Beaglebone black PWM minimum frequency

By trial and error, I just figured out that 1 billion is the longest period you can set for (at least this particular) PWM channel.

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000000000 > period

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000000001 > period 

bash: echo: write error: Numerical result out of range

The value is in nanoseconds, so that gives a minimum frequency of 1Hz for PWM on beaglebone black.

Also note that it won't let you set the period lower than the duty cycle setting (which we should really call the pulse width instead):

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 2000 > duty

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000 > period 

bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 500 > duty

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000 > period 

Connect beaglebone black to android via USB OTG

With the right USB OTG cables, I was able to connect my Nexus 5X to a beaglebone black and a beaglebone green.  I had to try several cables before the beaglebone would power up; I suspect it's the USB-C adapter that's the most problematic.  This is the USB-C OTG cable that worked.

Once the board booted, I got a notification on my phone about the beaglebone USB storage device becoming available.  But I wanted to send data back and forth between an android app and a beaglebone process, so the network interface was the important thing to me.

When I connect the beaglebone to my PC, it shows up as a USB ethernet adapter, and I can talk to it at 192.168.7.2.  I downloaded an android app called "Terminal Emulator", and when I ran "ifconfig" I could see that I had an eth0 device with IP 192.168.7.1.  But I couldn't connect to it.

But if I turn on airplane mode, oddly, I can connect just fine by putting "192.168.7.2" in the address bar of the browser.  I haven't figured out yet whether it's possible to have LTE or Wifi on and still reach the beaglebone; perhaps it's just something to do with the IP addresses used by the Wifi or beaglebone.