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  • Page 1 AdvLinuxTU User Manual V1.1.2...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Legacy Boot Mode Installation Steps ..............8 3.5.2. UEFI Boot Mode Installation Steps ..............14 4. Advantech device driver ..................20 5. EAPI(Embedded API) Solution ................20 6. AdvLinuxTU X-Windows Introduction ............... 20 6.1. X-Windows overview ...................... 20 6.2. X-windows tools ......................20 6.2.1.
  • Page 3 9.3. How to use ........................31 9.3.1. Server runtime environment setup ................ 32 9.3.2. Device environment setup ..................32 9.3.3. Device Enroll to server ..................33...

  • Page 4: About This Manual

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 1. About This Manual Thank you for choosing Advantech. This manual is for AdvLinuxTU and can be copied and distributed in any medium. AdvLinuxTU is based on Xbuntu 18.04.x, its kernel is 4.15. 2. AdvLinuxTU Overview AdvLinuxTU is an embedded Linux system designed for Advantech embedded devices, and it is especially optimized for TPC/UNO/PPC/ITA series.

  • Page 5: Kernel Version

    2.3. Software version： Xorg: 1.19.6 Qt：5.9.5 glibc：2.27 gcc: 7.3.0 2.4. User and Password There are three users in AdvLinuxTU by default. The user and default password is as follows： root:111111 advantech:111111 sysuser: 1111111 2.5. Main Features AdvLinuxTU has many important features coming for industrial customers. Here we...

  • Page 6: Advlinuxtu Screenshot

    AdvLinuxTU after the installation.  USB installation support The user can burn the AdvLinuxTU ISO to a USB disk, and then the user can install AdvLinuxTU to Advantech device from the USB disk.  Hardware auto detection When installing AdvLinuxTU, the installation will detect the hardware automatically and install all drivers it needs.

  • Page 7: Installation Guide

     Rufus utility 3.3. Install from USB disk We use Rufus tool to Burn AdvLinuxTU ISO file to USB disk, Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, Rufus is open source and is 100% Free Software (GPL v3)，You can download from https://rufus.ie/ System Requirements for Rufus: Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter.

  • Page 8: Raid Mode & Installation Steps

    AdvLinuxTU Manual Picture 3-3-1 Select the AdvLinuxTU ISO File and start to burn Burn the ISO as follows: a) Insert USB disk to windows PC b) Start Rufus tool c) Select AdvLinuxTU ISO d) Click START to start burn 3.4. Raid mode & Installation Steps UNO-2483G,UNO-2484G,UNO-3283G,TPC-B500 support raid mode.

  • Page 9: Create Raid Volume

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 3.4.2. Create RAID Volume Enter “ctr + i” will show the RAID interface, choose “Create RAID Volume” and press enter. Enter “Shift + y” to Create Raid Volume. At present, RAID1 is mainly supported. The specific steps are as follows...
  • Page 10 AdvLinuxTU Manual Don’t modify the defalt “Volume1”, otherwise AdvlinuxTU will install failed. You can see Volume1 show up. Enter “Shift + y” to exit.

  • Page 11: Boot Mode & Installation Steps

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 3.5. Boot Mode & Installation Steps AdvLinuxTU supports two boot modes: Legacy and UEFI. 3.5.1. Legacy Boot Mode Installation Steps 3.5.1.1. BIOS Configuration Step1: CSM configuration...
  • Page 12 AdvLinuxTU Manual Step2: USB configuration Step3: Boot Option #1 selection...
  • Page 13 AdvLinuxTU Manual 3.5.1.2. System Mode Selection (Gui/Console) If you want to boot into the graphical interface, select the first one. If you want to boot into the character interface, select the second one.
  • Page 14 AdvLinuxTU Manual 3.5.1.3. OS Installation If the device has multiple disks (two disks have been tested at most), picture a and picture b will be show to select disk for installation. But it will auto install except in this case.
  • Page 15 AdvLinuxTU Manual Enter “Yes”, it will start the installation. Picture b Picture c...
  • Page 16 AdvLinuxTU Manual Picture d 3.5.1.4. Change Boot Option #1 Enter Reboot and go into BIOS, change device hard disk as Boot Option #1.

