Getting Started with Beaglebone Blue

Beaglebone blue [source from seedstudio]

Get Connected to Your Board

BeagleBoard.org has great start-up instructions. Under the support section, click “getting started”.  Follow the three steps outlined on this page:
  1. Plug in your Blue with USB
  2. Download and install drivers ( find the drive here)
  3. Navigate to the web server on your BBBLUE ( http://192.168.7.2) 
You should see a green box at the top of the screen that tells you you’ve successfully connected to your Blue.

 If you are on Ubuntu you can ssh to the BBBlue by typing

 ssh debian@192.168.7.2

The default user name for BBBlue is debian and the password is temppwd. Then
check the BBBlue version by typing uname -a

 debian@beaglebone:~$ uname -a  
 Linux beaglebone 4.4.49-ti-r89 #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 20:59:06 UTC 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

Connect to the Internet

The Blue has the hardware and software features of the Robotics Cape integrated, so we will need to use the commands available in the roboticscape package.  To enable robotic package we need to connect the BBBlue to internet first.Type connmanctl to configure your wifi.

 debian@beaglebone:~$ connmanctl  
 connmanctl> enable wifi  
 Error wifi: Already enabled  
 connmanctl> tether wifi disable  
 Error disabling wifi tethering: Already disabled  
 connmanctl> scan  
 Error 'scan': Invalid argument  
 connmanctl> services  
 connmanctl> agent on  
 Agent registered  
 connmanctl> connect wifi_f45xxxx  
 Agent RequestInput wifi_f45xxx  
  Passphrase = [ Type=psk, Requirement=mandatory ]  
 Passphrase? <your password>  
 Connected wifi_f45xxx  
 connmanctl> quit

You are now connected to the internet!  Verify your connection by pinging a common website like google.com and checking for incoming and outgoing packets.  
 debian@beaglebone:~$ ping google.com

If all is well, bring your BBBlue up to date with these commands: 

 debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get update  
 debian@beaglebone:~$sudo apt-get upgrade

This will take quite a while the first time you do this, but updates all packages and brings your Blue fully up to speed.  The most important packages to update are roboticscape and git.

From image above you can choose any program to run after booting. After you select , the current roboticscape driver will be installed

 You can check the rc version after upgrade the BBBlue

 debian@beaglebone:~$ rc_version  
 0.3.4
The Blue has dedicated memory available to store an operating system, so it will boot up with Linux (Debian, Jessie) without the use of an SD Card image.



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