Joggler Wiki O2
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Introduction
This Joggler Wiki O2 is designed to be a great source of information and tutorials across the internet for the O2 Joggler, we will always give credit for any tutorials we include.
This Wiki will always be free and is supported by the community, if you would like to help:
Please note that anyone may edit the wiki with new findings or information, but you must sign up first
The following links should get you started with the O2 Joggler, using them, you can do all sorts of things, here are just a few suggestions for uses:
- Leave original system on it
- Small MythTV frontend in kitchen, with mythRecipies, mythMusic, cook's timer
- Bedside radio / alarm clock
- System monitor - nagios / opsview
- VOIP client - with suitable USB headset or bluetooth
- Electrical use graph (connected to a Current Cost perhaps via USB to Serial)
- Photo/video frame using smb/nfs to see photos/videos held on central storage
- networked media player (e.g. XBMC)
- Weather station
- In car entertainment
- Front Door Camera/Security System Monitor
- Reinstall OEM software and modify their (Linux Based) OS?
- Asterisk Server and using a pretty slideshow to cover it up?
- daubers' chilli watering system?
- Openstreetmap car satnav (and data collection)
- Shared network whiteboard / doodle pad
- Video magnifier (with handheld LED-lit USB camera)
- Squeezebox Controller
- MythTV frontend & backend with attached external drive and USB freeview receiver. Streaming possible to networked systems.
- [Quake 3] Lan Box ;)
Hacking the original Operating System
The software OS is based around the Ubuntu-2.6.24-19.37 lpia kernel, running Busybox and Xorg with a proprietary flash-based frontend.
System
- Enabling Telnet
- Enabling SSH Daemon
- Enabling SSH SCP Server
- Manual Update/Restore
- SSHFS Easy Guide
- Screendump with xwd
- Mounting the Joggler OS Image
- Writing image files to USB drives
- Updated O2 wireless driver
- Updated busybox (including httpd)
- cifs.ko kernel module for samba mounts
GUI Applications
- Installing Apps
- Apps List
- Radio App
- Watch BBC Channels Live
- Installing Remote Desktop
- Easy installs - 'Pimp My Joggler'
- Easy to follow guide on installing Squeezeplay
- Screensaver brightness & auto-light sensor patch
- Running Opera Mobile web browser
Links
Hacking the hardware
- Probing the hardware
- Hardware list
- Additional USB Ports
- CPU Heatsink Replacement
- Links to possible hardware upgrades
- Disassembling the Joggler
- Replacing the display
- Adding a PATA port
- Connecting to the i2c bus
Hacking the EFI
Linux-Based Operating Systems
The O2 Joggler uses the Efi bootloader, so you can boot from a USB device and install and run linux operating systems
- Linux
- Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix
- Converting an existing UNE for the Joggler
- Using Dysentry's disk image (v1.3a) to install Ubuntu Netbook Edition
- Disca's image
- Tweaks for Ubuntu Netbook Remix Edition 9.10 on the Joggler
- Installing XBMC working with touchscreen atop Disca's image
- Mer Linux
- Ubuntu MID
- MeeGo (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Arch Linux
- openSUSE 11.2
- Fixing network issues
- Adding Swap Space
- Controlling the Backlight
- Using the internal flash to run Linux (or anything else)
- Ubuntu Lucid Experiments
- Installing Debian Squeeze
- Linux Mint on the Joggler
- Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Working
- Android
- Kernel Patches
Windows Operating Systems
Windows is a work-in-progress as it requires a BIOS to boot, whereas the O2 Joggler only has the EFI as its BIOS.