Introduction

RDK-V IP Client is a IP based Client Set-Top-Box (STB) with RDK 4.0 features which connnects directly with Network Gateways. Targets on Accelerator platforms and utilizes only open-sourced RDK components.

Unused components from MediaClient :

IP STB build is based from medicalient image with out the licensed components and other components which are not required for IP streaming. Some of the components which are removed as of now are,

• dvb
• RMF
• ServiceManager
• dvrmgr
• Moca-HAL
• dtcpmgr
• xupnp
• trm

Host Setup

Refer to the below link for Host Machine Setup

How to Build#SettinguptheHostEnvironment

Yocto Build Setup

All RPi based RDK images with the latest features are from the rdk-next branch

Initializing the Build Environment

To build RDK images from ipstb_bringup branch, follow the below build procedure

mkdir workspace
cd workspace

# initialize the manifest with repo tool
repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b ipstb_bringup -m rdkv-ipstb-nosrc-morty.xml
repo sync -j `nproc` --no-clone-bundle --no-tags

Image build

MACHINE=raspberrypi-rdk-ipmc source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment

bitbake rdk-generic-ipclient-image

Flashing Procedure

The image file will be generated under build-<MACHINE>/tmp/deploy/images/<MACHINE> directory.

eg: $ pwd

build-raspberrypi-rdk-ipmc/tmp/deploy/images/raspberrypi-rdk-ipmc

$ ls -lrt rdk-generic-ip-stb-client_rdk-next_20210914060227.rootfs.rpi-sdimg

-rw-r--r-- 2 dsrava434 dsrava434 478150656 Sep 13 12:33 rdk-generic-ip-stb-client_rdk-next_20210914060227.rootfs.rpi-sdimg

build-raspberrypi-rdk-ipmc/tmp/deploy/images/raspberrypi-rdk-ipmc$ 

For flashing the image use dd command.

eg:   sudo dd if=rdk-generic-ip-stb-client_rdk-next_20210914060227.rootfs.rpi-sdimg of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

[sudo] password for bcpuser149: 

114+0 records in

114+0 records out

478150656 bytes (478 MB, 456 MiB) copied, 7.01847 s, 68.1 MB/s

# Insert the micro SD card to the host system and mention the card's device file name
# input file (if) is the image file to flash and the output file (of) is the card's device file name
sudo dd if=<imagename> of=/dev/<sd file> bs=4M 

System View

Testing Procedure

•  For connecting Controller UI, use URL: http://<machineip>:9998

• Pluggins can be enabled or disabled from controller UI. 

• Wifi related services can be triggered from Wi-Fi tab in controller UI. We can scan and select from available networks.

• For ssh, we can use ssh root@machineip
• For verifying the image details, we can use cat /version.txt command.     

• For playing a video using aamp-cli, launch aamp-cli from terminal, cd /usr/bin;aamp-cli.

•  For playing a video using gstreamer, use gst-launch-1.0.

  eg :- gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=aamp://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/MI201109210084_1/m3u8s/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.m3u8 video-sink=westerossink

•      For launching youtube from controller UI, enable cobalt plugin, youtube page will be loaded in TV UI.

• To load youtube from Moniter UI, select Premium content 1 and press enter

Once entered the premium content1, youtube page will be loaded.

Select and press enter to begin the playback.

Known Issues

Trouble Shooting

•  If fetch failure occurs for libinput, comment SRC_URI related changes from meta-cmf/recipes-graphics/libinput/libinput_git.bbappend.
• If fetch failure occurs for gst-plugins-ugly,use mirror source, for that comment out SRC_URI related changes from meta-cmf/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly_git.bbappend.    
•  If the wireless networks are not listed in controller wifi page, try after disabling and enabling wifi from Network page, networks will be listed.
•        Disable cntlm-main.service if device reboot occasionally.