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2 new articles help engineers new to Automotive Grade Linux

Konsulko Group’s Leon Anavi has made a couple of recent contributions to the Automotive Linux (AGL) wiki:
* ConnMan (how to use the cli tool to connect to a network)
* Media Browser and Player (playing songs from a USB stick)

We hope that this technical information will help beginners to get started easier and faster with AGL. We encourage you to participate in the AGL wiki. Feel free to update and improve either or both articles.

Don’t be afraid to get help with the basics

Fifteen years ago, we used to say that getting an embedded Linux kernel and drivers successfully running on your target hardware got you about 10% of the way to your finished product. Now, thanks to OpenEmbedded and the Yocto project, you can do a lot better than that, but there are usually a few technical challenges along the way.

At Konsulko Group, we’ve seen many of these issues (often repeatedly) in the world of Yocto/OE, and we are often called upon by our clients for this “basic” work. If you are moving to new hardware or building the next generation of your device, we can help with your hardware bring-ups, “upreving” your software stacks, porting your unique OS work, determining if rearchitecting is necessary, and providing on-going maintenance.

Don’t hesitate to contact us, no matter how large or small your technical challenge. Chances are that our past two decades of experience can solve your problems very efficiently, so you can spend your time focussing on the things that make your product unique.

See you at the Automotive Linux Summit in Tokyo

Automotive Linux Summit connects the developer community driving the innovation in automotive Linux together with the vendors and users providing and using the code in order to drive the future of embedded devices in the automotive arena. Once again this year, ALS will gather over 1,000 attendees from global companies leading and accelerating the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car.

Konsulko Group works closely with Automotive Grade Linux to support AGL development, releases and demos. If you are in Tokyo at ALS, please be sure to say hello to Scott Murray and Matt Ranostay from Konsulko, and don’t forget to congratulate AGL Executive Director Dan Cauchy as an ECD Top Embedded Innovator of 2018!

Konsulko Group sponsors TuxCon 2018

Konsulko Group was proud to be a Gold Sponsor of TuxCon 2018 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on June 9th and 10th. TuxCon is an annual community event about free and open source software and hardware. It is organized by volunteers and free for all visitors. Twitter hashtag: #TuxCon.

Headquartered in California, Konsulko Group works with our customers throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Our European subsidiary, Konsulko Ltd is based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

If you are building a new product, we’d love to talk with you about engaging Konsulko’s engineering expertise and experience on your project. Or if you’re a software developer with a passion for Linux, please contact us about joining the Konsulko team.

Konsulko Group presented two technical talks at ELC North America 2018

Konsulko engineers gave two well-received presentations at the Embedded Linux Conference, the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products. Slides and abstracts are available at the links below.


Tuesday, March 13 • 2:00pm – 2:50pm
Automating Open Source Hardware Lightning with Home Assistant and MQTT – presented by Leon Anavi


Tuesday, March 13 • 4:20pm – 5:10pm
poky-tiny and Beyond, or Trying to put the Yocto in Yocto Project – presented by Scott Murray

ELC North America was held in Portland, Oregon, March 12-14, 2018.

What We Learned from Jim Ready

When Jim Ready passed away at the end of December, he left a legacy in the world of software development that continues to this day and will continue for many years to come. He drove the commercial acceptance of Linux as an embedded operating system in its early days, taking it all the way from “how can this work?” to widespread adoption across one industry after another.

Jim was also an articulate (if occasionally reluctant) spokesman for both Embedded Linux as a community and using the open source methodology for commercial software — the symbiotic parts of a never-ending process.

With his pioneering work with VRTX and Ready Systems, Jim was already well respected in embedded systems when he founded MontaVista Software in the final months of the last century (1999) with the Internet bubble bursting and Linux still very young (and very PC and server focused).

He had the crazy idea that open source software could be a viable commercial solution for every conceivable embedded device. This was a huge leap, basing a business not on the tightly controlled “precious jewel” world of RTOSs, but instead on the constantly evolving, messy organism that was the Linux community. That required looking at commercial software development in the open source model, moving beyond static releases, updates and lifecycle programs, focusing on process instead of product, on outcomes instead of systems, on management and integration instead of authorship.

Many of us at the Konsulko Group worked at MontaVista in those early years. We experienced first hand the paradigm shift and the hard work it took to make it happen. Jim gave us the chance to do something we loved (and in most cases already pursued as a hobby) and turn it into our life’s work. Almost two decades later, through the lasting relationships we formed and the lessons we learned working with him, we are thankful for the opportunities, mentoring and friendship Jim gave us, and that’s part of his legacy as well.

Konsulko joins Developer Panel Keynote at AGL AMM in Tokyo

At the Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting at the Hilton Tokyo, Scott Murray, Konsulko Group Senior Staff Software Engineer, will bring his 20+ years experience developing with Linux, plus expertise building custom distributions with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project, to the Developer Panel Keynote on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 11:10am – 11:50am. It promises to be a lively and informative discussion among some of the top engineers working with AGL. If you are planning to attend the AMM, don’t miss this session. We hope to see you in Tokyo!

Konsulko at February conferences in Europe and Japan

The Konsulko Group will be well represented at February 2018 conferences with members of the team attending:
* FOSDEM Brussels February 3-4
* Automobile Grade Linux All Member Meeting Tokyo February 20-21
* 4YFN & Mobile World Congress Barcelona February 26-March 1
* Embedded World Nuremberg February 27-March 1
Hope to see you there. Please contact us if you’d like to meet up at one of the shows.

New video released of “The Konsulko Story”

CEO Pete Popov and CTO Matt Porter talk about the Konsulko Group’s 20-years of experience with Embedded Linux, and introduce the Konsulko team.

Created by multimedia director Alex Vlacos, the video was filmed in October 2017 during the Embedded Linux Conference in Prague, where key Konsulko engineers gathered to give technical papers and demonstrate new technology.

Konsulko Group presented 3 technical talks at ELCE in Prague

ELC is the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products. Now in its 12th year, the conference gathers user-space developers, product vendors, kernel and systems developers to collaborate.

Senior engineers from the Konsulko Group gave three technical presentations at ELC Europe 2017 in Prague on October 23-25:

  • Free and Open Source Software Tools for Making Open Source Hardware, Leon Anavi
  • Building a Remote Control Robot with Automotive Grade Linux, Leon Anavi
  • State of AGL: Plumbing and Services, Matt Porter & Scott Murray

We also demoed two Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) platforms at the Attendee Reception and Sponsor Showcase on Tuesday, 24th October.

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