Jetson Xavier NX Lesson 1: Introduction and First Boot for Beginners

[@onuberonly7846]

You are the best sir. Giving your time and energy to properly teach people is very admirable.

[@opalprestonshirley1700]

Can't afford the new Xavier but will follow all the way. Excited to see what the new one can do and at my age it's hard to find stimulating subjects. You the man Paul.

[@westmorland_]

Yep, it's a bit pricey for me too right now. Hopefully most things will run on the Nano.

[@ricardobjorkeheim775]

I run this 15 lessons with an Jetson Nano without any performance issues. Is very important ta use the correct Jetpack version. They have the same number series in Xavier and Nano.

[@sashamuller9743]

went from videos in 2016 to now and wow the upgrades XD good job

[@thomascoyle3715]

Hi Paul, received my Xavier NX and WD 250GB SSD today from Amazon. Following your instructions I had the Xavier up and running the Jetpack 4.4 OS in no time. I also installed, formatted and partitioned the WD SSD drive. I made one large drive of 240GB and left 10GB un-partitioned.

[@paulmcwhorter]

You should be good to go. Love the Xavier.

[@thomascoyle3715]

@@paulmcwhorter Thanks Paul. I have not setup the WD SSD to run the OS after boot up from the SD card as any changes in the Jetpack 4.4 will not be reflected in the OS running on the SSD unfortunately. Maybe it will be best to wait until we can run the OS directly from the SSD at boot up?

[@morthim]

giving a thumbs up and comment to help this one take off. again i especially appreciate you making this extension to the nano series. this should be great stuff

[@maker.kylesu]

The best Nvidia Jetson lessons.

[@pralaymajumdar7822]

Great knowledge u have...we r so fortunate to get you sir..Thank u & carry on your best work.

[@sgodsell2]

5:40 You said you need to boot from the Micro SD card. However I believe the Jetson NX comes with 16 GB of Emmc 5.1 storage as well. So you should be able to boot from the Emmc 5.1 storage, and then switch over to your 250 gb m.2 drive. So you don't need to boot from the micro SD card. Initially you do, in order to setup the system, but afterwards you don't.

[@aidanmacdougall5530]

cheers my man, very nice to have a walk through for the first time

[@paulmcwhorter]

Glad I could help

[@markdion3344]

Wow man 7/30/20 few months behind. Got past lesson 1. Very excited Thank you. A few upgrades or changes along the way. You did say do everything exactly. We will see

[@mikeb5556]

If the rest are like the first two I say "pretty darn good". Thanks for these.

[@xacompany]

Thumbs up! please never stop!

[@timlabi23]

This was well put. Thank you

[@jeroentaverne8232]

Why formatting the card? The filesystem is overwritten again by the NVidia SD card image.

[@BudoBoy0007]

I spend a lot of time searching for the intro song music, and it is "tattoo" by frankie rage & the street angels

[@misckicirina]

Great tutorials, we learn a lot from you! Thank you!

[@architjaiswal5952]

I am using the Xavier NX and rasp pi camera v2.1. I followed all your steps till 54:40, but I am getting an error for the command at 54:47. Terminal says no camera available. The camera is connected properly in slot 1 exactly as you showed in video. One of the terminal message is " GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 18:10:01.143: gst_mini_object_set_qdata: assertion 'object != NULL' failed"

[@victorwilliams5131]

i have al of the development board and i'm having fun working the lesson

[@user-cx3ds6rt8o]

Hello sir, I have followed the same commands but I am not able to open raspberry pi camera rev 1.3, here I am working with VVDN-JXN-NX development system which has Nvidia JETSON XAVIER NX SOM module.

[@benjamingracia8230]

excellent work , keep inspiring people to create

[@oueslatichaima1991]

thank you for this video, i use camera rasberry PI wide angle with the Jetson Xavier. I have a question please when i run the commande gst-launch-1.0 i get this error Warning erroneous pipeline : syntaxe error. can any one help me

[@mattizzle81]

I am very intrigued by this board, even though I have TWO Jetson Nano boards collecting dust. The AGX Xavier has 32GB of RAM though and really isn't *that* much more expensive, which makes it a tough decision between the two.

