NVIDIA Jetson Nano™ - Quick Start
Overview
This section provides Eclipse Kura™ quick installation procedures for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano™.
Warning
This quickstart will install the version of Kura with the administrative web UI and network configuration support but not CAN bus support. For more information on this please visit the Eclipse Kura download page
This quickstart has been tested using the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS image provided by NVIDIA here and burned on a SD card with Etcher.
The official images can be found on the Jetson Nano Developer Kit Getting Starteg Guide. Further information on the Ubuntu installation for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano™ can be found here.
Eclipse Kura™ Installation
To install Eclipse Kura with its dependencies on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano™, perform the following steps:
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Boot the NVIDIA Jetson Nano™ with the latest Jetson Nano Developer Kit SD Card image.
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Make sure your device is connected to internet. By default,
eth0
lan network interface is configured in DHCP mode. -
Upgrade the system:
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Download the Kura package with:
wget http://download.eclipse.org/kura/releases/<version>/kura_<version>_nvidia-jetson-nano_installer.deb
Note: replace
<version>
in the URL above with the version number of the latest release (e.g. 5.2.0). -
Install Kura with:
All the required dependencies will be downloaded and installed.
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Reboot the NVIDIA Jetson Nano™ with:
Kura starts on the target platform after reboot.
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Kura setups a local web ui that is available using a browser via:
The browser will prompt the user to accept the connection to an endpoint with an untrusted certificate:
Once trusted the source, the user will be redirected to a login page where the default username is:
and the default password is:
Warning
The Nvidia Jetson Nano with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS comes with the
ubuntu-fan
script that is launched by theifup
command. Since this relies on thefanctl
script which requires root privileges, this causes issues on the Kura networking. For example, the network configuration cannot be applied due to some errors. Here are some further details. To avoid errors in the application of the network configuration is preferable to disable the script execution with this command:chmod -x /etc/network/if-up.d/ubuntu-fan