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## Connecting to the Board
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Once the Portenta X8 its plugged via USB, you can open your browser and go to http://192.168.7.1 and see a web which is hosted by the board, from this dashboard you will be able to:
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Once the Portenta X8 is plugged in via USB, you can open your browser and go to http://192.168.7.1 and see a web page which is hosted by the board, from this dashboard you will be able to:
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![Board set up page](assets/x8-oob-main.png)
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![Select wifi on set up page](assets/x8-oob-main-wifi.png)
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Select your Wi-Fi SSID
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Select your Wi-Fi SSID.
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![Wifi ssid set up](assets/x8-oob-wifi-ssid.png)
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Type the password
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Type the password.
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![Wifi password set up](assets/x8-oob-wifi-pass.png)
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Once its connected you should see the Wi-Fi status button on green.
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Once its connected you should see the Wi-Fi status dot in the bottom left turn green.
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![Wifi connection done](assets/x8-oob-wifi-sucess.png)
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***You can change your network by clicking again on the button and repeat the steps***
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***You can change your network by clicking on the button again and repeat the steps***
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## Registering a Factory
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![Name your factory](assets/x8-oob-factory-name.png)
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Click register, now you will get a code that you need to paste into your factory page by opening [Arduino Create Cloud](https://create.arduino.cc) in your browser and click inside the integrations section "Portenta X8 Board Manager"
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Click register, now you will get a code that you need to paste into your factory page by opening [Arduino Create Cloud](https://create.arduino.cc) in your browser and click the "Portenta X8 Board Manager" inside the integrations section.
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![Complete factory page](assets/x8-oob-factory-register.png)
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![Arduin Cloud integration](assets/cloud-main.png)
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Once it succeed the factory button will turn to green.
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Once it is completed the factory button will turn green.
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![Successful connection](assets/x8-oob-wifi-sucess.png)
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## Controlling Portenta X8 Through the Terminal
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You have plenty of ways to communicate with your board, we are going to show adb and ssh.
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You have plenty of ways to communicate with your board, be it wirelessly or with a cable. Next we are going to show how to use adb and ssh.
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### ADB
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First of all make sure you have the latest Mbed Portenta Core, which contains the adb program.
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You can go to its directory inside the Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/adb/32.0.0, to check the tool you can type on your terminal `adb` you should get feedback from the tool.
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First of all make sure you have the latest **Mbed OS Portenta Core**, which contains the adb program.
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You can go to its directory inside the **Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/adb/32.0.0**. To check the tool you can use your teminal and type `adb`, you should get feedback from the tool when typing this.
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To know the list of devices that can be accessed type `adb devices`.
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If you see only one you just can type `adb shell` if it succeed, you are now communicating to your Portenta X8.
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If you only see one device you can try and type `adb shell`, you are now communicating with your Portenta X8.
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SSH is commonly used for remote control on a different kind of devices running different set ups through TCP-IP.
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To communicate with your board, you will need to know the IP of it, and just type `ssh fio@<IP>`, then the terminal workaround should be the same as ADB.
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SSH is commonly used for remote control on different kinds of devices running different set ups through TCP-IP.
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The password is `fio`.
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To communicate with your board, you will need to know the IP of it, and just type `ssh fio@<IP>`, then the terminal workaround should be the same as ADB. The password is `fio`.
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![SSH connection](assets/ssh-connection.png)
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***Make sure you don't share GPIOs on the linux side and the Arduino sketc, this will avoid possible errors***
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***Make sure you don't share GPIOs on the linux side and the Arduino sketch, this will avoid possible errors***

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