[@CodingScientist]

mattizzle Soda I think Paul will be using Xavier NX not the Xavier AGX

[@curtishorn1267]

Just about twice the price. Might be worth it depending not he application.

[@thomascoyle3715]

@@curtishorn1267 The NVIDIA Xavier NX, which includes the power supply plus the heat sink fan is $399 with free shipping on Amazon Prime. The Jetson Nano costs between $99 and $108 (depending on the day of the week) with free shipping on Amazon Prime. To the Jetson Nano you have to add a power supply, a case, the Intel WiFi module, and a thermally controlled fan (to be the same as the Xavier) which adds another ~$50 to the Nano total cost. So the Xavier NX is hardly twice the price of the Nano Worst case price of the Nano is ~$160 and the Xavier NX is $399 for a $240 difference between the two.

[@laurajovaniestaciocerquin8510]

Thank you so much for the nice explanation! I am learning a lot from you :)

[@kishorekumarkadari405]

I don't see a sd card slot for my Jetson Xavier NX development kit board, is it possible to get without sd card slot?

[@gjd54321]

Hi Paul. Ordered a Xavier and got it on the 8/18; then waited for all the other essentials to arrive incl the SSD. I followed your instructions but when it was time to plug in the power, the board did not boot. Had a chat with a NVIDIA agent, who was not able to solve the problem. Called Amazon who connected me immediately with NVIDIA technical support. It turned out that others also had this problem of board not booting when connected to Mac Pro running Catelina and a Samsung monitor. In the end NVIDIA wanted me to return the board and will replace it. I am waiting for the replacement board to arrive...Just wanted you to know that you have Mac users in your audience and not all boards boot as easily as you showed!

[@miguelribeiro8771]

i have the same problem, dont show the nvidia logo, dont start... its sad...

[@PokeTrainerMody]

I have booted up and set up my Jetson without SD card, If I want to swap to SD-Card booting, is it possible? or can I just use the SD card as extra storage and keep it to booting up natively

[@junghoonoh5801]

Thank you so much for all your kind explanation!

[@paulmcwhorter]

You're very welcome!

[@gamekida4007]

hey Paul, amazing video. can you make one with the SDK manager installtion! thanks

[@stevehaidara8418]

hello Paul ! thx you for this video, when i download Jetson version 441, im beginning with mount media error and my sci cam is not detected, i dont now why i have this error, thank your time

[@Sikuq]

Impeccable, Paul.

[@specsix]

Hi Paul. When you run jtop and go to the INFO tab, does your OpenCV show compiled with cuda? I just got an NX today and noticed OpenCV is NOT compiled with cuda. I wonder why they do that.

[@rutvinathvani1137]

Sir...is it possible to use SD card that I previously used in Jetson Nano same used in Jetson Xavier NX means jetson Nano OS support in jetson Xavier NX??

[@user-yl1dr6ko4k]

hi thank you for lessons. i want to know how to use eCAM50 cunx . i bought it but cant use..

[@henkoegema6390]

Do all these Jetson Xavier lessons also apply to Jetson Nano 4GB? (In addition to your excellent Jetson Nano lessons)

[@paulmcwhorter]

It should be mostly the same.

[@mxcollin95]

I dig the new background! 👍

[@akhileshagnihotri1378]

Please tell me Jetson Xavier nx can be good option for full time use as personal computer for me . I am a software engineer and iot devloper. Should I purchase jetson Xavier nx instead of Laptop or computer. because I have law budget options

[@Bob-zg2zf]

Man, so cool

[@reemalshanbari]

You are AMAZING!

[@kooshough5893]

Im, ready to trumble

[@r.j.austerman68]

So can a complete beginner start with this series on the Xavier NX, or should I go through the Nano stuff first? Can I do the Nano lessons using the Xavier NX? Thanks, looking forward to start learning.

