BRIDGE X

Current Version - 1.0.2

Downloads Available

1.0.2 (2019-04-26)

Changes

  • general bug fixes
  • UI fix for display connect issues

Extract the image on Windows

BridgeX Consumer Help Articles

BridgeX Set Up Guide

Flashing an SD Card with BridgeX

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Advanced Setup and Update Options for MacOS or Linux

  • First insert your SDCard into your chosen dongle USB to SDCard reader

Next we want to download the latest Bridge X Image

  • Click here to download
  • Double click on the zipped file to expand it
  • You should now see the img file appear in the same folder where the img.tar.gz file appeared

Flash the image

  • Open your Mac's disk utility and navigate to 16gb disk NORELSYS 1081
  • Click Erase
  • Select ExFAT as your format for the new partition
  • Check for successful erase
  • Click on the info button in the disk utility
  • Scroll down to the parent disks
  • Take note of the parent disks name

Go into a terminal window

  • Navigate to the image
    • In downloads (or wherever you keep your downloads) .img file
  • Enter this command
  sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<your parent disks name>
  • Then install image to the Bridge
  sudo dd if=./xyobridge.img of=/dev/<your parent disks name> bs=1m
  • Once that is completed, you can eject the SDCard and install it in your Bridge X

Updating the Bridge through unattended upgrades

Once we have set up our Bridge X it would be a good idea to check on and complete upgrades

There are two ways that we can do this

  • First, enter this command to execute commands on your Bridge
  ssh bridge@<ip address of your bridge>
  • You will be prompted to enter a password, you will enter the default password for the Bridge filestore - geohacker
bridge@<ip address of your bridge>'s password:
  • Then enter this command
sudo apt update
  • Enter the device password again for the Bridge - geohacker
[sudo] password for bridge:
  • You should see the Bridge pulling the latest from the repo
Hit:1 http://repo.xyo.network/repos/apt/raspbian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch InRelease
Get:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease [25.4 kB]
Fetched 25.4 kB in 1s (15.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
31 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
  • Now run this command to upgrade
sudo apt upgrade
  • You will be prompted on whether you would like to continue with the upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
<packages to be upgraded will be listed here>
31 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 106 MB of archives.
After this operation, 303 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

This upgrade includes a lot of downloading and unpacking of new packages, so please be patient with the process

You should see a progress bar

Progress: [ <percent complete>%] [#################################################################################################################################..........................................................]

Once it completes, you are all set with your upgrade. Be sure to visit the Bridge X App to verify that it is still functioning

You can also use this command after sudo apt update to execute an unattended upgrade

sudo unattended-upgrades -d

The confirmation output after this upgrade process should look like this

+ @xyo-network/bridge.pi@0.123.0
updated 1 package in 71.157s
xyo-bridge-pi is ready
All upgrades installed
InstCount=0 DelCount=0 BrokenCount=0
Extracting content from '/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log' since '2019-04-18 22:08:09'

Congrats you have upgraded your Bridge X!

Changing linux default password

If you don't want our default password to run your bridge, you are more than welcome to change it

  • First, enter this command to execute commands on your Bridge
  ssh bridge@<ip address of your bridge>

NOTE you can change the password to your Bridge filestore by entering this command

sudo passwd bridge

You will then get a prompt to enter the current password (geohacker)

[sudo] password for bridge:

Enter a new password

Enter new UNIX password:

Then confirm this new password

Retype new UNIX password:

After the password is confirmed you will see this message and you may continue operating on the Bridge with your own password

passwd: password updated successfully

Adding an archivist

Use the Bridge X UI

  • Scroll down on the dashboard to your connected archivists - you will see that we have one connected which is XYO's Archivist

archivist-gui

  • Click +Connect More Archivists

You should see a Add Archivist modal pop up on your screen

  • Enter the IP Address or DNS Name
  • Enter the Port number
  • Click Save

add-archivist

  • Once we save the information, we should now see another Archivist under Connected Archivists

connected-archivists

We have now connected an Archivist to the Bridge X using the Bridge's native UI!

Changelog

Version - 1.0.1

1.0.1 (2019-04-23)

New Features

  • add ui component for last resort update (for large scale bridge issues)
  • add ui to display current npm and apt versions

Changes

  • about tag in footer is new location for force update and last resort
  • general bug fixes

Version - 1.0.0

1.0.0 (2019-04-18)

Changes

  • more consistent force update of bridges
  • general bug fixes
Last updated on 8/12/2019
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