Intel Edison. Investigating IoTivity

Working Reference (After-the-post note): https://github.com/intelmakers/GETTING-STARTED/wiki/Options-for-installing-IoTivity-stack-on-Edison

Experiment goal:

To explore IoTivity and to execute client-server test using IoTivity discovery feature

Result:

• Creation of and flashing Yocto image for Edison
  • looks to be succssessfull according to logs (see the picture below)
  • !!! but NO components named with iotivity or oic were found on Edison with fresh flashed Yocto.
• Compiling of simpleclient and simpleserver provided at iotivity examples
  • succeeded only at Ubuntu PC host (see the picture below)
  • !!! failed to compile examples for Yocto

Conclusion

Goals not achieved yet. The investigation/experiment has to continue.

Process:

• Source links:
  • Main link: https://wiki.iotivity.org/running_sample_codes_in_iotivity_0.9_sdk_on_edison
  • http://shawnhymel.com/585/creating-a-custom-linux-kernel-for-the-edison/
  • https://communities.intel.com/message/253475#253475
  • http://download.intel.com/support/edison/sb/edisonbsp_ug_331188007.pdf
  • http://www.scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-user.html#chap-build-install
  • https://www.iotivity.org/downloads/iotivity-0.9.0-release
  • https://www.iotivity.org/documentation/linux/getting-started

 

• Ingredients:
  • Ubuntu LTS 14.04 64 bit
  • Intel Edison wit Arduino Extension Board
  • Iotivity 0.9 SDK

 

• Steps:
  • install required packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential git diffstat gawk chrpath texinfo libtool gcc-multilib
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libexpat1-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui
sudo apt-get install dfu-util screen libsdl1.2-dev kate u-boot-tools

• download edison yocto sources from here: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/25028/eng/edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz (refered here as ‘Linux source files’ for Edison Firmware:https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/edison/downloads)

~>cp Downloads/edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz ~
cd ~

• extract doewnloaded file
  tar xvf edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz

• Build initial Yocto image for Edison:

— Initialize Yocto build environment

cd edison-src/meta-intel-edison

./setup.sh –bb_number_thread=2 –parallel_make=2

— Run bitbake to create an initial Edison image  (bitbake execution will take time: several hours)

cd /home/mpasha/edison-src/out/linux64
source poky/oe-init-build-env
bitbake edison-image

• Add Iotivity (meta-oic) to the build

cd edison-src/device-software
git clone http://git.yoctoproject.org/git/meta-oic
cd meta-oic
git checkout

• Add ”meta-oic” Iotivity layer to the build with editing ”bblayer.conf”
  cd ~/edison-src/build/conf
  kate bblayer.conf &
• Add the full path of meta-oic in section [BBLAYERS ?= ” \]
  example:
  …
  BBLAYERS ?= ” \
  /home/mpasha/edison-src/out/linux64/poky/meta \
  /home/mpasha/edison-src/out/linux64/poky/meta-yocto \
  /home/mpasha/edison-src/out/linux64/poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
  /home/mpasha/edison-src/meta-intel-edison/meta-oic$ \
  \
  ”
  …
• Add iotivity package to the build with editing local.confkate local.conf &

Add lines
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = ” iotivity-dev iotivity-resource-samples iotivity-service-samples”
or
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = ” iotivity-resource-samples iotivity-service-samples”
BBMASK = “meta-oic/recipes-kernel/”

Make sure to keep a space between the opening quote and “iotivity-dev”
else you will run into an error with bitbake complaining there is no provider of clloaderiotivity

• Build Edison Yocto image again with IoTivity (this will take about 2 hours)

cd /home/mpasha/edison-src/out/linux64
source poky/oe-init-build-env
bitbake edison-image -c populate_sdk

• setup SDK
  mpasha@mpasha-pc:~$ ./edison-src/out/linux64/build/tmp/deploy/sdk/poky-edison-glibc-x86_64-edison-image-core2-32-toolchain-1.7.2.sh
• Finally, run the post-build script to generate the toFlash/ directory:
  mpasha@mpasha-pc:~$ sudo ./edison-src/meta-intel-edison/utils/flash/postBuild.sh ./edison-src/out/linux64/build
• install xfstk
  https://communities.intel.com/message/257193#257193
• Flash Yocto image to Edison
  sudo ./edison-src/out/linux64/build/toFlash/flashall.sh
  Connect Edison and your development system with 2 USB cables and execute below command

reconnect (pull the USB cables out and plug them again) the board when propmpted

• Checking the flash process

sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

• Boot up and Configure Edison
  Boot up Edison, connect to it with Putty on serial port and configure name, password and wifi
  At Edison command prompt:
  configure_edison –setup

— To detect USB on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install input-utils

mpasha@mpasha-pc:~$ lsusb
mpasha@mpasha-pc:~$ ls -l /dev/ttyU*
crw-rw—- 1 root dialout 188, 0 אוג 15 08:36 /dev/ttyUSB0

mpasha@mpasha-pc:~$ sudo putty

 

• #######################################################################
• Build edisonserver and edisonclient
• #######################################################################

install scons according: iotivity/readme.scons.txt

iotivity> sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libexpat1-dev libboost-thread-dev uuid-dev
iotivity> sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
iotivity> sudo ldconfig
iotivity>sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
iotivity>sudo apt-get install scons

if scons asks you to install additional packages – do so util scons stopps ascing and starts compiling iotivity

iotivity> git clone https://github.com/01org/tinycbor.git extlibs/tinycbor/tinycbor

mpasha@mpasha-pc:~/iotivity$ source /opt/poky-edison/1.7.2/environment-setup-core2-32-poky-linux
mpasha@mpasha-pc:~/iotivity$ scons ./examples/OICSensorBoard
mpasha@mpasha-pc:~/iotivity$ scons ./examples/OICMiddle/
mpasha@mpasha-pc:~/iotivity$ scons ./resource/examples/

• Compilation results are here:
  /home/mpasha/iotivity/out/linux/x86_64/release/examples
  /home/mpasha/iotivity/out/linux/x86_64/release/resource/examples

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

• boost installing according : https://www.iotivity.org/documentation/linux/getting-started
  cd boost_1_55_0/
  sudo ./bootstrap.sh –with-libraries=system,filesystem,date_time,thread,regex,log,iostreams,program_options –prefix=/usr/local
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev
  sudo ./b2 install
  sudo sh -c ‘echo ‘/usr/local/lib’ >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf’
  sudo ldconfig
• scons commands to try

sudo scons TARGET_OS=yocto TARGET_ARCH=x86_64 resource/examples/
sudo scons TARGET_OS=yocto –extrapath=/home/mpasha/boost_1_55_0
scons RELEASE=false TARGET_OS=yocto TARGET_ARCH=x86_64

• IoTRelated files at Edison
  on Edison
  ./usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotkit.py
  ./usr/bin/iot
  ./usr/lib/node_modules/iotkit
  ./usr/lib/node_modules/iotkit-agent
  ./usr/lib/node_modules/iotkit-comm
  ./usr/lib/opkg/info/iotkit-xxx
  ./usr/share/iotkit-lib
  ./usr/share/iotkit-comm
  ./usr/include/iotkit-lib
  ./usr/include/iotkit-comm
  ./lib/systemd/system/iotkit-agent.service
  ./etc/iotkit-lib
  ./etc/iotkit-comm

 

Pics:

•  simpleclient and simpleserver communicate on Ubuntu

• Edison Yocto image flash suceeded, but no oic or iotiviyu files detected on Edison