Quick Start Guide#

What’s included in the box?#

When you purchase a brand new BeaglePlay, In the box you’ll get:

  1. BeaglePlay board

  2. One (1) sub-GHz antenna

  3. Three (3) 2.4GHz/5GHz antennas

  4. Plastic standoff hardware

  5. Quick-start card

Tip

For board files, 3D model, and more, you can checkout BeaglePlay repository on OpenBeagle.

BeaglePlay box contents

Attaching antennas#

You can watch this video to see how to attach the antennas.

Tethering to PC#

Tip

Checkout Getting Started Guide for,

  1. Updating to latest software.

  2. Power and Boot.

  3. Network connection.

  4. Browsing to your Beagle.

  5. Troubleshooting.

For tethering to your PC you’ll need a USB-C data cable.

Tethering BeaglePlay to PC

Fig. 153 Tethering BeaglePlay to PC#

Access VSCode#

You can access VSCode in two ways:

  1. USB

  2. Access Point

USB#

Once connected, you can browse to 192.168.7.2:3000 to access the VSCode IDE to browse documents and start programming your BeaglePlay!

Access Point#

By default BeaglePlay Access Point is enabled, You can connect to BeaglePlay-XXXX Access Point with the password BeaglePlay and then browse to 192.168.7.2:3000 to access the VSCode IDE.

Note

You may get a warning about an invalid or self-signed certificate. This is a limitation of not having a public URL for your board. If you have any questions about this, please as on https://forum.beagleboard.org/tag/play.

BeaglePlay VSCode IDE (192.168.7.2:3000)

Fig. 154 BeaglePlay VSCode IDE (192.168.7.2:3000)#

Tip

For more Wifi and Access Point related info go to Connect WiFi

Demos and Tutorials#