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Post-Install

Once you have finished installing the BOW Hub and completed your first login you will be prompted with the first-run wizard. This wizard will guide you through the basic operation of using the BOW Hub!

First Run Steps

Download and Compile the simulated robot drivers

The first step of the wizard will prompt you and then automatically download and compile all the available bow drivers for our simulation environment. Our installer handles any compilation dependencies so you do not need anything other than the BOW Hub installed.

BOW First Run: First Step

BOW First Run: First Step Compilation

Once the download and compilation step is complete you will receive a completion notification in your notification tray.

BOW First Run: First Step Complete

Launch your first Robot Simulation

With the BOW Drivers downloaded and compiled for your system you can open up the BOW Hub from your system tray and select the "BOW-Webots Simulator" menu item. This will launch our customised version of the Open Source Webots Robotics Simulator. This simulator will open and run a simulated version of the Lite3 Robot from DEEP Robotics.

BOW Hub Webots Simulator Menu Item Highlighted

Select & Connect to your Simulated Robot

Once the BOW-Webots sim has launched you should see a view that looks similar to below:

BOW Webots Simulator Default View

Once you can see a regular message being printed to the console located in the lower section of the window, the driver has started. Check the BOW Hub to see if the robot is listed in the available robot section as shown below.

BOW Hub Simulated Lite 3 Available

If you are unable to see the "Lite 3 Sim" entry in your available robots section. The driver may have failed to start. If it has ensure that you have a Standard Subscription or Higher otherwise contact [email protected]

With the Robot now available you can select that robot by clicking on the Robot in the available robots section. Every robot, simulated or real, will appear in the available robots section as long as its online and active.

If you only have one robot available the Hub will automatically select that robot as available to the SDK!

Next Steps

With the first run complete, feel free to explore our SDK Reference or check out our Tutorials for projects to run next.

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