02-quick-start.rst

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. A sub-GHz antenna
3. Three (3) 2.5GHz/5GHz antennas
4. Plastic standoff hardware
5. Quick-start card

Attaching antennas

Note

Attaching the antennas can be complicated. This is not the expected BeaglePlay experience and we hope to fix it in the future. This is necessary if you plan to use any of the wireless connectivity features.

Important

Add documentation on attaching antennas here.

Tethering to PC

Tip

Checkout :ref:`beagleboard-getting-started` 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 to USB-A data cable.

Tethering BeaglePlay to PC

Access VSCode

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

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)