Mihini/Run Mihini on an Open Hardware platform

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

• Configure a 3G USB stick for direct use using pppd.
• Configure/verifiy that there is Ethernet connection as a fall-back

Step 3 - Configure Mihini

• Enable the application container
• Enable (and configure) the update manager (?)

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