[Tinyos-help] How accurate is the MViz Topology figure

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, When I run MViz application, tos-mviz shows the topology of the current sensor network. Is the figure accurate? The reason I ask is because: I have 8 micaz running. I do not change their locations. However, if I run tos-mviz different times, the figure gives me different

[Tinyos-help] how to interprete the sensed light data?

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I use MultihopOscilloscope() to collect some light data. The hardware is Micaz and MTS300. I use Listen to print out the collected data. For example, one reading is A3 03. My question is: how do I interprete this sensed data? what is the unit? Thanks, Chris

[Tinyos-help] One question about MultihopOscilloscope

2008-04-10 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I tried the following with one micaz mote coupled with mts300 sensor board: 1. I upload Oscilloscope application to this micaz+mts300. I can see the green light toggling. That is, whenevern one message is sent, led1 toggles; Everything is fine here. 2. Then I upload MultihopOscilloscope

[Tinyos-help] Using XubunTOS, how to save a screen image?

2008-04-10 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, We have installed XubunTOS (not a virtual machine) and have get some GUI output. We would like to store the screen output into a file. How do we do it under XubunTOS? I can press Print Screen button, but where can we save the file? Thanks, Chris

[Tinyos-help] Set transmission power in CC2420

2008-04-10 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I notice that CC2420PacketC.nc has a setPower() command. If I want to change the transmission power to some value, say 10, do I need to call setPower() for every packet? or call setPower() once is just fine? This question has been discussed before. But no answer is given.

[Tinyos-help] one question about MultihopOscilloscope

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I tried the following with one micaz mote coupled with mts300 sensor board: 1. I upload Oscilloscope application to this micaz+mts300. I can see the green light toggling. That is, whenevern one message is sent, led1 toggles; Everything is fine here. 2. Then I upload MultihopOscilloscope

[Tinyos-help] one question about MViz/tos-mviz

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Yao
I have uploaded MViz code to several micaz motes and let them run with MTS 300 sensor boards. I then upload MViz code to one micaz node A as the base station, in the PC B which connect A, I run java net.tinyos.sf.SerialForwarder. I configued serialforwarder with port 9002 and micaz. In

[Tinyos-help] Where is CC2420RadioC.nc?

2008-03-28 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am reading T2: A second generation OS for embedded sensor networks, which talks about CC2420Radio.nc. However, I cannot find it in current T2 CVS tree... Thanks, Chris Be a better friend,

[Tinyos-help] Plug MTS 300 sensor board to MICAz mote

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am trying the MViz application of TinyOS 2.x. When I plug MTS 300 sensor board into MICAz mote, sometimes I can hear a long beep. sometimes I cannot. Why is the difference? Does this mean something? Thanks, Chris

[Tinyos-help] XBow eKo Professional kit for precision agriculture

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, XBow just releases eKo Professional kit for precision agriculture. Does anyone have any experice with it? Thanks, Chris Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: RSSI propagation model in sensor networks

2008-03-10 Thread Chris Yao
Ken, Thank you so much for your detailed information. I am new to TinyOS. Could you let me know how to measure the RSSI strength of one packet based on TinyOS for MICA motes? Chris Ken Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone point out related paper/data that shows the RSSI

[Tinyos-help] RSSI propagation model in sensor networks

2008-03-09 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, Could someone point out related paper/data that shows the RSSI propagation model in sensor networks? that is, the function of RSSI received powers with distance between two nodes? Thanks, Chris - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with

[Tinyos-help] MultihopOscilloscope and sensor network topology

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, MultihopOscilloscope under TinyOS 2 uses a multihop network topology. I am wondering is there any application that we can use to display the constructed sensor network topology? Thanks, Chris - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them

[Tinyos-help] MultihopOscilloScope and SerialForwarder

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I successfully follow TinyOS 2.x tutorial 5 to make MultihopOscilloScope and SerialForwarder work. That is, mote 0 is attached to the computer. mote 1 sends messages. The GUI can display the reading of both mote 0 and mote 1. However, when I try to modify the Y-Axis range at the

[Tinyos-help] OscilloScope.java and SerialForwarder

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am wondering can OscilloScope.java work with SerialForwarder? If not, is there any program which is like OscilloScope.java, and can work with SerialForwarder? Thanks, Chris - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your

[Tinyos-help] Micaz/Mica2 mote transmission range

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am wondering in Tinyos 2.x, how can we adjust the transmission range of Micaz/Mica2 mote? Thanks, Chris - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.___ Tinyos-help

[Tinyos-help] In Xubuntos2, how to switch from TinyOS 2.x to TinyOS 1.x?

