AI-on-the-edge-device/code

Build

Preparations

git clone https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device.git
cd AI-on-the-edge-device
git checkout main
git submodule update --init

Update Submodules

cd /components/submodule-name (e.g. tflite-micro-example)
git checkout VERSION (e.g. HASH of latest tflite-micro-example build)
cd ../../ (at the code level)
git submodule update --init

You may need to manually delete some directories in the 'components' folder beforehand, as they were not deleted during checkout (before update -- init)

Build and Flash within terminal

See further down to build it within an IDE.

Compile

cd code
platformio run --environment esp32cam

Upload

pio run --target upload --upload-port /dev/ttyUSB0

Alternatively you also can set the UART device in platformio.ini, eg. upload_port = /dev/ttyUSB0

Monitor UART Log

pio device monitor -p /dev/ttyUSB0

Build and Flash with Visual Code IDE

• Download and install VS Code

  • https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

• Install the VS Code platform io plugin

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  • Check for error messages, maybe you need to manually add some python libraries
    • e.g. in my Ubuntu a python3-env was missing: sudo apt-get install python3-venv

• git clone this project

  • in Linux:

    git clone https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device.git
    cd AI-on-the-edge-device
    git checkout main
    git submodule update --init
    

• in VS code, open the AI-on-the-edge-device/code

  • from terminal: cd AI-on-the-edge-device/code && code .

• open a pio terminal (click on the terminal sign in the bottom menu bar)

• make sure you are in the code directory

• To build, type platformio run --environment esp32cam

  • or use the graphical interface:
  • the build artifacts are stored in code/.pio/build/esp32cam/

• Connect the device and type pio device monitor. There you will see your device and can copy the name to the next instruction

• Add upload_port = you_device_port to the platformio.ini file

• make sure an sd card with the contents of the sd_card folder is inserted and you have changed the wifi details

• pio run --target erase to erase the flash

• pio run --target upload this will upload the bootloader.bin, partitions.bin,firmware.bin from the code/.pio/build/esp32cam/ folder.

• pio device monitor to observe the logs via uart

Update Parameters

If you create or rename a parameter, make sure to update its documentation in ../param-docs/parameter-pages! Check the ../param-docs/README.md for more information.