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The goal of this wiki is to gather information about the Reciva 'Barracuda' Reciva radio module, in order to understand enough of the hardware to be able to provide alternative firmware.

If you think you can add anything to this project, feel free to use this wiki to share your information.

Alternative firmware wishlish

• No dependency on Reciva's database and servers
• Support for additional codecs and protocols
• ...

Roadmap

This list describes the things that would be needed to create a platform on which an alternative firmware implementation could be provided, roughly in the right order.

• Creating an inventory of the components on the Barracuda board and their functions, and gathering technical information about these componentes where available.

• Find out what the testpads on the Barracuda PCB do - Identifying JTAG and UART would be really helpful here.

• Get a linux (console) shell to work on the current firmware to be able to get info about how the official software connects to the hardware

• Figure out which pieces are missing to drive the hardware - Does Reciva provide drivers to all hardware ? Is a bootloader provided ?

• Try to put as much pieces of the provided GPL code together to get a basic OS up and running. Find out how much Reciva added or modified of the original software packages.

• Get all the hardware components working: GPIO, LCD display, LEDs, buttons, usb, network, audio

References to more information

Pieces of info about the barracude module :

• PDF from reciva describing basic functionality
• More info on Reciva site

Other attempts to understanding the Barracuda

• IR100 internal

GPL software components

• archives with GPL software used by Reciva.