Thursday 7 January 2021

Montana: Granite Software resources installed

In order to develop the Montana Granite Litems, a set of software resources are needed. Specifically, for developing the source code for the Arduino Nano 33 IoT, this software has been installed:

  1. Arduino IDE for Mac in its latest version (1.8.13)
  2. Support for Arduino SAMD Boards (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+) in its latest version (1.8.11)
  3. ArduinoBLE library in its latest version (1.1.2)
Since, from a Bluetooth BLE perspective, the Litem is being supporting the role of GATT server, a GATT client is necessary to exchange data. In real world that client will be the Montana Yellowstone gateway, but in order to decouple litem and gateway developments a basic GATT client will be developed in the  Montana Granite project with the purpose of validating results.

The Granite GATT client will be developed in C# running on .NET Core Framework. For that purpose a VirtualBox Linux host with Ubuntu 20.04 Minimal Desktop distro has been deployed, and this software has been installed:
  1. packages-microsoft-prod.deb package, that adds Microsoft software repositories as packages sources
  2. dotnet-sdk-5.0 package
  3. Visual Studio Code for Linux in its latest version (1.52.1) via snap (sudo snap install --classic code)
  4. C# Visual Studio Code extension
  5. git package
  6. nuget package
BlueZ, the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack, was included in the Ubuntu distro.