It is time to upgrade default image on BBGW - BeagleBone Green Wireless board. This guide details out steps on Update Beaglebone Green To Latest Image. My default image on BBGW is “BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2016-06-14”. The command dog cat will tell you what image you are at in BBGW. $cat /etc/dogtagThe default Wi-Fi access point password for latest flasher images is “BeagleBone-A490”. This image comes as default when you buy BBGW in India. Few of the reason to upgrade to new image is, Difficulty in connecting to internet with old image. New uEnv.txt format will not work on this image, and you will have difficulty while communicating with UART, I2C and other peripherals. There are quite guides on Writing
Month: July 2021
BBGW And MQTT Broker Using Desktop
In the previous post we have seen different ways to connect BBGW - BeagleBone Green Wireless board with Wi-Fi and unboxing BBGW for the fist time. This post is about how to test BBGW and MQTT Broker using desktop or laptop. When building IoT applications it is good practice to send test data using your desktop or laptop. This makes sure that your IoT application built using either flutter or android works fine. This will also help to reduce the waiting time for actual firmware and hardware getting ready. The mobile application developer can test and run his application without actual hardware. This technique can save you a lot of time and energy for the rest of your project development. MQTT
How To Connect BBGW To Internet
This post covers getting started with Beaglebone Green Wireless and connecting to internet using BBGW Wi-Fi. Received BBGW (BeagleBone Green Wireless) a customized BeagleBone from SeeedStudio. If you have used BBB (BeagleBone Black) then you might notice few difference like there is no 5V DC Jack socket in BBGW. I had trouble connecting to internet from BBGW. Lets get started with How To Connect BBGW To Internet. If you have LCD cape and USB keyboard, you can setup Wi-Fi easily on BBGW. Lets get started with setting up without LCD cape and using command line. First Power Up BBGW There are lot of guide on setting up BBGW via USB. It is pretty straightforward, connect the USB to your computer/laptop, It