NVIDIA Jetson TX2

We have a remotely manageable NVIDIA Jetson TX2 kit. You can remotely power on/off and reset the board. Also the serial debug interface is available through the SSH connection. Maintainer of this board is Martin Vajnar. If you want to get access to the board or something does not work as expected, contact him.

The TX2 is connected to a local network accessible from rtime.felk.cvut.cz server.

Only single user can be logged remotely at the same time using the following procedure. In case another user is already logged in you will see a message indicating this and you will be granted access to the kit as soon as the other user disconnects.

Remote SSH access to the TX2

For remote access to the kit you need to follow these steps:

1. Use Linux distribution and have SSH client installed. On Debian-based distributions you can use the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-client

2. Generate a public/private SSH keypair.

$ ssh-keygen

3. Send the generated public key to Martin Vajnar. You should get a response afterwards indicating, that You now have access to the TX2.

4. Now You can remotely access the TX2 by issuing the following commands:

To power on the kit use:

$ ssh tx2@rtime.felk.cvut.cz on

To forcefully power off the kit (i.e. equivalent to holding the power button on the TX2 for a few seconds) use:

$ ssh tx2@rtime.felk.cvut.cz off

To reset the kit use:

$ ssh tx2@rtime.felk.cvut.cz reset

To gain access to the serial command line use:

$ ssh tx2@rtime.felk.cvut.cz

In order to login through SSH to TX2 You need to use a slightly modified version of the previous command:

$ ssh -L 2222:10.35.95.105:22 tx2@rtime.felk.cvut.cz

This command will open a remote serial console on the TX2 and forward port 22 (used by SSH server) to port 2222 your local machine. Then you can finally connect to the TX2 thorugh SSH by opening another terminal and issuing the following command (do no disconnect the previous ssh connection, otherwise the port forwarding from the internal CTU network will stop working):

$ ssh nvidia@localhost

You can use whatever user account on the TX2 you want instead of 'nvidia'.