Employ Reference Boards

Introduction

Required Hardware

The equipment listed below is required for complete functionality of the standalone environment. The only devices that are tested to work properly in this solution are the specific brands and models listed below. Support for other types of equipment is not available at this time.

1. Raspberry Pi 3 b or Raspberry Pi 3 b+ device
2. Standard USB keyboard
3. Television set/monitor with HDMI input.
4. Ethernet cables
5. USB-Ethernet Adapter
6. SD Card ( Preferably 8GB or more )
7. Tp-link dongles
8. USB to Serial Debugging Adaptor ( Needed only for serial debugging )

                            RPI 3B

                          RPI 3B+                          

Build Instructions

Repo setup

In order to install Repo make sure you have a /bin directory in your home directory and that it is included in your pat

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Download the repo tool and ensure that it is executable
$ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Note: it is also recommended to put credentials in .netrc when interacting with repo.

A sample .netrc file is illustrated below

machine code.rdkcentral.com
login YOUR_USERNAME
password YOUR_PASSWORD

Yocto Build Steps

To build, follow below instructions
Build Steps

$ mkdir <workspace dir>
$ cd <workspace dir>
$ repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b rdk-next -m manifest.xml
$ repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle
$ source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment (Select option raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.conf)
$ bitbake <image>

Note : RPI-3 B and B+ have same Build instructions and testing procedure

Flashing Procedure

Following command can be used to flash the RPI image to sd card using linux machine . dd tool should be available in linux

sudo dd if=<path to ImageName.rpi-sdimg> of=<path to SD card space> bs=4M
Example:
$ sudo dd if=rdk-generic-broadband-image-raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.rpi-sdimg of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

https://www.balena.io/etcher/ can be used to flash RPI image in sd card using windows