Software Installation¶

BeagleBone shortcut is BBB.

Connect BeagleBone to boneIO backplane and plug-in network cable.
Find BBB in your network.
Connect via ssh with username debian. Default password is temppwd.
Change default password by running

passwd

Update your BBB¶

(click Yes if needed to perform upgrade). First upgrade can take ~30mins.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot

Add uEnv to enable all possible PINS¶

Edit /boot/uEnv.txt and uncomment following lines (eg by using nano)

disable_uboot_overlay_video=1
disable_uboot_overlay_audio=1
disable_uboot_overlay_wireless=1

Disable unnecessary services¶

(if you need some you can just avoid disabling it).

sudo systemctl disable bonescript-autorun nginx wpa_supplicant bonescript.socket cloud9.socket cryptsetup.target

reboot

Install dependencies¶

sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7-dev libatlas-base-dev python3-venv

There are 2 ways to install BoneIO app.

Semi auto installation¶

Follow on screen instruction.

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/boneIO-eu/app_black/raw/main/install_script.sh)"

Manual installation¶

Preffered way.

Let’s assume installing as default debian user in home directory and Python 3.7 as base.

Prepare VENV¶

mkdir ~/boneio
python3 -m venv ~/boneio/venv
source ~/boneio/venv/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade boneio
cp ~/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/boneio/example_config/*.yaml ~/boneio/

Now edit ~/boneio/config.yaml

Run manually with debug flag¶

source ~/boneio/venv/bin/activate
boneio run -c ~/boneio/config.yaml -dd

Create startup script¶

Create file `~/boneio/boneio.service

[Unit]
Description=boneIO
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/debian/boneio/venv/bin/boneio run -c /home/debian/boneio/config.yaml

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Copy file to systemd and enable it.

sudo cp ~/boneio/boneio.service /lib/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now boneio