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The purpose of this document is to enable RDK users and developers to be able to bring up the RDK stack and emulator on the PC platform. The document also includes step-by-step procedures to setup & build RDK Emulator

Known Issues

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  • eth0/erouter0  interface <ip address> is failing to connect ssh . But, able to connect  ssh with  host using port forwarding in Network settings of Virtual Box.
  • Client is getting the <ip address> from Emulator . But, not in 10.x.x.x 
  • Failed to open webUI configuration
  • During video playback, performance issues are there due to video scaling.
  • Also In rmfApp , while playing video through hnsource or qamsource , application may crash once EOS is reached.
  • It has been seen that open source package mirror repos may go down temporarily or may be blocked by local corporate firewalls. Please try the build again at a later time or after resolving local firewall issues. One test would be to access the failing url on the web browser and see if the site is up. This can help isolate local issues .

Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Abbreviation/Acronym

Description

RDK

Reference Development Kit

VM

Virtual Machine

VBox

Virtual Box

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

STB

Set Top BoxXRE

Cross-Platform Runtime Environment

HDD

Hard Disk Drive

EOS

End of Stream

SPTS

Single Program Transport Stream

MPTS

Multi-Program Transport Stream

UPNP

Universal Plug and Play

Overview of RDK Emulator

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  • Executes on x86-based platforms including virtualization environments such as Virtual Box and QEMU.
  • Built using Yocto and RDK build frameworks

  • RDK-B Emulator runs RDK-B stack on PC platform, validated through the virtual box based virtualization platform  .

  • Hardware Abstraction Layer supporting Ethernet and Wi-Fi functionalities are introduced to adopt the PC platform.

  • Wi-Fi Hotspot support through external wireless adapter.USB to Ethernet Adapter is used for Ethernet LAN connections.

  • Support of advance configurations like firewall, parental control, WAN Manager and remote management etc ...

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STEP 1: Create your new VM Instance:

  • Open Virtualbox

  • Select New [A popup will come up]

  • Select Type as ‘Linux’

  • Select Version as ‘Other Linux (32 Bit)’

  • Click on “Next”

         


  • Choose a Memory Size of 512 MB

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  • Configure your VMs network settings
  • Choose “Bridged Adapter” mode as shown in the screenshot below

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STEP 3: Run Emulator in Vbox :

  • Boot up your VM by clicking on start
  • Click “start” to launch the Emulator vmdk image
  •  Provide “root” to login Emulator as shown in the screen shot
  •  Emulator usually fetches IP address by default,i.e "ifconfig erouter0"
  •  If if not then assign statically using the commands.
  •  For ex: ifconfig eth0/erouter0 192.168.1.449
  •  route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0/erouter0
  •  Once IP address for Emulator is up, Emulator shall be accessed in the Host PC using the below command

Once you have the IP address you may SSH into your VM from your linux shell console. Use root as the ssh user.

$ ssh root@x.x.x.x

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root@<erouter0 ip>
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root@qemux86broadband:/# ifconfig
br106     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr E6:B3:27:79:E4:79  
          inet addr:192.168.106.1  Bcast:192.168.106.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e4b3:27ff:fe79:e479/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1124 (1.0 KiB)

br403     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3E:7D:94:CE:18:42  
          inet addr:192.168.245.1  Bcast:192.168.245.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3c7d:94ff:fece:1842/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1124 (1.0 KiB)

brebhaul  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr DA:B4:09:16:BD:69  
          inet addr:169.254.85.1  Bcast:169.254.85.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::d8b4:9ff:fe16:bd69/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1124 (1.0 KiB)

brlan0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 42:39:B8:18:9B:F3  
          inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::4039:b8ff:fe18:9bf3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1320 (1.2 KiB)

erouter0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:B4:EB:E3  
          inet addr:192.168.1.49  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb4:ebe3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:17548 (17.1 KiB)  TX bytes:9684 (9.4 KiB)

gre0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1476  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:14866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:763416 (745.5 KiB)  TX bytes:763416 (745.5 KiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  
          inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

STEP 4: Lanching Emulator in WebUI :

  • In the Host-PC Browser, Enter the eth0/erouter0 IP:8080 to get WebUI
    Ex:http://192.168.1.4:808049:8080
  • WebUI Login Credential's
    Username: admin
    Password: password

Launching WebUI App

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  • In the Host-PC Browser, Enter the eth0 /erouter0 IP:8080 to get WebUI
    Ex: http://192.168.1.49:808
  • WebUI Login Credential's
    Username: admin
    Password: password

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RDK-B Environment Setup

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