2008-02-13 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I have followed: http://sing.stanford.edu/klueska/installing_xubuntos_vm.html to install Xubuntos2. The default configuration is TinyOS 2.x How do I switch the environment to TinyOS 1.x? Thanks, Chris - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your

[Tinyos-help] TMote Sky and Mica Mote

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am wondering which brand of products is better in terms of application development? TMote Sky or Mica Mote? Please share experience. Best Regards, Chris - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo!

[Tinyos-help] mts300/MicaZ TinyOS 2.x acoustic signal detetion

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, Could someone share application examples to use MTS300/MicaZ on TinyOS 2.x to detect acoustic signals? Thanks, Chris - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.___

[Tinyos-help] How to add the path environment of certain components into TinyOS development?

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Yao
I am using XubunTOS 2.0 on XP. I wrote an application which uses MicC. I am actually using MicaZ. I use TOSSIM to debug my application, and get the following error: component Atm128I2CMasterC not found. component Atm128I2CMasterC is actually under tos/chips/atm128/i2c How do I config this

[Tinyos-help] interface MicC not found

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am working on Microphone of MTS300 on TinyOS 2.x. I wrote an application that uses MicC.nc interface. However, I got interface MicC.nc not found. MicC.nc is under tos/sensorboard/mts300 directory, do I need to configure this path to some environment variable? or what? Thanks for the

[Tinyos-help] Using AMSend.send to unicast a packet to neighbors continuously

2008-01-17 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, Suppose that for sensor node A, its neighbor list is stored in an array neighbor_list[]. The length of neighbor_list[] is LENGTH. Based on http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.x/doc/html/tutorial/lesson3.html, for node A, I use a for loop to unicast a packet to each of A's neighbor,

[Tinyos-help] TOSSIM simulation time

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I use C language to develop a script for TOSSIM. I want the simulation to run 5 seconds. In the C script, based on TOSSIM tutorial, I use 500 in my script. But when I compile, I was told this constant is too large. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris

[Tinyos-help] The largest number of motes TOSSIM can simulate

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am wondering the largest number of motes TOSSIM can simulate. I am using XubunTOS. I write a Driver.c simulation program. It works fine with 4 nodes. When I use 5000 nodes, I have the following code segment in Driver.c #define Num_of_Nodes 5000 ... for

Re: [Tinyos-help] The largest number of motes TOSSIM can simulate

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Yao
am not sure about tinyos-2.x. I would recommend looking at .platform and other make files to see if a similar option is passed on in tinyos-2.x On Jan 10, 2008 9:03 AM, Chris Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering the largest number of motes TOSSIM can simulate. I am

[Tinyos-help] TinyOS 2.0 TestSerial Help

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am using XubunTOS on WinXP to try lesson 4 - TestSerial. I am using MIB520 (usb interface) + micaz mote. AfterI uploading the TestSerial application to one micaz mote using MIB520, and run command: java TestSerial -comm serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:micaz I got: Sending

[Tinyos-help] How to copy file to xubuntos on VMWare

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Yao
I am running WinXP. I have installed XubunTOS 2.0 following: http://sing.stanford.edu/klueska/installing_xubuntos_vm.html The question is: I have some data generated under WinXP. How can I port this data to XubunTOS? one way is: I can copy the data to USB, and access USB under

[Tinyos-help] one question about motelist

2007-12-31 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I run motelist under TinyOs 2.0.2 Cygwin/Windows XP. I got the following errors: error, could not open key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\Vid_0403Pid_6001 why is that? Thanks very much, Chris - Never miss a thing.

[Tinyos-help] Help with Failed to enter programming mode. Tinyos 2.0.2

2007-12-30 Thread Chris Yao
hi, I installed a fresh TinyOS 2.0.2 following www.tinyos.net. and try to upload a code to micaz mote. The first try is working fine. Then with nothing changed, I got the following output continuously. Any help is greatly appreciated. == $ make micaz install

Re: [Tinyos-help] Help with Failed to enter programming mode. Tinyos 2.0.2

2007-12-30 Thread Chris Yao
yes, the srec file is really there. I just checked it. Thanks. Michael Schippling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's of any use errno 2 is ENOENT, is your srec file really there? MS Chris Yao wrote: hi, I installed a fresh TinyOS 2.0.2 following www.tinyos.net . and try to upload a code

