Barton on RDK-B

Scope

Ultimate goal is to bringup barton in RDK-B and make it available for community as IoT reference

Key insights

• Platform selection
• Vendor integration
• OSS component support
• BartonCore integration
• Reference Application
• Validation with Matter device

Block diagram

• bartcorear

RDK-B IoT Build

• Prelimanary

  • RDK-B Banana Pi R4 - Beta Engineering Release(05 Feb 2025)
• Vendor integration
  • OpenThread & Bluetooth platform integration in BPI R4 with silabs radio
  • https://github.com/rdkcentral/meta-cmf-bananapi/tree/barton
  • Few changes from - https://github.com/rdkcentral/meta-cmf-bananapi/commits/iotyocto/
• Comcast recipe changes 
  • For testing alone.we manually added changes & customized
  • Add missing changes like gn
• linenoise upstep 
• update ssid and password in  reference/src/reference-network-credentials-provider.c & recompile 
• My yocto
  • barton-exp-recipes.docx
• Update image install

  • +IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " parodus parodus2ccsp cpcd otbr-agent bluez5-bluetoothd bt-host-cpc-hci-bridge opkg opkg-utils xz barton"

Verification of barton in RDK-B

• mkdir /nvram/icontrol
• Make sure we have below services up and running
  • cpcd
  • otbr-agent
  • bt-host-cpc-hci-bridge-attach.service
  • bt-host-cpc-hci-bridge.service
• mkdir  -p /home/root/.brtn-ds

• start this application brtn-ds-reference

Matter onboarding stages Barton

• MatterBarton

Vendor integration

• Silabs radio integration

  • OpenThread & Bluetooth platform integration in BPI R4 with silabs radio

OSS component support

• linenoise upstep

  • Revision details
    • https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/commit/d895173d679be70bcd8b23041fff3e458e1a3506
    • Recipe changes
      • linenoise
      • Note:depending on usage please include 001 patch too
  • File location

    • /home/cpokur625/BI/meta-rdk-ext/recipes-support/linenoise