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+, RPI 4B 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 )


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                            RPI 3B

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                          RPI 3B+                          

USB to Serial Debug converter Link and set up

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Purchase Link(PL2303) - USB to Serial               

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RPI 3 Pin Diagram

The above mentioned adaptor (PL2303) will support Linux host machine ( ubuntu ) with proper connection between RPI (for both 3B and B+) as below

After connection, please run minicom in host machine to establish serial connection with RPI

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Minicom

Note : In usual, adaptor will have device name as ttyUSB0 after connected to host PC ( can be checked using dmesg command in host ). Please configure minicom accordingly. 

Dongles Information Links


Supported drivers for  USB-to-Ethernet Adapters

 Validated USB-to-Ethernet Adapters

If any additional driver support required, please edit the below cfg file to enable your driver.

https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/plugins/gitiles/rdk/components/generic/rdk-oe/meta-cmf-raspberrypi/+/refs/heads/rdk-next/recipes-kernel/linux/files/remove_unused_modules.cfg