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Does Huawei really have a Google alternative that it is about to unleash? It seems we may be about to find out. One of the company’s execs has reportedly claimed that replacements for Google apps, including mail, messaging, maps and payments, as well as key underlying services will be ready soon. This follows other claims last week that the forthcoming flagship, the P40, which is due to launch in March, will ship with the company’s Google replacement services onboard. Nothing is yet confirmed, but speculation is rife ahead of the company’s 2020 product launches.
The latest claims come from Huawei’s consumer head in India, Charles Peng, who was quoted in the country’s Economic Times on December 24 saying that "we have our own HMS and are trying to build a mobile ecosystem. Most of the key apps, such as navigation, payments, gaming and messaging will be ready soon.” Originally, the article suggested this might mean as soon as the end of December—this seemed overly optimistic and was corrected. Peng’s reported claim that “consumers won't see a difference between GMS and HMS,” remains optimistic. Google Mobile Services is the licensed software that turns open source Android into the full-fat variant. HMS is Huawei’s alternative.
According to the Economic Times, Huawei, along with its sister brand Honor, has engaged with India’s app developers to splash cash from its $1 billion fighting fund to morph Google apps onto the HMS equivalent. “We are focusing on how to work with developers to offer a good customer experience,” Peng said. “It is a challenge that we are trying to address.” That challenge cannot be understated. Shifting regular apps to a new platform is one thing—a question of scale, but replacing native access to Gmail, YouTube, Google Pay and Google Drive is another.
Peng was also reported to say that the vast Indian developer base—alongside Chinese equivalents—will help the company deliver its HMS alternative in other regions as well, including Europe. “In every country,” Peng told the Economic Times, “we will focus on bringing the top 100-150 apps to customers through HMS—we will create an end-to-end business model with developers, content and service providers.”
This is a key test for Huawei. The lack of Google has become the poster child for U.S. sanctions against the company, and without a viable alternative it cannot compete in the international (non-Chinese) market where consumers expect the full Android experience. A week ago, Huawei’s global smartphone head, Richard Yu, told French media that the new P40 will launch in at the end of March. The exec also said that the P40 will succeed without Google, it will fill the Google-shaped gap with its in-house alternative. According to the French media reports, this meant Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) would be ready and onboard.
What exactly this all means—including the intriguing “most apps” as articulated by Peng and a lack of specifics from Yu—we will find out in the next few weeks. Shortly after the blacklist hit in May, Yu promised the launch of an in-house Huawei operating system for the company’s smartphones—either late this year or early next. The new OS would run Google apps, only faster. Nothing of the sort has happened as yet. And then when the Mate 30 launched in September, Yu told the media there would be a semi-official workaround for Google. Again, nothing. Third time lucky, maybe.
On the assumption that Huawei’s Google alternative is available in the next few weeks, then the real battle begins—to persuade millions of consumers to make the switch. According to reports on internal sales numbers, Huawei has seen growth tail off in the all-important holiday fourth-quarter. It will struggle to maintain its smartphone sales trajectory if it follows the Mate 30 with another flagship product launch that fails to successfully answer the Google question. A worse result, though, will be launching a solution and finding that it falls flat. No easy options for the comp

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Xperienx:
I have been looking for something like this and wonder why i'm seeing this late.
My ultimate goal in life is ml and ai, started learning html, css, js last year and php, python this year. I have played around with C / C++, Assembly but just for fun. My major challenge in the Robotics field is the resource needed which has delayed my progress as i aimed to might have built my first AI powered App this year. But certainly, that would be next year. If theres any way your organization could assist me to contribute to the world, i will be grateful.

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ugwum007:
nice. Seems you are into electronics embedded design

Yes

Finally, I have succeeded in installing the stupid openCV 4 on my raspberry pi. I am now fully armed and dangerous + ready to perform computer vision and image processing.

ugwum007:
There is a link in my message

Ok I have seen the link. I have been following that guy's tutorial since and no success yet. That guy is pro in deep learning and image processing. I think one of the mistakes I make is that I installed raspbian OS through NOOB. I have formatted my sd card and reinstalled the raspbian through the raspbian image file. I have send the make command and right now it is at 69%.

ugwum007:
here is the link: install opencv4 on RPi but you have to be patient cos it takes quite some time to complete and follow the steps strictly.

Where is the link?

ugwum007:
I am quite happy that Nigerians are now going into this field but I have one advice for anyone who is interested in AI and the advice is to throw away your windows oS PC and switch to linux preferably Ubuntu.
I have done some small things with regards to AI (very small) but these days, I am mostly interested in building Chatbots (thats my new hobby till these year ends).
I have also dipped my hands in computer vision using opencv on raspberry pi and linux system. I wish it will continue to grow.

how did you install the opencv on raspberry pi. Any link?

Am in...

