redpesk and SolidSense N8 Compact

Revision and Notes

Date	Owner	Revision	Notes

Date	Owner	Revision	Notes
Mar 6, 2022		1.0	Initial release
Table of Contents	1 Revision and Notes 2 Introduction 2.1 What is redpesk? 3 redpesk Image Download 4 Writing the image to your SD card 5 Connect to the SolidSense N8 IoT Compact 5.1 SolidSense N8 IoT Compact Block Diagram 5.2 Hardware interfaces 5.3 Step-By-Step

Introduction

What is redpesk?

redpesk is a secure embedded all-in-one Linux software platform dedicated to Industrial IoT. It offers an easy-to-use pre-integrated CI/CD factory with more than 2,500 binary packages and a set of basic “ready-to-go” components that nearly every system requires.

For more information, please visit redpesk.

redpesk Image Download

Create a directory for downloading image:

mkdir ~/redpeskimage
cd ~/redpeskimage

Download the image by using:

wget -r -nd -nc --no-parent -A "redpesk*smack*" 'https://download.redpesk.bzh/redpesk-lts/arz-1.0-update/images/smack/minimal/aarch64/solidrun-edge-gateways/latest'

For more images releases, please visit redpesk images.

Writing the image to your SD card

To flash your SD card, unxz the compressed file and use dd:

unxz redpesk*.raw.xz
IMAGE=$(ls redpesk*.raw)
sudo dd if=$IMAGE of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress

Note:

Plug a micro SD into your Linux PC, the following assumes that the micro SD is added as /dev/sdX and all it’s partitions are unmounted.

Connect to the SolidSense N8 IoT Compact

SolidSense N8 IoT Compact Block Diagram

Hardware interfaces

You can visit our guide to get more information about the SolidSense N8 IoT Compact.

Step-By-Step

Plug in the SD Card into the board.
Power on the board.
Before powering up the board, make sure you have configured the boot media to microSD by setting the S1 switch on the boot source selector to ON:

	Switch 1	Switch 2
SD	ON	ON
eMMC	OFF	ON

Connect the USB-UART cable following the three pins beside the SD card socket

Open your serial console, restart your device and you should be able to see the following.

In order to be able to log in , please insert “root” as a username and password.
use dmesg to see the name of the USB plugged

use picocom
Getting the address of the board to be able to use a ssh connection
Connect an Ethernet cable between computer and SolidSense