[Tinyos-help] one question about TinyOS 1.1.15 ncc after upgrade

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I just upgrade TinyOS 1.1.10 to TinyOS 1.1.15 following www.tinyos.net. Before my upgrade, everything is fine. Now after the upgrade, when I compile the Blink appliacation, I got the following error: === $ make mica2 install MIB510=/dev/ttyS3 mkdir -p build/mica2

[Tinyos-help] TinyOS 1.1.0 and MicaZ

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, Does this directory: http://www.tinyos.net/dist-1.1.0/tinyos/windows/micaz-installer/ means that we can make Micaz mote work on TinyOS 1.1.0? Thanks, Chris - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your

[Tinyos-help] flash error when uploading binary to mica2 mote

2007-12-26 Thread Chris Yao
hi, I am new to mica2/tinyos. I got the following errors when trying to uploading binary to mica2 using MIB 510. What is wrong? Thanks. == $ make mica2 install mib510,/dev/ttyS0 compiling Blink to a mica2 binary ncc -o build/mica2/main.exe -Os -board=micasb

[Tinyos-help] one question about using MIB520

2007-12-26 Thread Chris Yao
hi, on xbow's MIB 520 board, there is one: warning: damage will occur if MICA Battery is on and MIB 520 is using USB bus power. But, in order to upload code to mote through MIB 520, we have to turn on the power of MICA and let MIB 520 using USB power, right? Thanks.

[Tinyos-help] large number modular and multiplication operations

2007-07-19 Thread Chris Yao
hi, I am wondering is there any implementation of large number (16 byte) modular and multiplication operations in TinyOS? Thanks, Chris - Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder

[Tinyos-help] one strange question when using MoteWorks

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I use MoteWorks, Tools/shell to upload lesson_1, as follows: = ide.pl Ver:$Id: ide.pl,v 1.1.2.1 2006/05/29 07:22:52 lwei Exp $ Executing: /opt/MoteWorks/apps/tutorials/lesson_1/ bash -c make mica2 reinstall mib510,COM1 cp

RE: [Tinyos-help] one strange question when using MoteWorks

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Yao
: The command line arguments are case sensitive. Try make mica2 reinstall mib510,com1 or make mica2 reinstall mib510,/dev/ttyS0 instead and see if it works. - Giri - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Yao Sent

RE: [Tinyos-help] one strange question when using MoteWorks

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Yao
- From: Chris Yao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:12 PM To: Giri Baleri Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: RE: [Tinyos-help] one strange question when using MoteWorks Giri, thanks for your reply. I tried

RE: [Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Yao
)? - Try make mica2 reinstall mib510,/dev/ttyS0 instead and see if that helps. Giri - From: Chris Yao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:02 PM To: Giri Baleri Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: RE: [Tinyos-help] help

[Tinyos-help] stuck of uisp in both cygwin and moteworks

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Yao
hi, I tried the lesson_3, a simple application in MoteWorks, using both CygWin and MoteWorks. For example, in CygWin, I have the following: == $ make mica2 install,3 mib510,com1 mkdir -p build/mica2 compiling MyApp to a mica2 binary ncc -o

[Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Yao
Hi, I am new to TinyOS. I just installed MoteWorks (from www.xbow.com) on my Windows XP. However, I have the following two problems: 1. After I double click Cygwin button: I got the following error: C:\Crossbow\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (2308): *** fork: can't reserve memory for

RE: [Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Yao
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Yao Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:29 AM To: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: [Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks Hi, I am new to TinyOS. I just installed MoteWorks (from www.xbow.com) on my Windows XP. However, I have the following two problems

RE: [Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Yao
- From: Chris Yao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:36 PM To: Giri Baleri Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: RE: [Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks Hi Giri, Thanks for your reply. Several months ago, I installed cygwin and tinyos

[Tinyos-help] MoteWorks and TinyOs/Cygwin

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Yao
hi, I am wondering what is the difference between the following two: 1. install TinyOS and Cygwin to develop applications; 2. install MoteWorks to develop applications which one is better? more powerful? Sorry for the silly question, I am new to MoteWorks. Thanks,

RE: [Tinyos-help] help of MoteWorks

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Yao
. Roboot the PC and then reinstall MoteWorks. Try compiling MoteWorks apps now. Giri - From: Chris Yao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:36 PM To: Giri Baleri Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: RE: [Tinyos-help