brickman

The ev3dev Brick Manager.

Issues

Please report issues or feature requests at https://github.com/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues

Hacking

Get the code:

• Clone of the brickman repo.

    git clone git://github.com/ev3dev/brickman
    cd brickman
    git submodule update --init --recursive
  

To build for the EV3:

• Setup brickstrap

• In brickstrap shell:

    sudo apt-get build-dep brickman
    mkdir -p /host-rootfs/<some-path-like-home/user/build-brickman>
    cd /host-rootfs/<some-path-like-home/user/build-brickman>
    cmake /host-rootfs/<path-to-brickman-repo> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=string:Debug
    make
  

• On your host computer (not in brickstrap shell), use NFS or sshfs to share <some-path-like-home/user/build-brickman> with your EV3.

• On your EV3, stop the runing service: sudo systemctl stop brickman, connect the share and run ./brickman or if you temporarily replaced the one in /usr/sbin restart it with sudo systemctl start brickman.

• If running brickman from systemd, you find the stdout/stderr in the journal: journalctl -f -u brickman.

• To get more details you can sudo systemctl set-environment G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all and sudo systemctl restart brickman.

• likewise you can tune down the amount of logging with sudo systemctl unset-environment G_MESSAGES_DEBUG followed by sudo systemctl restart brickman.

To build the desktop test (makes UI development much faster), in a regular terminal, not in brickstrap shell:

• Install the build-deps listed in debian/control and also the packages libev3devkit-desktop-dev and libgtk-3-dev.

• Then...

    mkdir -p <some-build-dir>
    cd <some-build-dir>
    cmake <path-to-brickdm-source> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=string:Debug -DBRICKMAN_TEST=bool:Yes
    make
    make run
  

• Also see brickman.sublime-project for more build hints.

Note: brickman.sublime-project is for Sublime Text.