Maix Amigo support

[stepansnigirev]

Hi! Great project!
Do you think it might be possible to make krux compatible with Maix Amigo?
It is a pretty cheap devboard that has a large screen with touch, camera and SD card slot.
MCU is the same as in M5StickV - K210.
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Maix-Amigo-p-4689.html

[ghost]

Interesting! Yes, that should be possible. It probably wouldn't take a ton of effort to add support in the firmware for it, however, the experience on that device would likely be subpar without additional effort.

Krux's UI / input logic right now is unfortunately tightly coupled with the M5StickV and wouldn't take advantage of the extra screen space in a smart way, and it definitely wouldn't support touch input/buttons without some work. The build process would also need to now take the device into account when deciding which 'project' to build the firmware for, etc.

I'll need to get my hands on one of these devices and see what I can do.

[valerio-vaccaro]

Nice project,
patched maixpy firmware is running on amigo (need some fix on cmake flags like for m5stickv and same builtin python files)
Some fix needed in buttons definition/screen/etc, menu crash with an "out of memory alert" but i think we can reduce the display allocated buffer.
In next days i think i will create a branch for amigo boards.

[ghost]

@valerio-vaccaro I have an Amigo now to test with if you're still planning on putting up a PR! Hope the recent changes in main don't make this too much of a headache 😅

Until then, I'm focused on this issue and will circle back to this after that's complete

[ghost]

Just dropping in here to note that I haven't forgotten about this! A few weeks ago I built the firmware for this device and tried to test it out, but I ran into problems flashing it with kflash, so I switched my focus to other issues.

@valerio-vaccaro What did you end up using to flash it to the device?

Also, is the power button on the Amigo fake or did they just send me a broken device? 🤣

Anyway, I filed another issue related to this to move away from MaixPy and toward plain MicroPython so that Krux can stay up to date and more easily support other architectures/devices in the future: #39

[valerio-vaccaro]

I think I have to find out some hours and try to work a bit more on this. I flashed the device in the same manner used for m5stickv.
Power button will not work so easily because is controlled from a different AXP chip (a not well documented power management chip used by m5).
I agree on move to a standard MicroPython (maybe adding driver and libs from maixpy project).