[@paulmcwhorter]

A complete beginner can start with these lessons. Then there is some more advanced stuff I do in later lessons on the Jetson Nano series, so after you finish these lessons, you might check out the more advanded lessons over there.

[@TommySnow-uj7zn]

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[@vijaysathvikab5866]

Please make more arduino videos --India

[@codecage9333]

So the Xavier NX has embedded WiFi and we don't need to purchase a WiFi board separately as with the Nano? What about connections for external antennae? If using where you might need the extended range capabilities afforded by external antennae, the Nano would be a better choice. Amazon says maybe June 11 before I can expect delivery! How many have their Xavier NX kits already?

[@paulmcwhorter]

It has a little wifi card on the bottom, and antenna are in the plastic base. I think I showed that on the previous review video. I believe it comes with the wifi card, but check to make sure. Mine was a pre-release, so just confirm the production model comes with the card. I believe it does

[@codecage9333]

@@paulmcwhorter Thanks Paul, I'll have to review the earlier video. Don't remember that about the wifi, but then again at my age that seems to be the norm! :-)

[@TheOleHermit]

Mine arrived with the M.2 WiFi board and 2 small flat antenna. I found a Nano case on amazon that fits perfectly. But, the base that houses the Xavier NX's WiFi antenna must be removed. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07THNDPNN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I ordered two external antenna that the case has holes for. Be careful to ensure that the antenna are M.2 NGFF card compliant and not PCIe. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TZM5ZHZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[@vvwording4844]

Almost get to the end - finally, but then I see nothing on the screen, but according to the terminal I should see a picture: gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc ! nvoverlaysink Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... New clock: GstSystemClock GST_ARGUS: Creating output stream CONSUMER: Waiting until producer is connected... GST_ARGUS: Available Sensor modes : GST_ARGUS: 3264 x 2464 FR = 21.000000 fps Duration = 47619048 ; Analog Gain range min 1.000000, max 10.625000; Exposure Range min 13000, max 683709000; GST_ARGUS: 3264 x 1848 FR = 28.000001 fps Duration = 35714284 ; Analog Gain range min 1.000000, max 10.625000; Exposure Range min 13000, max 683709000; GST_ARGUS: 1920 x 1080 FR = 29.999999 fps Duration = 33333334 ; Analog Gain range min 1.000000, max 10.625000; Exposure Range min 13000, max 683709000; GST_ARGUS: 1280 x 720 FR = 59.999999 fps Duration = 16666667 ; Analog Gain range min 1.000000, max 10.625000; Exposure Range min 13000, max 683709000; GST_ARGUS: 1280 x 720 FR = 120.000005 fps Duration = 8333333 ; Analog Gain range min 1.000000, max 10.625000; Exposure Range min 13000, max 683709000; GST_ARGUS: Running with following settings: Camera index = 0 Camera mode = 2 Output Stream W = 1920 H = 1080 seconds to Run = 0 Frame Rate = 29.999999 GST_ARGUS: Setup Complete, Starting captures for 0 seconds GST_ARGUS: Starting repeat capture requests. CONSUMER: Producer has connected; continuing. And every time, then I close it with Ctrl C so I think I've closed properly. Any ideas?

[@heofonlicht]

I'm running into this exact same issue, and I've been banging my head against this problem all day. Did you end up resolving this issue?

[@weihongchin8140]

Can I use jetson tx2 to follow this series tutorial?

