[Tinyos-help] TMote / Telos hardware design question

2006-10-22 Thread Simon Davis
Hello, If a TMote / Telos is plugged into a USB port, 3V appears on U4 - the battery holder connection. If batteries (particularly disposables) are installed, is this going to cause a problem? If the batteries are partially exhausted then there's a danger of a reverse current presumably?

[Tinyos-help] micaz rssi to dB conversion

2006-10-22 Thread Adam Scheuring
Hi, Im wondering if anybody knows a proper formula to convert micaz's RSSI values to dB? (I guess 255 is 0dB, isnt it?) Thanks in advance Adam ___ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Tinyos-help] micaz rssi to dB conversion

2006-10-22 Thread Philip Levis
See the CC2420 data sheet. The RSSI value is a 2's complement number with an offset of -4?, I can't recall if it's -45 or -42. Phil On Oct 22, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Adam Scheuring wrote: Hi, Im wondering if anybody knows a proper formula to convert micaz's RSSI values to dB? (I guess 255 is

[Tinyos-help] Trouble inspecting variables in TOSSIM

2006-10-22 Thread Carlos Perez
Hello, I'm trying to follow the tutorial instructions on inspecting code variables from python using TOSSIM in TinyOS 2.0. When I enter the line: from tinyos.tossim.TossimApp import * I get an error from the python interpreter: ImportError: No module named tinyos.tossim.TossimApp I need this

[Tinyos-help] help with sensor network datasets from experiments

2006-10-22 Thread Manju
Hi, I am performing data mining experiments on the sensor network data. Can anyone give me links to web pages which have datasets collected during experiments? Here are few links which I already know about: 1) http://berkeley.intel-research.net/labdata/ 2)

Re: [Tinyos-help] micaz rssi to dB conversion

2006-10-22 Thread Philip Levis
On Oct 22, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Adam Scheuring wrote: Thanks, thanks, just checked, it is -45. this means that 255 = -1-45=-46 dB and 245 = -56 dB for example, isnt it? Yes. Note, though, that it's *approximately* -45. If you want really precise measurements, ChipCon recommends calibration to

[Tinyos-help] apps/BaseStation does not work after update using CVS

2006-10-22 Thread Tie Luo
After update the whole tinyos 2.x in October, using the develop branch, the apps/BaseStation does not work. In particular, using a Java program to open and write a message to the BaseStation via serial port will return error. While the same code can run on the previous version of tinyos. I have

Re: [Tinyos-help] apps/BaseStation does not work after update using CVS

2006-10-22 Thread Philip Levis
On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Tie Luo wrote: After update the whole tinyos 2.x in October, using the develop branch, the apps/BaseStation does not work. In particular, using a Java program to open and write a message to the BaseStation via serial port will return error. While the same code