TinyCtrl Initial Setup of Linux Board

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Note that any Board that ordered from Commonplace Robotics will definitely have been set up like this already. However this document may provide some insight about what is happening behind the scenes:

This is what we do to a virgin Phytec board when integrating it into a DCi robot.

This document assumes that you know what you're doing and that you are familiar with linux console environments.

Download

Download the full, zipped folder structure: TinyCtrl_Full

Copy TinyCtrl/ into /home/root/

scp TinyCtrl_Full.zip root@192.168.3.11:/home/root/
unzip TinyCtrl_Full.zip
rm TinyCtrl_Full.zip
cd TinyCtrl
chmod +x TinyCtrl
chmod +x startBatch.sh
cd

Install TinyCtrl Service

vi /etc/system/system/autostart_tinyctrl.service

paste this:

# This is part of systemd.

[Unit]
Description=TinyCtrl autostart
DefaultDependencies=no


[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/home/root/TinyCtrl/startBatch.sh
StandardOutput=syslog

[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target

save and close.

:wq!