bluerobotics
install: Add support for Ubuntu 64-bit
Raised in this forum post:
user: robinsIn case anyone else is attempting to install on Ubuntu 20.04, here are a few solutions to problems you'll encounter.
- rfkill isn't installed, which is easy to remedy.
sudo apt-get install rfkill- The default user isn't named 'pi', which causes errors with the install script. Can be fixed by following this guide: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-change-username-on-ubuntu-debian.html
- A few file paths are different, which require you to clone the BlueOS repository locally and make necessary changes.
- The path in line 16 of bcm_27xx.sh should be changed to:
/boot/firmware/overlays/$DTS_NAME.dtbo- And line 67 to:
/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt- And finally the paths in lines 161 and 163 in the install.sh script should both be changed to:
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.confI ended up opting to use 64-bit RaspiOS for my application, so there may be more issues than are listed here, but this might at least shave an hour or two off of your troubleshooting.
user: EliotBRBlueOS is open source, and extendable to other systems - the best approach for this kind of thing is to do the modifications with checks to a variable (presumably
$ARCHITECTUREin this case) as relevant, so that it chooses the correct code to execute for the system in use.
https://github.com/bluerobotics/BlueOS?tab=readme-ov-file#deveompment-environment helps a lot with that. If the users adds the necessary binds and enable wifi, cable guy and commander, it may work.
I've tried installing BlueOS on a Raspberry Pi 4B running Ubuntu 24.04. The docker container doesn't start on boot, but after starting it manually it sets up the network configuration correctly and I can access the web dashboard. The frontend shows a series of 502 error responses in the notifications tray. Do you have any idea what changes would be required to fully support Ubuntu @patrickelectric ?
