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. One (1) sub-GHz antenna

3. Three (3) 2.4GHz/5GHz antennas

4. Plastic standoff hardware

5. Quick-start card

Tip

For board files, 3D model, and more, you can checkout BeaglePlay repository on OpenBeagle.

Attaching antennas

You can watch this video to see how to attach the attennas.

Tethering to PC

Tip

Checkout Getting Started Guide 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 data cable.

Fig. 107 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.

Fig. 108 BeaglePlay VSCode IDE (192.168.7.2:3000)

Demos and Tutorials

• Using Serial Console

• Connect WiFi

• Using QWIIC

• Using Grove

• Using mikroBUS

• Using OLDI Displays

• Using CSI Cameras

• Wireless MCU Zephyr Development

• BeaglePlay Kernel Development

• Understanding Boot