1. Booting up BeagleBoneGreen - mayalassiter/bbg-grove GitHub Wiki

This page will walkthrough a new BeagleBoneGreen (BBG) out of the box. From powering the board for the first time to updating the on-board memory.

#Turning on the BBG for the first time# So you have this new hardware and want to know what the heck to do with it. One thing you can do is follow the official Seeed Studio getting started guide here. Or you can follow this guide to understand and develop with our simple, stable library of BBG to Grove sensor modules.

If the first thing you want to do is connect your device, you've come to the wrong guide. First, we want to be sure you have the best disk image for using and developing our library. You can leave your board in the box. Just grab a micro sd card, an adapter, and plug it into your computer. If it is an "unreadable format" or already has content, don't worry, we will be erasing everything and reformatting it for what we need.

If you do simply want to know how to power on the device, you can use either the micro-usb tether provided in the box and connect the board to your computer or you can use a 5V micro-usb wall adapter.

#Updating the Disk Image# We're going to update the on board memory so it's ready to connect to Grove sensors. First you need a way to reimage sd cards. While there are a few methods, we recommend etcher.io. You can download it here.

Next, plug your micro sd card and adapter into your computer and download this BeagleBone Disk Flasher Image.

Start up etcher and browse to your newly downloaded image. Etcher.io will then ask you to select an sd card. If you have more than one device connected, we are looking for one the same size as the new sd card you inserted. The sd card reader on my MacBook Pro assigns disk2/ to the micro sd card port. You can proceed to follow the Etcher Flash process, this will take a few minutes. Once Etcher has completed reimaging your sd card, we can update the on board memory of your BeagleBone.

#Flashing your BBG Memory# Plug a micro sd card with the latest stable BeagleBone flasher image into your BBG. Nest, power on the device. Press and Hold the "USER" button on the end of the device near the two Grove ports. After holding the button for a few seconds, you will see the on board lights blink in an alternating pattern, this means your BBG is updating to a new disk image from the sd card.

Once the new image is done uploading, all four on board BBG lights will be lit. You can now disconnect, and reapply power to the BBG.

Your BBG is now ready to set up developing with our grove library. You can follow steps to connect to your BBG via ssh and configure here.