I wish there was some place or places where common issues and tips and the like were easy to find. I have used several different forums over the years and there are many different ways that the many different forums have done it. Some of the things I personally would benefit people include:
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How to post questions: Questions should include enough details to reproduce the issue. Things like: Which Edison module do you have. What version firmware and IDE are you using? If you are asking about how to hook up to something, try to specify what hardware you are trying to attach, maybe include a link to it... If problem with code, try to include enough code source, such that someone can reproduce it. Also when showing code, try to show in code tags (In advanced editor you can do this by clicking on the >> ) Finally found that a day or two ago...
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How to do some of the common things many of us do when we setup an Edison. Example flow for me:
1) Update the Edison to latest firmware - Note: the current reboot ota does not clear the contents of the PC Edison drive nor root directory on Edison. If you wish to clear everything use the flashall method
2) run the Configure_edison --setup
Go through the steps and setup name and Wifi.
a) My network is setup with the IP addresses in the range: 192.168.2.xxx which conflicts with some usb something so I then:
vi /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/network-gadget-init.service
and change the two lines 192.168.2.15 to something like: 192.168.99.15
I then typically reboot then and setup my Wifi PuTTY for that machine...
EDIT: With new beta
Edit the file: /etc/systemd/network/usb0.network
changed: Address=192.168.2.15/24
to : Address=192.168.99.15/24
3) I configure to use get the recent copies of MRAA
echo "src mraa-upm http://iotdk.intel.com/repos/1.1/intelgalactic" > /etc/opkg/mraa-upm.conf
opkg update
opkg install libmraa0
3a) On Edison to keep the MRAA libraries up to date to use Eclipse
. Right now you can grab the latest tarball from
http://iotdk.intel.com/sdk/mraa-update/, and http://iotdk.intel.com/sdk/upm-update/ respectively and extract it in the IDE folder.
4) There are lots of other packages now available to download fro AlexT, to configure:
set the contents of: /etc/opkg/base-feeds.conf
src/gz all http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/all
src/gz edison http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/edison
src/gz core2-32 http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/core2-32
Then do: opkg update
And then do opkg install xxx
5) You can upgrade many of the packages by first seeing which ones are upgradeable:
opkg update
opkg list-upgradeable
You can then do an upgrade: opkg uprade xxx
Note: if you don't specify a package or packages, it will upgrade all that are upgradeable. However you can run into issues that the root directory gets filled, so see step 6)
6) The boot segment is not setup to use all of the space that was allocated to it, which can cause issues when you try to update to a larger firmware set... Instructions on how to fix this is up at: http://alextgalileo.altervista.org/blog/install-kernel-from-repo-onto-edison-official-image/
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Wish there was some information only like postings. Example Alex_t's repo is great. At times I wish there was a sticky posting that maybe only he and moderators do postings to, which maybe give updated information what is there, any hints/gotchas... And then have another thread where each of us others may make comments, requests...
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Again this is not a complete list of all of the great information that is up on the forums and on the Intel sites. I am just suggesting that it would be great if there was an easy way to setup to make some of the more important information easier to find.
Thanks
Kurt