Oliver
4 September 2020 03:27
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Hi All,
Just an update, we’ve recently received some information from another customer who’s been looking for a way to setup Auto Booting on their Argon One case:
It turns out that I was fortunate to get one of the units that the manufacturer shipped with a beta firmware to enable the feature.
This is what I got from the manufacturer:
The “Always-on” function was never really a feature of the initial design of the Argon ONE but we did come out with some beta boards for testing this feature. Those were manufactured in 2020 and were distributed randomly. That’s why we decided to share the code in GitHub for the “Always-on” function.
We recommend entering this command in the command prompt to boot the case automatically:
i2cset -y 1 0x01a 0xfe
Unfortunately, if the code doesn’t work, it means that you have the original power board which does not support this feature. There also isn’t any option to update the firmware.
However, we will be releasing a new version of the Argon One though that streamlines automatic booting by Q4 of 2020.
I tried it initially and it didn’t seem to work.
I was about to give up on it today and realised that there is a 100 second delay before the unit boots up again.
It’s worth giving this a shot to see if you’re lucky enough to have one of the beta boards!
Regards,
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