Developers

Introduction

The source code for the Wave Operating System can be found by visiting Github at this repo unclehowell/waveos,

A downloadable image will be made avaliable from wave.hotspotbnb.com, which can be easily copied to portable storage devices (MicroSD Card & USB) so the End-User can be up and running in seconds. But at this stage we are only offering the solution as a manually built process, which in summary goes as follows:

Step 1. Install LineageOS to the Raspberry Pi and using a HDMI display and keyboard/mouse enable developer mode and Debugging, install Loyverse and a StartUp App (and configure to make Loyverse boot on startup). Then disable the Wi-Fi and connect the Raspberry Pi to the PC via Ethernet.

Step 2. Install Ubuntu to the PC and ensure all display, touchscreen & networking drivers etc are installed.

Step 3. Share the PC´s Wireless connection to the ethernet port and take note of the IP address it assigns the RPi.

Step 4. Install scrcpy and all its dependancies (snap etc). Install using snap for automated install.

Step 5. Put this script into /etc/profile.d and call it launcher.sh, remembering to use the RPi IP and/or adb devices output. The example IP in this sample script is 10.42.0.52.

Sample Script

# restart all network adaptors
sudo service network-manager restart &&
sleep 4 &&
# share the PC´s Wi-Fi to its Ethernet Port
nmcli c modify netplan-enp1s8 ipv4.method shared &&
sleep 4 &&
# connect the adb service to Android - * ideally we want to explore ´adb device > .txt´ at this juncture
#incase a different IP address is assigned
sudo adb connect 10.42.0.52:5555  &&
# match the screensizes - again we may want to explore ´randr --listdisplays > .txt´ here
# incase the users changed the PC´s default display dimensions
adb shell wm size 1024x768 &&
# launch scrcpy at a rate that will run smooth and fullscreen
sudo scrcpy -b2M -m800 -f

Step 6. Give the script root permissions with the command sudo chmod +x launcher.sh

Step 7. Create a .desktop icon to launch the script. Here´s a sample:

.desktop icon

#!/usr/bin/env
[Desktop Entry]
Icon=/home/onelove/Pictures/icons/icon.png
Categories=Utility;Application;
Comment=use CTL + F to escape fullscreen
Exec=/etc/profile.d/launcher.sh
Name[en_US]=Android-RPI3
Name=CTL + F to escape fullscreen
Terminal=true
Type=Application