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The build procedure for broadband are as follows:
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It is must to have minimal size of 8GB SD-Card for Firmware upgrade support |
Generated image has to be flashed to an SD card using this command in local PC:
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The Raspberry Pi board is connected to the PC via a USB to serial converter and the logs can be checked in console or can be connected via HDMI cable to a TV and logs will be shown in the terminal
It is necessary to flash the stable image during upgrade. So checksum file has to be created for the image to be uploaded using below command
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After checksum file is created, place this file in tftp location along with actual image file which is expected by firmware upgrade script. Without which firmware upgrade wont be allowed by scripts
If RDKV is flashed for the first time, please ignore below procedure in current section
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8. After applying close size increased to 2 GB can be seen
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http://34.219.243.214:9093/admin |
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→ RPI will support only tftp protocol . No http protocol support is provided yet
1) Create Environment
2) Create Model
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For ex. http://34.219.243.214:9092/xconf/swu/stb?eStbMac=B8:27:EB:F6:70:8C
Configure tftp server and keep the image file and reapective md5 checksum file inside tftp folder. Example given below:
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/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Please find the summary on firmware upgrade explained above
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3. If the user wants to view swupdate.log file then follow below steps:
a) Disable log rotation feature - This wipes out the log file if size exceeds after 1min
For B image command - systemctl disable rdkbLogMonitor
For V image command - systemctl disable logrotation.service
b) Reboot the box - This will make swupdate.service restart and user can start getting swupdate.log both for B and V image
4. Download of Video image(size 592 MB) takes roughly 40 min time and Broadband(size 292MB) image takes roughly 20 min time from Cloud server(Xconf). Broadband to Video or Video to Broadband is taking approx 15 min time to boot up after download from XConf server is completed.
5. Minimum extended partition should be 1GB, to verify multiboot feature.