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* BME process/file is called <code>/usr/sbin/bme_RX-51</code> and killing or sigstop'ing it will cause immediate or delayed reboot. It is easily suspended though through upstart process management by:<br /><pre>~>stop bme</pre>and resumed any time by:<br /><pre>~>start bme</pre> | * BME process/file is called <code>/usr/sbin/bme_RX-51</code> and killing or sigstop'ing it will cause immediate or delayed reboot. It is easily suspended though through upstart process management by:<br /><pre>~>stop bme</pre>and resumed any time by:<br /><pre>~>start bme</pre> | ||
- | A nice little experiment to investigate the | + | A nice little experiment to investigate the bq24150 USB Battery Charger chip's abilities is to |
* plug in Nokia wallwart charger | * plug in Nokia wallwart charger | ||
* <pre>->stop bme</pre> | * <pre>->stop bme</pre> | ||
- | * wait max 32s until | + | * wait max 32s until bq24150 internal watchdog timer expires (due to bme not resetting it), which will cause bq24150 to reset to defaults, which are a mostly sane, safe charging without any software support. You can tell this by bq24150 firing up the hardwired steady yellow indicator LED |
I'm about to write a first draft little script to somewhat replace bme's basic functions, eventually turning this into a real project Just-Replaces-BME aka jrbme (some say it's "JRBME replaces BME", according to an age old tradition of linux self referencing ETLA [like GNU=="GNU Not Unix", KDE=="KDE Desktop Environment"]) | I'm about to write a first draft little script to somewhat replace bme's basic functions, eventually turning this into a real project Just-Replaces-BME aka jrbme (some say it's "JRBME replaces BME", according to an age old tradition of linux self referencing ETLA [like GNU=="GNU Not Unix", KDE=="KDE Desktop Environment"]) |
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