[@TheOleHermit]

Just received my Xavier NX Dev Kit yesterday.🥳 Getting up and running was literally as easy as Pi. Only problem is being unable to configure the panel, aka taskbar. KZbin video playback is choppy above 720p on Chromium. Waiting for better WiFi antennas to arrive. Online documentation is awesomely overwhelming. Looks like I need to install ffmpeg. Haven't made it to the support forum, yet. But, otherwise very impressed. Would like to boot from eMMC and run everything else on the M.2 1TB NVMe SSD. Need do that with the SDK Manager, with a USB connection to a host running "Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 and 18.04 on x64 system"? 🥺 How about a RPi 4, w/Ubuntu 20?🤔 Why not boot from uSD, then zcat the image stored on the SSD and dd it onto the eMMC? 😉New SBCs are always like wading through muddy water, aren't they? Anyway, I'm right on your heels and looking forward to your next episode. Thanks for hitting all the details.😎

[@paulmcwhorter]

Really this is bleeding edge technology, and everything is somewhat confused, and not everything works perfectly. The challenge is to figure out the things that dont work because I dont understand them, vs the things that dont work because it is bleeding edge technology and still has some bugs. That is why I make these videos simple and methodical. It is absolutely overwhelming to go to the NVIDIA web site. . . oh you should be using dockers and containers and deepstream and transfer learning and almost impossible to figure out even simple things like how to really use gstreamer. Hence, I go through a lot of pain to try and guide people along a path that actually is understandable and that works. I spent a week trying to understand deepstream and gave up finally and will just contine with openCV and gstreamer

[@TheOleHermit]

@@paulmcwhorter IOW, we're both rowing together in the same boat. lol. Looks like this one has a pretty stable keel, a broad bow, and deep girth... much better than some other leaky SBCs, where I've quickly found myself in over my head and drowning in Chinese. Just keep on rowing, Paul. We'll get there.😎

[@paulmcwhorter]

Yep a few years ago a tiny board called the 'onion' came out and it really stank. I wasted two weeks trying to tame that beast with no luck. Luckily so far the jetpack 4.4 works well on the Xavier NX. However, I have great trouble with jetpack 4.4 on Jetson Nano. So, my nano is running Jetpack 4.3 while my Xavier is jetpack 4.4. I did set up the SDK software for flashing cards, but have not seen any real advantage so just juse Balena etcher and the standard Jetpack image.

[@TheOleHermit]

@@paulmcwhorter My nemesis was the Rock Pi 4B.😫 I'll never get another RK3399. Others say they love it.

[@CodingScientist]

Great job Paul, so is this gonna be separate series of lessons using Xavier NX in addition to AI on Jetson Nano ?

[@paulmcwhorter]

Yes. I will continue the Nano series. Also, what you learned on nano would apply to NX.

[@CodingScientist]

Paul McWhorter so in that case I have to keep aside Nano hardware and procure NX ? or we can continue the lessons in Nano ? please advise

[@CodingScientist]

Dear Paul, would you be showing us how to install and configure SSD in Xavier NX ?

[@TheOleHermit]

@@CodingScientist I simply installed the NVMe SSD into the M.2 connector, flashed the boot uSD card, initialized Ubuntu, and "BOOM!" the 1TB SSD was there and usable.

[@thomascoyle3715]

@@CodingScientist The following Jetson Hacks tutorial will show you how to setup the SSD so that once you are booted up on the SD card, the system kernel image will run from the SSD speeding things up: www.jetsonhacks.com/2020/05/29/jetson-xavier-nx-run-from-ssd/

[@miguelribeiro8771]

I find it unlikely to help me with an old subject, but, come on. I did your step by step until the time to turn on the Jetson, it appears to be on, but no image appears on the screen, not even the nvidia logo or anything, this is strange until you see that the other components do not light up the led

[@paulmcwhorter]

I have 316,000 subscribers and millions of viewers. I can not provide technical support. Go to the NVIDIA forums and see if you can get help

[@gjd54321]

Received a new Jetson Xavier NX after the first one did not boot. I followed your lesson 1 to the letter until minute 33: formated the SD card, flashed the Jetpack on it; pluggined in the camera, the HDMI cable, a keyboard and the power supply. Green light on Xavier is on but I get no boot! I using a Power Mac with Samsung monitor instead of a Windows PC. How do I get this board to boot? Do I need to open a Terminal window or what additional steps are necessary to get this Xavier to boot when connected with a Mac?

