Portenta X8: Add GS

Author: marqdevx

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+title: 'Portenta X8 Getting Started'
+description: 'Learn how to set up the Portenta X8'
+difficulty: medium
+tags:
+  - Installation
+  - OTA
+  - Embedded Linux
+author: 'Pablo Marquínez'
+hardware:
+  - hardware/04.pro/boards/portenta-x8
+software:
+  - ide-v1
+  - ide-v2
+  - web-editor
+  - iot-cloud
+---
+
+## Connecting to the board
+
+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:
+
+![](assets/x8-oob-main.png)
+
+
+* [Configure Wi-Fi](#connecting-to-your-wi-fi)
+* [Register the factory (OTA)](#registering-a-factory)
+* Board details
+* Shell
+
+## Connecting to your Wi-Fi
+
+Click the Wi-Fi button to start configuring your network connection.
+
+![](assets/x8-oob-  main-wifi.png)
+
+Select your Wi-Fi SSID
+
+![](assets/x8-oob-wifi-ssid.png)
+
+Type the password
+![](assets/x8-oob-wifi-pass.png)
+
+Once its connected you should see the Wi-Fi status button on green.
+
+![](assets/x8-oob-wifi-sucess.png)
+
+
+***You can change your network by clicking again on the button and repeat the steps***
+
+## Registering a Factory
+
+Click the "Register with Factory" button, and set your new factory name.
+
+![](assets/x8-oob-factory-name.png)
+
+Click register, now you will get a code that you need to paste into your factory page by openning [Arduino Create Cloud](https://create.arduino.cc) in your browser and click inside the integrations section "Portenta X8 Board Manager
+
+![](assets/cloud-main.png)
+
+Once it succeed the factory button will turn to green.
+
+![](assets/x8-oob-wifi-sucess.png)
+
+
+## Controlling Portenta X8 through the terminal
+
+You have plenty of ways to communicate with your board, we are going to show adb and ssh.
+
+### ADB
+
+First of all make sure you have the latest Mbed Portenta Core, which contains the adb program.
+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.
+
+To know the list of devices that can be accessed type `adb devices`.
+
+If you see only one you just can type `adb shell` if it succeed, you are now communicating to your Portenta X8.
+
+### SSH
+
+SSH is commonly used for remote control on a different kind of devices running different set ups through TCP-IP.
+
+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`.
+
+![](assets/ssh-connection.png)
+As it is a linux device, you can do normal stuff like creating files, changing directory, etc.
+
+To gain admin (root) access, type `sudo su -` and the password is `fio`  after that the terminal prefix should turn red.
+
+![](assets/ssh-connection-admin.png)
+
+### Inspecting real time tasks
+
+Run: `journalctl -f` to see what's going on on the device
+
+![](assets/command-journalctl.png)
+
+## Uploading an Arduino Sketch
+
+Make sure you have the latest mbed Core and as every other board you can select the board inside the `mbed Portenta`.
+
+![](assets/IDE-boards.png)
+
+And click compile and upload.
+
+***Make sure you don't share GPIOs on the linux side and the Arduino sketc, this will avoid possible errors***