Harald Quickstart Firmware

This project is part of Very labs.

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The harald quickstart firmware lets you try out harald on real hardware without the need to create a new Nerves project or compile any code.

Find the appropriate firmware or zip file here. If you're using fwup to write images to MicroSD cards, download the .fw extension and if you're using etcher, get the zip file. Releases are named by the boards they support:

• bbb - BeagleBone Black, BeagleBone Green, PocketBeagle, etc.
• rpi0 - Raspberry Pi Zero or Zero W
• rpi - The original Raspberry Pi Model B
• rpi2 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
• rpi3 - Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and Model B+
• rpi3a - Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
• rpi4 - Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
• x86_64 - Basic x86 hardware Once that's done, you're ready to burn the firmware to the MicroSD card.

Burning the Firmware

Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the firmware. We'll go through both fwup and etcher methods.

To be clear, this formats your SD card, and you will lose all data on the SD card. Make sure you're OK with that.

fwup

fwup harald_quickstart_rpi0.fw
Use 15.84 GB memory card found at /dev/rdisk2? [y/N] y

Depending on your OS, you'll likely be asked to authenticate this action. Go ahead and do so.

|====================================| 100% (31.81 / 31.81) MB
Success!
Elapsed time: 3.595 s

It's quite fast. Now you have Nerves ready to run on your device. Skip ahead to the next section.

etcher

Start etcher, point it to the zip file, and follow the prompts:

Testing the Firmware

Eject the SD card and insert it into the device that you're using. Power up and connect the device with a USB cable. In the case of the rpi0, the micro USB does both.

Once the device boots, you can now connect to it. There are three ways to connect to the device: ssh, picocom, and distributed Erlang. We'll take a look at ssh.

ssh

The harald_quickstart project configures the user as harald with the host nerves.local and has the password set as harald. With that in mind, we can use the ssh command to get to the iex prompt.

ssh [email protected]

SSH server
Enter password for "harald"
password:
Interactive Elixir (1.9.2) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
Toolshed imported. Run h(Toolshed) for more info

View log messages with `RingLogger.next` or `RingLogger.attach`. Toolshed
helpers are available. Type `h Toolshed` for details.

iex([email protected])1>

Now that we have an IEx prompt, lets scan for bluetooth devices

iex(harald_quickstart@nerves.local)1> Harald.LE.scan(:bt)
%{
  98485100363035 => %Harald.HCI.Event.LEMeta.AdvertisingReport.Device{
    address: 98485100363035,
    address_type: 1,
    data: [
      <<>>,
      {"Manufacturer Specific Data", <<>>}
    ],
    event_type: 0,
    rss: 168
  },
  122396970879915 => %Harald.HCI.Event.LEMeta.AdvertisingReport.Device{
    address: 122396970879915,
    address_type: 1,
    data: [
      <<>>,
      {"Manufacturer Specific Data",
       <<>>}
    ],
    event_type: 0,
    rss: 188
  }
}