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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

You're reading from   Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black Unleash the power of the BeagleBone Black embedded platform with Yocto Project

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289736
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black 2. What's BitBake All About? FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating the helloworld Recipe 4. Adding Multimedia to Your Board 5. Creating and Exploring Layers 6. Your First Console Game 7. Turning BeagleBone into a Home Surveillance System 8. BeagleBone as a Wi-Fi Access Point Index

Managing in packagegroups


I have broken up all of the artifacts into the following three package groups:

  • packagegroup-yb-develop.bb

  • packagegroup-yb-hotspot.bb

  • packagegroup-yb-surveillance.bb

We can use all these package groups simultaneously by adding all of them in the core-image-sato.bbappend file as follows:

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " packagegroup-yb-hotspot"
  packagegroup-yb-develop \
  packagegroup-yb-surveillance \
  "

We may face issues if the single kernel is not working after all. I haven't tried, but I am hopeful that the camera will work for both the kernels in the same way. So, we can use 3.12.30 for both Chapter 7, Turning BeagleBone to Home Surveillance System, and this chapter. Give it a try!

Let's take a look at the procedure to connect with an Android mobile phone. We'll look at connecting with client devices by following these steps:

  1. Boot your BBB board.

  2. Ensure that the Wi-Fi dongle is enabled by this command:

    ifconfig -a
  3. It should show wlan0 up.

  4. Search for the BBB access point...

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