Please has anyone successfully installed opencv on Raspberry Pi. If yes, can you direct me on how you did it or the link to the resources you applied.
I have been battling with this for some days now...

okwuiagada:
I am setting up an IoT incubator. Engineers with experience in embedded systems, Proteus circuit design and simulation, circuit design etc are welcome to apply for positions. We will also be taking on IoT entrepreneurs.

hmm

Example 1: Blink an LED
Circuit Connection
LED thru a 330 ohm resistor to Pin D1

If you're. following this thread, get ready more topics are coming.

DHT11 Pins Connection:

Pin 1 >>> VCC (3V to 5V)
Pin 2 >>> Data OUT
Pin 3 >>> Don’t connect
Pin 4 >>> GND

Source code
We will use a DHT sensor Library for this project:

Installing the DHT sensor library
1. Download the adafruit DHT Sensor library from here: https://github.com/adafruit/DHT-sensor-library. You should have a .zip folder in your Downloads folder
2. Unzip the .zip folder and you should get DHT-sensor-library-master folder
3. Rename your folder from DHT-sensor-library-master to DHT_sensor_library (you really need to replace those "-" with "_"
4. Move the DHT_sensor_library folder to your Arduino IDE installation
libraries folder
5. Re-open your Arduino IDE
6. Go to Files / Examples / DHT_SENSOR_LIB / DHT Tester
Upload the code

DHT11 & DHT22 Temperature and Humidity Sensor with Arduino
The DHT sensors are inexpensive sensors for measuring temperature and humidity. These sensors contain a chip that does analog to digital conversion and spits out a digital signal with the temperature and humidity.
These signals are easy to read with any microcontroller (MCU).

Specifications for DHT11 and DHT22
There are two versions of the DHT sensor.

DHT11

Range: 20-90%
Absolute accuracy: ±5%
Repeatability: ±1%
Long term stability: ±1% per year

DHT22

Range: 0-100%
Absolute accuracy: ±2%
Repeatability: ±1%
Long term stability: ±0.5% per year

As you can see from the specs above, the DHT22 is a bit more accurate.

princefemo01:
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brisstone:
Please who have an idea where I can learn Arduino programming in Ilorin, Kwara state.?

Contact us we can help you...

Here’s the connections:

RX -> TX
TX -> RX
CH_PD -> 3.3V
GPIO 0 -> GND
VCC -> 3.3V
GND -> GND

Note: the circuit above has GPIO 0 connected to GND, that’s because we want to upload code. When you upload a new sketch into your ESP it requires the ESP to flash a new firmware. In normal usage (if you’re not flashing your ESP with a new firmware) it would be connected to VCC.
If you have a brand new FTDI Programmer and you need to install the FTDI drivers on Windows PC, visit this website for the official drivers:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

Follow the circuit in the figure below to connect your ESP to your FTDI Programmer to establish a serial communication.

Important: most FTDI Programmers have a jumper to convert from 5V to 3.3V. Make sure your FTDI Programmer is set to 3.3V operation (as shown in the following figure).

Option B - Uploading code to ESP-01
Uploading code to the ESP-01 requires establishing a serial communication between your ESP8266 and a FTDI Programmer.

Uploading Code to ESP8266
There are two different ways to upload code to your ESP8266. If you’re using an ESP-12E that has built-in programmer read Option A.
If you’re using the ESP-01, you need an FTDI programmer - read Option B.

Option A - Uploading code to ESP-12E
Upload code to your ESP-12E NodeMCU Kit is very simple, since it has builtin
programmer. You plug your board to your computer and you don’t need to make any additional connections.

Look at the Tools menu, select Board “NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)”

Writing Your Arduino Sketch
The sketch for blinking an LED is very simple.

int pin = 5;

void setup() {
  // initialize GPIO 5 as an output.
  pinMode(pin, OUTPUT);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() { 
  digitalWrite(pin, HIGH);   // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
   delay(1000);               // wait for a second
  digitalWrite(pin, LOW);    // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
  delay(1000);               // wait for a second
}

Important: in the next section called “Writing Your Arduino Sketch” when we
define:
pin = 0
we are referring to GPIO 0, and if we define:
pin = 5
we are referring to GPIO 5 which is connected to pin D1.

This is how this firmware is internally defined. You don’t need to worry about this, simply remember that 0 refers to GPIO 0 and 5 refers to GPIO 5

About GPIOs Assignment
Use the next table as a quick reference on how to assign the ESP8266 GPIOs in the Arduino code.

Blinking LED with Arduino IDE
In this Unit you’re going to design a simple circuit to blink an LED with the ESP using Arduino IDE.
Why do we always blink an LED first? That’s a great question! If you can blink an LED you can pretty much say that you can turn any electronic device on or off. Whether is an LED, a lamp or your fan.

7) Finally, re-open your Arduino IDE to ensure that it launches with the new boards installed

5) Open the Arduino Tools menu
6) Select Board > NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)