[@paulmcwhorter]

It does not need to be connected to any computer to boot, just the screen. You want to make sure you have a properly flashed SD card, that had been properly fomrated. Then you want to make sure you have adequate power supply. It should work

[@gjd54321]

Hi Paul. That is the setup I have. No connection to Mac only to Samsung monitor with HDMI. Should the fan start up on power? I used the power cables that came with Xavier. Should I open a terminal window? How do I verify what is on the SD? I literally followed every step in your tutorial. I tried ALT-CTR-DEL three times as suggested in the forums...no boot.

[@paulmcwhorter]

Try a different SD card, and format and flash. If that does not work, you should probably contact NVIDIA customer support.

[@gjd54321]

@@paulmcwhorter I reformatted the SD, re-flashed the card and did contact NVIDIA support. Problem seems to be I got one Samsung display connected with VGA to Power Mac and same display with HDMI cable connected to Xavier board. How to get dual mode screen OR are you using dual displays in order to get single monitor console? Maybe Xavier is booting right but I don't see it as I do not have a single monitor console.

[@gjd54321]

Paul You have your Windows based PC hooked to a display using probably a VGA cable. You also have an HDMI cable connected to your display used to connect to the Xavier board, right? How do you get your display to use the HDMI to allow for the boot up of the Xavier? Do you change the input source to the display? Jut found the solution: you forgot to say in your Tutorial that you need to switch the input source to your display...

[@luisarellano09]

This is so great!!

[@johndraper8197]

sd card formatter - don't have access to Win or Mac only Linux! Is there any formatter usable for this OS? If not this is a game changer for me considering purchase (no linux no purchse!!)

[@paulmcwhorter]

Just format it on Linux, and then Balena Etcher runs on linux. If you have linux you have no problems. Also, you can probably do a dd comand and not even have to use balena etcher. The problem IS windows

[@codecage9333]

What do you use under linux to format and install the Xavier image? Looks like my Xavier might arrive today!

[@paulmcwhorter]

I set up a computer on Ubuntu 16 and then installed the NVIDIA SDK manager software. Then you can burn an image right to the Nano or Xavier from the SDK manager. I have it working, but have not found any advantage over just flashing the jetpack image using Balena etcher like on the nano.

[@billkellogg1403]

Hi Paul, I use Fusion 360 extensively (thanks to you). I am tired of burning through PC’s because of lacking video card capability. Jumping ahead, would this be a viable option on which to run F360? I assume its components are upgradable. Thank you!

[@paulmcwhorter]

I am not sure if fusion 360 has a linux option. Hence, not sure it would work.

[@billkellogg1403]

oh! Showing my ignorance! But you are kind! 😊

[@TheKirkster96]

I just got the Xavier NX, followed this guide and then after booting into the desktop it asked for a system reboot. Then it got stuck into a boot loop and now I don't see the NVIDIA logo anymore. I tried searching the forums and I tried re-flashing and the board just doesn't post anymore. Can someone recommend how to fix this?

[@paulmcwhorter]

Might start with a different SD card. I have had problems with corrupted SD cards. Secondly make sure you a a proper power supply. If that does not work, you might have a bad board. I have had trouble with SD cards, so make sure to start with a different card and see if that helps.

[@r.j.austerman68]

I had this problem and it resolved after shutting it off and powering back on.

[@codecage9333]

Have you considered changing to booting from SSD?

[@paulmcwhorter]

No because the sd card still has to be in. When they have a true-boot from SSD I will do it.

[@codecage9333]

@@paulmcwhorter Thanks for the quick response. And my Xavier NX arrived late Saturday afternoon, so in the process of setting it up. Should be ready to roll, NOT RUMBLE, with lesson 4 on Wednesday.

[@thomascoyle3715]

@@paulmcwhorter In which tutorial did you install the WD SSD?

