ghese/vortex-scripts

A collection of services and startup scripts to enable automatic start / restart of software on boot.

vortex-scripts

A collection of services and startup scripts to enable automatic start / restart of software on boot.

IP-adresses

IP-addresses might change. Make sure that all script contain up-to-date IP-adresses. Current IP-addresses: odroid: 10.42.0.174 front-cam-helga: 10.42.0.123 nanopi-ingrid: 10.42.0.78 nanopi-christine: 10.42.0.222

View status of a service

To view the status of a service, use the following command: sudo journalctl -f -u run-manta.service

Enabling services and startup scripts

Note that the following steps only needs to be applied once.

odroid

A service is needed to start the script launch_manta.sh at boot. Additionally it makes sure that the processes started by the script is restarted if they crash.

To enable a service, the following steps need to be made.

• Clone the repository

git clone http://github.com/vortexntnu/vortex-scripts

• Create a copy of run-manta.service into /etc/systemd/system

sudo cp run-manta.service /etc/systemd/system

• Create a symbolic link of the startup script in /usr/bin

sudo ln -s /absolute-path-to-git-folder/launch_manta.sh /usr/bin

Camera

nanopi-ingrid and front-cam-helga

sudo cp run-gstreamer.service /etc/systemd/system

sudo ln -s /absolute-path-to-git-folder/start-gstreamer.sh /usr/bin

Manipulator

nanopi-christine

sudo cp run-manipulator.service /etc/systemd/system

sudo ln -s /absolute-path-to-git-folder/start-manipulator-script.sh /usr/bin

sudo ln -s /absolute-path-to-git-folder/launch-manipulator.sh /usr/bin

Enabling the services

run-manta.service example cd /etc/systemd/system

sudo systemctl enable run-manta.service

sudo systemctl start run-manta.service