Developer Tools

A TUI to interface with BotChain devices. Provides the following features:

• Device discovery
• View device metadata, sensor data, and connections.
• View logs from device.
• Apply an Over The Air (OTA) update.
• Change settings (device ID, type, wifi, etc.)
• View crash dumps from device

Platform Support

• MacOS (Apple silicon)
• MacOS (x86)
• Ubuntu (x86)
• Windows (x86)

Setup

MacOS

Install xcode command line tools (if you do not already have them)

xcode-select --install

Install conan and dependencies

brew install conan cmake ninja clang-format@21

Generate a conan profile

conan profile detect --force

Follow the required artifactory setup.

Ubuntu

On newer versions of Ubuntu, the package manager is responsible for managing python packages. We use pipx to create a virtual environment.

Install pipx and dependencies

sudo apt install pipx cmake ninja-build

Install clang-format version 21.

Install conan

pipx install conan

Generate a conan profile

conan profile detect --force

Follow the required artifactory setup.

Required Artifactory Setup

These instructions should only be followed after you have completed all setup steps for your platform.

Add the artifactory

conan remote add artifactory http://jslightham.com:8081/artifactory/api/conan/botchain

Running the App

# Macos and Linux users can run,
./build.sh