Tachyon update post

Hi folks!

I wanted to get this out before the long weekend.

This will be where future updates and feature announcement will be made. During the last couple of weeks engineering has been working on a couple of exciting new features, and testing hardware additions. As the Digi/Particle integration continues, other folks will start jumping in as well.

Current items:

  • My team has a laundry list of documentation items that will be worked on in partnership with engineering.
  • Tachyon 1.2 is being finalised - I have several names for testers already.

Yes, the post is light on detail today, but it should not stay that way.

Feel free to comment or ask questions, but please keep things constructive.
Feature requests should be reasonable (no nuclear power options for example) and will be shared with the product team.

Hi Chris

So glad to hear there’s been progress, I am testing your 1.2 re using the github/composer and seems to build without issue. But when flashing it stops early in the process with cannot find misc partition! Tried both headless and desktop versions.

Ive had to factory reset to get it to load 20.04

Would appreciate any help or if you have an image then I’d be happy to test.

Passed this along to engineering!

If I could request a firmware update...I'm building a project on the Tachyon and trying to use the 120° wide-angle M12 version of the Arducam 16MP IMX519 camera (Amazon ASIN B0C53BBMLG).

The standard autofocus IMX519 module (B0B3XBQM9Z) streams fine, but this 120° manual focus version fails during QMMF init with CAM_ERR: CAM-CSIPHY: CSID 2 err 0x20 phy 3 in dmesg. It looks like the driver is looking for the VCM autofocus actuator (cam-actuator0) from the standard module, and errors out when it can't find the motor IC over I2C

Is there any chance we could get a device tree overlay or OS update that supports IMX519 modules without the VCM actuator?

I see lots of activity for the 20.04 version, but not for 24.04???
Hence I still can't install the image created using the composer due to the new partitions, that's the main issue there seems to be no updated configuration for the partitioning.
Can you please provide an update and timeline for 24.04?