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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 05:54:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I found a box at ewaste. It's got a serial port (or at least a DB9) on one side, and then what looks like a raspi on the other. So I grabbed it, thinking it was just another raspi-in-a-box and those are always handy.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 05:58:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The bottom says it's a Wrong Way Module by ISS Inc.
     And it runs off 5v? sounds Raspi to me!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:01:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Nope... that's not a raspi.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:08:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     For some reason, there's two serial ports, and one of them is glued inside the case. You can't use it.
     Why is it even here? Are they just reusing an existing cable?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:11:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So it turns out this is a boundary devices NITROGEN6-REV4.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:25:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So I went and found a datasheet. It's a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 running at 1ghz, with 1 gigabyte of RAM.
     It's got SATA and PCIe and ethernet, USB, it can decode H.264 in hardware... this is a pretty generic SBC.

     The board was designed in 2012, but this is a 2015 revision of it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:37:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/986/Boundary_Nitrogen6X-3193544.pdf

     fun things in the datasheet: You can get PCIe over 10 pins (3 of which are grounds!). That's pretty low pin count!

     Also: one of the connectors is for "Android buttons". On/Back/Home/Menu/Volume Up/Down. This is just a chip off a phone, but they put it in an SBC formfactor.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:40:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I've misplaced my microSD card reader so I can't image the card yet.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:47:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so I found the product:
     It's the Wrong Way Alerting Solution by Image Sensing Solutions:

     https://www.imagesensing.com/assets/documents/products/wrongway/wrong-way-ltr.pdf

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:48:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     apparently this talks to a camera and analyzes the footage: if a car drives the wrong way down a road, it can send you email/SMS alerts.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:51:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The manual shows it used with some other parts: an IO module and some DIN mounts.

     It just talks to an IP camera so that's not part of this kit.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:56:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     https://www.imagesensing.com/assets/documents/products/AID/wrong-way-alerting-solution-user-guide.pdf

     You can also have the device set up to start an RTSP stream at you when it detects wrong-way-driving, so you could have a monitor set up that just plays when people drive the wrong way.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:58:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     god this is the worst type of manual.
     It's the kind where you can tell there was a contract line item that said "all functions must be documented" so they did just that (and only that) in the manual.
     It just goes through every single screen and every single textbox and button on them. it doesn't really help anyone.

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:09:17 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     @foone lowest you can go for pcie is 5

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:09:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark now I'm wondering if anyone has run PCIe over a 5-pin mini-USB cable