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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

Recipe Hotspot-yb


When we run a tree command on the hotspot-yb recipe directory, we get the following output:

$  tree ../meta-ybdevelop/recipes-example/hotspot-yb/
../meta-ybdevelop/recipes-example/hotspot-yb/
├── files
│   ├── aplaunch.sh
│   ├── ap.service
│   ├── carl9170.conf
│   ├── hostapd.conf.yb
│   ├── setup-gw.sh
│   ├── udhcpd.conf.yb
│   └── udhcpd.leases
└── hotspot-yb_0.1.bb

First, we will discuss these files one by one, although these are mostly available through the links shared in Literature Survey. Yet, some files are renamed, or some of the contents are changed. We won't be discussing the contents, rather just the use of these files. Next, we will discuss our recipe, hotspot-yb_0.1.bb, which is also not very complex, as it has only two simple tasks.

The access point launcher script

aplaunch.sh is an access point launcher script. This script is triggered by systemd daeipt. It performs the following major tasks:

  • Launches the DHCP server

  • Launches the hostap daemon

  • Launches the...

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