Dear Valued Backers,

Many of you have received Mixtile Cluster Box and Blade 3 Boards and initiated your application.

To successfully operate Blade 3 boards after installing them into the Cluster Box, you must update the boot image file and install a driver for Blade 3 boards.

Please follow this documentation or the guidance provided below:

Preparations

• Download boot image file: https://downloads.mixtile.com/boot.img
• Download driver: https://downloads.mixtile.com/miop-control-arm64.deb
• Install ADB tool by referring to Install ADB.
• Prepare a USB-C cable.

Steps

Step 1. Download the boot image file and driver and put them to the Blade 3 board.

1. Connect your PC or Mac to the USB-C port (near HDMI) of Blade 3 indicated by N1 using the USB-C cable.
2. Download the boot image file and driver to your PC or Mac. Under the directory of the two files, run the following adb command to push them to the Blade 3 board:

adb push boot.img miop-control-arm64.deb /home/mixtile

Note: You can also download the files to the Blade 3 board directly or upload them to Blade 3 remotely by running the command:

scp boot.img miop-control-arm64.deb mixtile@blade 3 IP address: /home/mixtile

Step 2. Update the boot image file and install the driver.

1. Run adb shell to navigate to the console of Blade 3.
2. Update the boot image file:

sudo dd if=boot.img of=/dev/mmcblk1p3 conv=sync

3. Install the driver:

sudo dpkg -i miop-control-arm64.deb

Step 3. Install the driver to other Blade 3 boards.

Repeat the preceding steps to update the boot image file and install the driver to the other three Blade 3 boards.

Step 4. Reboot Cluster Box.

Step 5. Check whether Blade 3 boards are displayed either via SSH or via GUI.

Method 1: Via SSH

1. Log in to Cluster Box by running the ssh mixtile@Cluster Box IP address command.

2. List active Blade boards by running the nodectl list command. If the command output shows the four Blade 3 boards as shown below, they have been started properly.

If no device is found, run the rescan command and then the list command to view the device.
03:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01) 
05:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)
06:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)

Method 2: Via GUI:

1. Log in to the web page of Cluster Box.

2. Scroll the page to the Active DHCP Leases area. If the four Blade 3 boards are displayed as shown below, they have been started properly.

For more technical support, please contact us at support@mixtile.com or comment on Mixtile Community and Facebook Group.