[@thomascoyle3715]

@@paulmcwhorter Even though we can't presently boot from the SSD, the kernel image can still be run from the SSD, for faster response times, after boot up. This Jetson Hacks tutorial explains how to do so: www.jetsonhacks.com/2020/05/29/jetson-xavier-nx-run-from-ssd/

[@vvwording4844]

Paul, you young folks have me left back in the dust. Trying to use pip, and the console tells me I've installed pip, but when I try to install jtop, it says it can't find pip. I tried using python3-pip but no luck. Any suggestions?

[@paulmcwhorter]

really hard to say. Watch that part of the video again. Install pip again, make sure you do it exactly like I show. Then use pip to install jtop exactly like I showed. That is like two commands, but they have to be done exactly

[@prematureYeet]

33:30

[@wishicouldarduino8880]

Its awesome but a little expensive but very cool and no I won't copy and paste I promise lol and yes ai is cool and complicated but very fun 😁👍 thanks 👍

[@paulmcwhorter]

Good place to start is the Jetson Nano. You can do a whole lot on that.

[@wishicouldarduino8880]

@@paulmcwhorter yes I'm only on the nano this is a little advanced for me yet but I have a nano on the duce robot soon hopefully this summer I hope to get duce out and start selling what ? ..........fun.......fun and wonderment only for the price of smiles .👍😁👍

[@70corwin]

Is the Jetson Xavier NX really $2000.00 ?? This class might be out of my price range??

[@paulmcwhorter]

Xavier should be about $350 and the Jetson about $99 in normal circumstances. Due to chip shortages, prices are high, if you can find one.

[@70corwin]

@@paulmcwhorter Ok cool !! thats not so bad. I'll just have to wait and see if this crazy world ever gets back to normal?? I've got plenty of your other classes to still take and some to re-do! Thanks for always replying!! Its awesome having the host/teacher that responds to the questions. Thanks again!

[@martingosnell2937]

Apologies i should have added these comments to Lesson 2

[@bsp894]

Paul, thank you so much for this video. Followed all the instructions in the video, but still not successful with my first boot. Tried two different SD cards (Samsung 256 GB and SanDisk 32 GB). Not sure what am I missing?

[@paulmcwhorter]

You are formatting the card with SDformatter, and are flashing the jetpack 4.4 , Xavier edition?

[@bsp894]

@@paulmcwhorter yes

[@paulmcwhorter]

I have never heard of one having hardware problems. But, if you formatted with SDformatter, burned image with Balena etcher, and used the jetpack for the Xavier and it does not work, perhaps a hardware problem. Does the green light come on when you plug power supply in? You might have to contact NVIDIA technical support and see if they have any other ideas. Good news is they will stand behind the product if there is a problem

[@bsp894]

@@paulmcwhorter Yes the green light is coming. Fan is also turning on and off automatically. But nothing comes up on the screen. Will check with NVIDIA. Thanks!!

[@bsp894]

@UCfYfK0tzHZTpNFrc_NDKfTA It was monitor issue. I was using HDMI to vga adapter to connect to my old monitor. Read somewhere that Display Port to VGA works fine. Tried it and it worked.

[@tlturner3]

Why iced coffee? :)

[@paulmcwhorter]

Because it is delicious and good for you.

[@tlturner3]

@@paulmcwhorter Nice!

[@modraccin9514]

Looks like the SD card has a lot of ...space

[@morthim]

also does anyone here know about neural network training on FPGAs? i was looking at this old video kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZqmmpl6bcyNZrM it is from intel, and some of the results sounded kinda good, but maybe i don't have the right perspective. also i was thinking about whether fpga training would allow easier transfer of trained results to dedicated circuitry. let me know your thoughts, also if anyone has some good sources let me know.

[@ushachandramohanan1187]

does anybody is from india

[@abbyrai3489]

put it in 2x you'll get through the slow talking faster :)

[@busingyejoseph4555]

You talking to much than the real needed information teacher

[@paulmcwhorter]

What part of first boot for BEGINNERS did you not understand? This is for beginners. If that is not you, you should find a different series of lessons, rather than simply sit and complain.