Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6 - Using ADB

Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6
Introduction
SoM Overview Why the RB5/RB6? Carrier Boards Qualcomm Robotics RB5 developer kit Qualcomm Robotics RB6 platform
Software Development Support
Boot Devices Thundercomm SDK Downloading SDK Installing SDK Generating Image and flashing Linaro Getting Started Flashing Bootloader Flashing Boot Image and Rootfs Special / Debug Modes Setting up board in EDL Mode Setting up board in Fastboot Mode
Development in the Board
Getting into the Board Using ADB Using Serial Console Using SSH Device Setup WiFi setup HDMI setup Update Ubuntu Packages
Build from source
Base Image Customize Image
Capture Subsystem
Hardware Capture Components Software Capture Components Building your own camera sensor driver
Image Processing and Acceleration Software
GPU Profiling Fast CV Installing Hexagon SDK Installing Fast CV Building your own Fast CV application
GStreamer Pipelines
Capture and Display Video Encoding Video Decoding
AI Acceleration
Neural Processing SDK Downloading Requirements Setup SDK Environment Install qtimlesnpe Running Inception v3 Running MobileNetV2 + SSD TensorFlow Example pipeline TensorFlow to DLC Conversion
Sensors
IMU
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ADB (Android Debug Bridge) is a command-line tool for communicating to a device with ADB enabled. The tool works as client/server communication, where the client can send commands to a device, the server is in charge of connecting to the device and a Daemon that actually executes the commands sent by the client. ADB allows actions such as file sharing between computer and device an running shell commands on the device.

This section will help you into accessing the board with ADB, if you haven't installed ADB in your host PC, follow the step 2 in the section Linaro-Getting Started before continuing:

Figure 1: USB Type-C port

1. Connect the USB type-C cable to the board, see Figure 1, and the other end to your host PC.
2. Connect the power cable to the board.
3. In your host PC type the following command to check if the device is registered:

adb devices

It should look something like the following when the device is registered:

$ adb devices 
List of devices attached
3b73cc0	device

4. Once the device is registered type the following command to enter the board:

adb shell

Your terminal should change and look similar to the following:

#

In that case, you can now execute shell commands inside the platform.