Build Alexa SDK (AVS) image for i.MX8M EVK board (with Yocto Morty, Kernel4.9)

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Build Alexa SDK (AVS) image for i.MX8M EVK board (with Yocto Morty, Kernel4.9)

Build Alexa SDK (AVS) image for i.MX8M EVK board (with Yocto Morty, Kernel4.9)

Recipes to include Amazon's Alexa Voice Services in your applications.

Step 1 : Get iMX Yocto AVS setup environment

Review the steps under Chapter 3 of the i.MX_Yocto_Project_User'sGuide.pdf on the L4.X LINUX_DOCS to prepare your host machine. Including at least the following essential Yocto packages

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo \
gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev u-boot-tools

Install the i.MX NXP AVS repo

Create/Move to a directory where you want to install the AVS yocto build enviroment.

Let's call this as <yocto_dir>

$ cd <yocto_dir>
$ repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imxsupport/meta-avs-demos -b master -m imx-alexa-sdk-4.9.51-8mq_ga.xml

Download the AVS BSP build environment:

$ repo sync

Step 2: Setup yocto for Alexa_SDK image with AVS-SETUP-DEMO script:

Run the avs-setup-demo script as follows to setup your environment for the imx8mqevk board:

$ MACHINE=imx8mqevk DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland source avs-setup-demo.sh -b <build_sdk_8M>

Where <build_sdk> is the name you will give to your build folder.

After acepting the EULA the script will prompt if you want to enable:

Sound Card selection

The following Sound Cards are supported on the build:

  • 2-Mic Synaptics/Conexant
  • 2-Mic TechNexion Voice Hat (with DSPConcepts SW)

The script will prompt to select the soundcard you will be using:

Which Sound Card are you going to use?

Synaptics/Conexant .................... 1
VoiceHat (for DSPConcepts SW) ......... 2

Type the number of your selection and press Enter...

Install Alexa SDK

Next option is to select if you want to pre-install the AVS SDK software on the image.

Do you want to build/include the AVS_SDK package on this image(Y/N)?

If you select YES, then your image will contain the AVS SDK ready to use (after authentication). Note this AVS_SDK will not have WakeWord detection support, but it can be added on runtime.

If your selection was NO, then you can always manually fetch and build the AVS_SDK on runtime. All the packages dependencies will be already there, so only fetching the AVS_SDK source code and building it is required.

Finish avs-image configuration

At the end you will see a text according with the configuration you select for your image build.

Next is an example for a Preinstalled AVS_SDK with Synaptics Sound Card support

============================================================
AVS configuration is now ready at conf/local.conf

- Sound Card = Synaptics
- Alexa SDK 1.7 pre-installed
- Wifi supported

You are ready to bitbake your AVS demo image now:
  bitbake avs-image

If you want to use QT5DisplayCards, use then:
  bitbake avs-image-qt5
============================================================

Step 3: Build the AVS image

Go to your <build_sdk> directory and start the build of the avs-image

There are 2 options

  • Regular Build:

    $ cd  <yocto_dir>/<build_sdk>   
    $ bitbake avs-image
  • With QT5 support included:

    $ cd  <yocto_dir>/<build_sdk>  
    $ bitbake avs-image-qt5

The image with QT5 is useful if you want to add some GUI for example to render DisplayCards.

Step 4 : Deploying the built images to SD/MMC card to boot on target board.

After a build has succesfully completed, the created image resides at

<build_sdk>/tmp/deploy/images/imx8mqevk/

In this directory, you will find imx8mqevk-avs--.sdcard image or imx8mqevk-avs-qt5--.sdcard, depending on the build you chose on Step3.

To Flash the .sdcard image into an SD Card follow the next steps:

  • Extract and copy the .sdcard file to your SD Card

    $ cd <build_sdk>/tmp/deploy/images/imx8mqevk/ 
    $ cp -v imx8mqevk-avs-synaptics-1.7.sdcard.bz2 <workdir> 
    $ cd <workdir> 
    $ sudo bzip2 -d imx8mqevk-avs-synaptics-1.7.sdcard.bz2 
    $ sudo dd if=imx8mqevk-avs-synaptics-1.7.sdcard.bz2 of=/dev/sd<part> bs=1M && sync 
    $ sync
  • Properly eject the SD Card:

    $ sudo eject /dev/sd<part>
  • Insert the flashed SD Card on the 8M EVK and boot.

  • Follow the instructions at startup to setup your AVS and run the SampleApp.


NXP Documentation

For a more comprehensive understanding of Yocto, its features and setup; more image build and deployment options and customization, please take a look at the i.MX_Yocto_Project_User's_Guide.pdf document from the Linux documents bundle mentioned at the beginning of this document.

For a more detailed description of the Linux BSP, u-boot use and configuration, please take a look at the i.MX_Linux_User's_Guide.pdf document from the Linux documents bundle mentioned at the beginning of this document.

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Hello:

  Why do I follow your steps and fail to find the   avs-setup-demo.sh   script  ?

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