add arm64

2017-09-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Edmund, On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:37:38PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > It seems to be possible to build this package on arm64. > Is there any reason why it would not work on arm64? It might be that tophat builds on other architectures but it Depends bowtie2 | bowtie and these are only