Revision as of 11:44, 11 January 2013

This page describes a scenario for illustrating the use of Mihini on an Open Hardware Linux-based platform such as BeagleBoard or RaspberryPi.

The goal would be for someone to be able to be only one hour away from taking a bare development board and have it configured to collect data out of the GPIO sensors and send this data on a remote server. The application should be updatable over-the-air.

Step 1 - Build Mihini

• Download the sources
• Cross-compile (or compile directly on the target) the Mihini runtime
• TODO at that stage, can we try to create a dpkg? That'd be very useful...

Step 1 (alternative) - Get a ready-to-use "Mihini for XXX" SD card binary image

• Download a ready-to-use .img file and put it on the SD card used on the development board

Step 2 - Configure network connection

3G connection

• apt-get install ppp
• http://mycusthelp.net/SIERRAWIRELESS/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?sSessionID=&aid=5#Connecting_using_PPPD

Ethernet connection

• Configure/verifiy that there is Ethernet connection as a fall-back

Step 3 - Configure Mihini

Compile Mihini

First of all you will need prerequisites sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake Now get the sources

cd /tmp/
git clone ssh://host/mihini.git

Then there will be some configuration on agent/agent/defaultconfig.lua.

• Enable the application container
  • appcon.activate = true in defaultconfig.lua
• Enable the update manager
  • update.activate = true in defaultconfig.lua
• OPTIONAL (but useful :)), enable Lua shell on all network interfaces
  • shell.address = '*'

Now you can choose to compile directly on your device or cross compile it then send in to your device of choice. For the following sample a RaspberryPi has been used.

Compiling on device

Move the repository you just cloned to your device ( in my case using scp ). Installed the prerequisites mentioned above on your device and simply run the following in the repository you just copied.

#
# On raspberrypi itself
#
cd mihini/bin
./build.sh

Cross compiling

#
# Cross compiling
#

# Get linaro toolchain
cd /where/you/want/it
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools.git

# Define path to the arm toolchain you just downloaded
cd /tmp/mihini
vim cmake/toolchain.raspberrypi-linaro.cmake
cd bin/
./build.sh -t raspberrypi-linaro

#
# Compiling Lua
#
cd build.raspberrypi-linaro/
make lua

# Send all this on raspberrypi
scp -r runtime pi@yourPiIp:mihini

Step 4 - Setup Koneki environment

• Download Lua Development Tools
• Install "Mihini target management"
• Configure the "Mihini execution environment" (provides nice autocompletion...)

Step 5 - Create your first application

• TODO (blink a LED, use a touch sensor, measure the temperature and available RAM of the board...)

Step 6 - Test the application

• Configure the remote target in the Koneki environment
  • You will need to know the IP address of the target, but you likely know it already :-)
• Create a launch/debug configuration and test your script

Step 7 - Install your application over the air

• Use the Koneki tools to create an application package
• Deploy the package on a publically available web server
• Connect to the Mihini console and for a connection to the testing server

MISC. TIP & TRICKS

• You may want to have udev rules so as your USB devices (typically the 3G stick) does not end up having an always changing /dev/ttyUSB<something> file descriptor...
  • For a Sierra 3G stick, create a 99-aircard.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d, with the following rules (your ID_VENDOR_ID and ID_MODEL_ID may be different):

SUBSYSTEM=="tty", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="1199", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="68a3", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM}=="03", SYMLINK+="ttyATConsole0" SUBSYSTEM=="tty", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="1199", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="68a3", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM}=="04", SYMLINK+="ttyATConsole1"

• • For a serial-USB adapter: http://hintshop.ludvig.co.nz/show/persistent-names-usb-serial-devices/
• Below is a template of the defaultconfig.lua that you should use to have most of the important features (appmon, updatemanager, ...) of Mihini enabled

TODO