Wake/Power ON by IR Remote & GPIO Pin
Good Morning,
- I would like to Power ON or Wake the Board by IR Remote.
I have an NEC IR controller (same as Odroid) but I cannot find instructions anywhere on how to enable the IR wake or what the code is for wake etc.
Can you please point me in the right direction?
it states: _"Other great features include the IR receiver. You can set the IR receiver to wake the board up with remotes provided you set the software bits up."_
IR Shutdown works in Kodi etc but then I cannot wake the board by IR.
- Is there any way to wake and shutdown this board by GPIO Pin (external button on case)?
Shutdown could be done via scripts I guess but the wake part would be elusive part.
Thank you for any help and for all the time the developers donate to this.
Much appreciated.
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Also interested by this.
Morning,
Unfortunately, unlike the ODROID C2 where absolutely everything about IR and GPIO and Uboot is documented on how to wake/shutdown the device and what IR codes etc or how to modify such codes, I cannot find any documentation on this for Le Potato.
Such a pity.
Fortunately I have an alternative.
Regards
ODROID-C2 is utilizing an old kernel taken from the Amlogic BSP. The Amlogic BSP includes microcode for the co-processor to enable suspend. This is a not a mainline feature and is closed source. You can utilize the Amlogic BSP for AML-S905X-CC and it will support suspend based on the SDK IR codes but being closed, we will not support it.
Thank you loverpi
I think at the end of the it probably would have been wiser for me to know this up front. Unfortunately it is not documented anywhere which makes it difficult if you are a beginner, trying a new product.
After all, you do read all the articles you can (see above about IR) and only afterwards you find out that what was published on your site is not supported.
"Other great features include the IR receiver. You can set the IR receiver to wake the board up with remotes provided you set the software bits up."_
Or is that not a fair assumption of mine?
Regards
@oz_ra You can use CoreELEC and other projects that use the Amlogic SDK. The mainline images will not support it.
@loverpi
Thanks for the info.
Regards
On any of its supported platforms
Le Potato consumes 1W at idle so there's no much power savings to be had unless it is for battery operated scenarios. The problem is that most of the control of this is in the Cortex-M3 co-processor and that is locked off by Amlogic's ATF implementation.