BOW Hub

This page gives an overview of the BOW Hub application, what it does and how to use it.

What is the BOW Hub?

As its name suggests, the BOW Hub is an application which acts as a centre for all things BOW related. The BOW Hub provides:

• Notification of updates available for the Hub, Sim, Apps, SDKs and Simulated Robot Drivers.
• Instructions on how to install the BOW SDK for your chosen language or languages
• Launchers for the BOW Sim and the BOW Apps
• Website links to this documentation and to our tutorials repository
• Constantly updated list of currently active robots
• Easy way to select a robot as the target for the next quick connect function

BOW Hub is an unobtrusive application which appears only as a system tray icon and associated menu. Once you have logged in it will periodically check to see which of the robots associated with your account is online, active and ready to connect.

How to use BOW Hub

Below is a diagram showing the open BOW Hub menu and what each menu item does.

We have grouped the different sets of functionality provided under multiple headings to make it easy to navigate.

Installing BOW Hub

For instructions on how to install the BOW Hub on your system visit the appropriate "Setting up your BOW developer environment" on our getting started page.