YoBWay

What is it?

Yocto Basic Gateway is a project based on Yocto, Intel Edison and some connectivity protocols.

Prerequisites

You must have an Intel Edison up running without any troubles and connected via serial connection. Make sure you have the latest Intel Edison Yocto image installed.

you can check version cat /etc/version or configure_edison --version

Setup

Now run configure_edison --setup, the option --setup is not present before doing an successful upgrade always check for latest image updates: configure_edison --upgrade

Hint: if you are on build >=68 you can activate the Wifi AP mode (see section down) and run the configuration via webconsole http://your_Edison_IP_address

Turning Edison into an WLAN/WiFi Accesspoint

working as well just press the power button between 4sec & 7sec sec and you will find a hotspot with the name you have given your Edison during setup, use the given root pwd to get a connection. My Edison can now be reached e.g. from smartphone via SSH your_Edison_IP_address (notice different network setting as with DHCP above) ATTENTION: will stay in AP mode after reboot!

You want manuelly to switch back from AP mode in Client mode of Wifi? simply run configure_edison –setup again

systemctl stop hostapd systemctl disable hostapd systemctl enable wpa_supplicant systemctl start wpa_supplicant wpa_cli reconfigure wpa_cli select_network wlan0 udhcpc -i wlan0

Turning Edison into an Beacon/iBeacon:

Remembering what is a Beacon rfkill unblock bluetooth hciconfig hci0 up hcitool lescan LE Scan … 63:58:79:E0:17:7C (unknown) In this example an Estimote Beacon was found! 63:58:79:E0:17:7C (unknown) Ctrl+C Stop Scan

OK Bluetooth Low Energy based on blueZ (5.18) is up and running!