To turn on the platform the red and black buttons must be pressed simultaneously for about three seconds, until the red led turns on. That indicates that the platform is connected, but not its motors necessarily. To turn on the motors the blue button must be pressed until the blue leds is turned on (about a third of a second). Pressing the red button is enough to turn off the platform.

The leds on the right indicate the status of the robot in terms of charge.

• Include the user that is going to run the robot's components is in the group dialout. Logout and log back in.
• Make sure that the udev rules files have been installed (copy file files/777-VIRIATO.rules to etc/udev/rules.d/) and restart the udev service.
• Run files/setDevices1.sh every time you plug/un-plug the Viriato's USB connectors to reset the config files. Bare in mind that although UDEV creates the /dev/viriatoctl and /dev/viriatonrg files, the component must use the actual device files. This scripts makes sure that the files are properly set up.
• The motor controllers' API can be found in https://www.roboteq.com/index.php/docman/motor-controllers-documents-and-files/nxtgen-downloads-1/application-programming-interface/8-linux-api/file