Chilli Plant Automation Begins
Just a very brief update to advise that I have purchased and built a VELLEMAN USB I/O controller board.
After nearly 20 years I can still solder !!
The board is attached to a linux box running Ubuntu and I downloaded and built the drivers.Two files are needed to get up and running:
Instructions
1. Unpack libusb into a folder and cd into it.
2. ./configure – this will checkout your system and setup the various dependencies needed to build
3. make – this will build the library.
4. sudo make install – this will install the library.
5. Unpack libk8055 into another folder and cd into the src directory.
6. Repeat the same instructions as before firstly doing ./configure then make and finally sudo make install
7. Next you need to configure udev so you machine recognised the board. To do this add the following to a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/40-k8055.rules
# udev rules file for Velleman K8055 USB Experiment Interface Board
#
SUBSYSTEMS!=“usb”, ACTION!=“add”, GOTO=“k8055_rules_end”# The K8055 device, including all jumper configurations
ATTRS{idVendor}==“10cf”, ATTRS{idProduct}==“5500″, GROUP=“k8055″, MODE=“0660″
ATTRS{idVendor}==“10cf”, ATTRS{idProduct}==“5501″, GROUP=“k8055″, MODE=“0660″
ATTRS{idVendor}==“10cf”, ATTRS{idProduct}==“5502″, GROUP=“k8055″, MODE=“0660″
ATTRS{idVendor}==“10cf”, ATTRS{idProduct}==“5503″, GROUP=“k8055″, MODE=“0660″
MODE="0666", OWNER="mick", GROUP="k8055"
LABEL=“k8055_rules_end”
8. To apply this file enter sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
9. You should now be able to speak with your card. On the board there are jumpers sk5 & sk6 which indicted the ID of your board. But assuming both jumpers are in (ID:0). Then type in k8055 -p:0 will get the board to report back to you. Sending commands like k8055 -p:0 d:255 will turn on all the digital outputs.