Setting up QtCreator for cross-compilation with CMake took me 15-20 hours the first two or three times. The next half a dozen times took me 4 hours on average. The last two times took me 5 minutes - using
Welcome to Episode 15 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! If you are planning to give a presentation at a Qt event this year, you’ll find two calls for presentations in the News section. Note that the deadline
Our Qt embedded system is displayed on a monitor mounted in portrait orientation. The system runs the Wayland compositor Weston as a window manager. HMI applications are shown rotated by 90 degrees - in landscape orientation. The system toolbar of Weston
Welcome to Episode 14 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! In January, I had the chance to test LoRaWAN and BLE Long Range (Coded PHY) for wireless communication indoors - with walls and other obstacles. The selection of the “right”
September 2021 saw the launch of Qt 6.2 - the first Qt 6 version with feature parity to Qt 5.15. I wanted to find out whether Qt 6.2 is fit for products. So, I migrated the HMI application
Welcome to Episode 13 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! Qt 6.0 was released on 8 December. So, writing a Qt 6 Special suggested itself. I take a look at 7 posts from the Qt 6 launch through
Which system-on-chip is best suited for your Qt embedded system? Should you build a custom Linux system with Yocto, use a container OS or a desktop Linux? Should you use Qt Commercial or Qt LGPLv3? How will the
Welcome to Episode 12 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! I can’t believe it! This is the 1st anniversary of my newsletter 🎉 Episode 1 had 6 readers. Episode 12 has 254 readers. I hope that you have as
We change the code of our Qt application in QtCreator and press the Run button to try the changes on an embedded device. QtCreator cross-compiles the application, deploys it to the device and runs it on the device. QtCreator
Welcome to Episode 11 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! Germany is going into its second Corona lockdown on Monday. I am fortunate that not much will change for me. Even before Corona (BC), I have been working 75%
"Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify the system." John Ousterhout, The Philosophy of Software Design, Chapter 2 Complexity is also known as technical debt, which
Welcome to Episode 10 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! The newsletter goes out to more than 200 people for the very first, actually more than 215. Your amazing interest keeps me going. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏 The centre