Windows 10 IoT Raspberry Pi 2: Autostart published Application

Question

I\'m starting making experience with the Raspberry Pi 2 Development with Windows 10 and I was wondering how can I configurate the Raspberry Pi 2 to autostart my own published ap

Answer 1

The world's easiest way to accomplish this is the following order:

1. open your browser
2. Go to > http://your_RPI2_IP:8080/AppXManager.htm
3. deploy your App from Visual Studio 2015 with configurations as seen here 3.1 to get this screen go to: project --> Properties --> Right click --> Open 4 after succesfull deployment select your startup app in the webManager and your RPI2 restarts

Answer 2

Use IotStartup.exe by Power shell.

1. IotStartup list -> Find out your app name.

2. IotStartup add [YourApp] -> Add App init startup.

3. Reboot.

Answer 3

I was looking at how to do this myself this evening. What I found was that you can edit the Pi's startup through Powershell on your PC and tell it what app to load.

Setting startup app:
Use the startup editor to configure startup apps on your Windows IoT Core device. Run Startup with any of the following options:

Startup /d displays the list of startup apps.

Startup /a [name] [path] adds an app with name name located at path path to the list of startup tasks.

Startup /r [name] removes an app with name name from the list of startup tasks.

For further help, try startup.exe /?

http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/tools/CommandLineUtils.htm

As far as region settings, you can do that while loading up the default screen on the Pi. When you get to the Windows screen, there is a gear icon in the lower right that will bring you there. Unfortunately, there isn't a real time clock built into the Raspberry Pi, so you'd have to add one (hardware) or pull it from the internet.

Answer 4

Something to be warned about.

At the current version, by default Visual Studio generates a random package name for your application, regardless your Project Name. My project's name was HelloWorld but it generated a totally different package name.

The name is a random guid and it is being deployed by that name. You can change that name at Project Properties screen. In this example the package name goes as 7e3bb987-a1b9-4a67-9750492af7c7.

When I remotely connect and run iotstartup list I see that my package is there with that guid name.

I spent some time to find which app is mine, so I wanted to give heads up to others who might encounter the same. Just rename your Package Name to whatever you want and you'll be fine.