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Tools
Two tools for installing and inspecting builds on Board hardware. Board Connect is the recommended developer workflow. bdb is the legacy command-line tool.
Board Connect (recommended)
A web app plus HTTP API for working with a Board device from your computer. Pair once, then install builds, stream logs, and drive the device from your dev workflow without USB cables or platform-specific tooling. Works the same regardless of which SDK you build with.
This is the forward path. New workflows, scripts, and integrations should be built on Board Connect.
→ Get started with Board Connect
bdb (legacy)
The original USB-based command-line tool: bdb install, bdb launch, bdb logs. Still functional and documented, but it is being phased out in favor of Board Connect and may be deprecated in a future release. Don’t build new workflows on bdb — use Board Connect for anything you’d otherwise script around.
If you have an existing bdb-based workflow, it will keep working for the foreseeable future, and migrating to Board Connect is straightforward whenever you’re ready.