Installing KubOS-SDK

The KubOS-SDK is distributed using the python package system pip. You can install using this command:

        $ pip install kubos-sdk

KubOS-SDK is currently only supported in 64-bit OSX and Linux environments.

Creating a new project

Creating a new KubOS project is a two step process:

1. Create your project directory

    $ mkdir project-name

2. Initialize the project

From inside of the project directory run the kubos init commmand

    $ cd project-name
    $ kubos init project-name

The contents of your project directory should look something like this:

    $ ls
    module.json  project-name  source  test

Here is a quick rundown of the files that were generated:

project-name - This folder is where header files live
source - This folder is where source files live
test - This folder is where test source files live
module.json - This file is yotta's module description file.

KubOS uses the yotta build/module system, which is where this file structure comes from. You can read more about yotta here.

Building your project

Building a KubOS project is also a two step process:

1. Select your target

Yotta needs to know which target you intend to build for so it can select the proper cross compiler. KubOS currently supports two different targets:

STM32F407 Discovery Board
MSP430F5529 Launchpad

The respective commands to select those targets are as follows.

    $ kubos target stm32f407-disco-gcc@openkosmosorg/target-stm32f407-disco-gcc

    $ kubos target msp430f5529-gcc@openkosmosorg/target-msp430f5529-gcc

2. Build!

Once your target has been selected you can run the build command

    $ kubos build

If all goes well you should see this message:

    Build Succeeded

Flashing your project

At this point you've created a new project, written some fancy code (or borrowed our example app) and built it. Now you want to run it!

Flashing your project using the kubos tool is a relatively straightforward process:

Ensure that your board is plugged into your computer
Run the flash command
```
 $ kubos flash
```

Note: If your current user does not have read/write permission to your hardware device you may need to run this command as root

    $ sudo kubos flash