Changes between Version 32 and Version 33 of expansion/gw16168

Timestamp:

08/28/2026 05:25:49 PM (5 hours ago)

Author:

Tim Harvey

Comment:

added details about proxy service

expansion/gw16168

@@ -496 +496 @@
 [=#ara2-runtime]
 == Ara Runtime
-NXP has a runtime library for the Ara240 which consists of some statically built libraries as well as a dynamic linked GStreamer plugin.
-
-The Ara runtime includes a couple of Python Wheels. A Python Wheel is a standard built-package format for distributing Python libraries. It is essentially a ZIP-format archive with a .whl extension that contains all the files needed for a package to run immediately after being. It's fairly standard when using Python to run into package version incompatibilities which is why user based Python virtual environments are used.
+NXP has a runtime environment for the Ara240 which consists of some libraries, config applications and scripts as well as proxy service and a  GStreamer plugin.
 
 The Ara runtime provides a complete runtime environment for AI/ML acceleration using the Ara240 NPU on for aarch64. This package includes:
@@ -507 +505 @@
  * Helper scripts for monitoring, benchmarking, and model management
  * Systemd service for automatic hardware initialization
+
+The ara240 proxy {{{proxy_ara240}}} provides a network client/server API for the hardware and is configured via {{{/etc/rt-sdk-ara240/proxy_config.yaml}}}. It is brought up on boot by the {{{rt-sdk-ara2.service}}} and listens on network port 5000 by default.
+
+The Ara runtime also includes a couple of Python Wheels. A Python Wheel is a standard built-package format for distributing Python libraries. It is essentially a ZIP-format archive with a .whl extension that contains all the files needed for a package to run immediately after being. It's fairly standard when using Python to run into package version incompatibilities which is why user based Python virtual environments are used.
 
 Installation on a Gateworks board with Ubuntu based OS:
@@ -582 +584 @@
  - /etc/systemd/system/rt-sdk-ara2.service - systemd service that handles the various hw util config
  - /etc/rt-sdk-ara240/cnn_config.yaml - config for nnapp
- - /etc/rt-sdk-ara240/proxy_config.yam - config for proxy
+ - /etc/rt-sdk-ara240/proxy_config.yaml - config for proxy
 
 Notes:
@@ -589 +591 @@
  - the binary tools and libs are all static linked for compatibility
  - the GStreamer libs require GStreamer 1.26 or newer and is dynamic linked
+ - the {{{rt-sdk-ara2.service}}} brings up the proxy script in the background so if you want to make sure its ready to service you should make sure the port is listening for connections
 
 Verification steps:
@@ -604 +607 @@
 ps -eaf | grep proxy_ara240
 }}}
+ 1. verify port listening
+{{{#!bash
+ss -tulpn | grep :5000
+}}}
+
 
 Examples:
@@ -629 +637 @@
 [=#gstreamer]
 === GStreamer plugins
-The Ara runtime provides an OpenSource GStreamer plugin for detection models:
+The Ara runtime provides an !OpenSource GStreamer plugin for detection models:
  - [https://github.com/nxp-imx-support/gstreamer-plugins-ara240 dvInf]