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iii. How to Develop

Here, we will perform two steps in one: learning how to make modifications to the code, and how to change the final screen in CCIS which describes what the builds are.

What IDE should I use?

Anki tended to use Visual Studio Code - just use that.

What OS should I use?

An M-series Macs, or an x86_64 Linux PC - toolchains are only available for these platforms.

Let's make a modification!

  1. Open up the diode-os-victor folder in VSCode.
  2. Open up animProcess/src/cozmoAnim/faceDisplay/faceInfoScreenManager.cpp
  3. Modify lines 69-72 to match the details of your new CFW.
  4. Open a terminal and run cd ~/diode-os-victor
  5. Build the code by running this: ./build/build-v.sh

Deploy

When you deploy code to a robot, his /anki folder gets replaced. This can be done on a laptop (reference: Ryzen 7840U, 16GB RAM). You do not need to build a whole OTA every time you want to test a change. ./build/build.sh just builds a /anki folder.

  1. Open a terminal and cd ~/diode-os-victor
  2. Echo your robot's IP address to robot_ip.txt: echo "192.168.1.50" > robot_ip.txt
  3. Run: curl -o robot_sshkey https://github.com/kercre123/unlocking-vector/raw/refs/heads/main/ssh_root_key
  4. Deploy: ./build/deploy-v.sh

Build an OTA with your change

  1. Run cd ~/diode-os
  2. Update the submodule: 
cd anki/victor
git pull origin main
cd ../../
git add .
git commit -m "vp"
git push
  1. Build:
./build/build.sh -bt dev -v 1
  1. Your OTA will be at: ./_build/vicos-3.0.1.1d.ota.