  • Page 17: Uefi Boot Mode Installation Steps

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 3.5.2. UEFI Boot Mode Installation Steps 3.5.2.1. BIOS Configuration Step1: CSM configuration Step2: USB configuration...
  • Page 18 AdvLinuxTU Manual Step3: Boot Option #1 selection 3.5.2.2. System Mode Selection (Gui/Console) If you want to boot into the graphical interface, select the first one. If you want to boot into the character interface, select the second one.
  • Page 19 AdvLinuxTU Manual 3.5.2.3. OS Installation If the device has multiple disks (two disks have been tested at most), picture a and picture b will be show to select disk for installation. But it will auto install except in this case.
  • Page 20 AdvLinuxTU Manual Enter “Yes”, it will start the installation. Picture b Picture c...
  • Page 21 AdvLinuxTU Manual Picture d 3.5.2.4. Change Boot Option #1 Enter Reboot and go into BIOS, You can see there are two UEFI Boot hard disk. Ubuntu (P0: KINGSTON SA400S37240G) and UEFI OS (P0: KINGSTON SA400S37240G). You can choose both of them.
  • Page 22 4. How to disable auto login 4.1. Desktop mode Change autologin-user to false in the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf field. The default autologin-user field is advantech. Change it to autologin-user=false and save it. After rebooting, it will not automatically log in, You need to enter the password manually.

  • Page 23: Advantech Device Driver

    /usr/src/advantech and auto loaded during the booting process. Here are some examples or demos in /usr/src/advantech/driver name/example/. 6. EAPI(Embedded API) Solution AdvLinuxTU supports EAPI soulution. if you want to know the detail, please read Embedded API (EAPI) Developer Guide V1.4. 7. AdvLinuxTU X-Windows Introduction 7.1.

  • Page 24: Thunar

    AdvLinuxTU Manual Picture 6-2-1 X Terminal 7.2.2. Thunar It provides folder management functions similar to windows. Picture 6-2-2 Thunar Thunar is a fast and easy-to-use file manager for XFCE desktop environment. Official site: http://thunar.xfce.org/...

  • Page 25: Browser

    Picture 6-2-3 Lightweight picture-viewer Ristretto 7.3. X-Windows Configuration AdvLinuxTU provides many helpful tools, most of which can be opened from the XFCE setting manager, for user configuration. In the following sections, we will introduce some of them which are helpful for the user to configure the system.

  • Page 26: Resolution Configuration

    AdvLinuxTU Manual Picture 6-3-1 XFCE setting manager 7.3.1. Resolution configuration Select the Display item from list to change the Xorg resolution. For multiple displays, device resolution is based on minimum screen resolution.

  • Page 27: Ip Configuration

    Picture 6-3-2 Resolution Setting 7.3.2. IP configuration AdvLinuxTU gets IP according to DHCP default. If you want to get IP by static, you can use “Network Connections”. To set static IP, you must restart the service of NetworkManager. Please reboot the machine.

  • Page 28: Sound Card Configuration

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 7.3.3. Sound card configuration Picture 6-3-5 Sound Settings To install the text mode, please run #alsamixer The Sound configuration tools will be shown as below: Picture 6-9 Audio Setting...

  • Page 29: Introduction Of Console Mode Tools

    In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and sophisticated configuration options. 8.4. Qt Runtime and Development Environment 8.4.1. Qt runtime environment AdvLinuxTU provide QT-5.9.5 library/ 8.4.2. Qt Development environment Suggest using Qt Creator to develop Qt application. User can install the Qt Creator online.
  • Page 30 AdvLinuxTU Manual Picture 6-3-1 Install Qt Creator Picture 5-3-2 Qt Creator...

  • Page 31: System Backup And Restore

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 9. System backup and restore 9.1. How to backup  Step1：Boot, when the GRUB menu appears, choose “AdvLinuxTU Recovery Mode”. AdvLinuxTU: main system AdvLinuxTU Recovery Mode: mini system  Step2：Open the terminal, enter advbackup.sh and run it. There is no need to do anything during running the script. After it finishes running, the system will automatically restart and advlinux-2.0.img will be copied to the...
  • Page 32 AdvLinuxTU Manual  Step2：Open the terminal, enter into /media/recovery Since you have backuped the system, you'll notice that advlinux-2.0.img is available in this directory. Enter “mv advupdate.txt.example advupdate.txt”,reboot, it will restore automatically.

  • Page 33: Wise-Paas/Apphub

    Here, we only briefly introduce it, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us! The agent of AppHub has been built in AdvLinuxTU already. But it does not start automatically. If you want to use it, refer 9.3, it is easy.

  • Page 34: How To Use

    AdvLinuxTU Manual  OS update for single device  OS update OS update in batch for multi devices  History record  docker image management  Docker monitoring docker container management  management docker container monitoring  Support docker-compose and docker swarm ...

  • Page 35: Server Runtime Environment Setup

    2.1 of AppHub manual. 10.3.2. Device environment setup We have built AppHub agent in AdvLinuxTU already, you can use it just do as follows: Step1: start the agent service, run “systemctl start EI-Device.service” in terminal.

  • Page 36: Device Enroll To Server

    AdvLinuxTU Manual 10.3.3. Device Enroll to server We provide 2 ways for Linux to enroll，just one of them can enroll to server success.  Way 1: Click “ Input Server Information” , and paste the connection information  Way 2: Enroll by scanning the QR code.

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