Re: [Tinyos-help] MAC address to nodeID

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Polastre
anks again for your help. > -T. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Joe Polastre > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:01 PM > To: Liu, Ping (GE, Research) > Cc: tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Tinyos-

Re: [Tinyos-help] MAC address to nodeID

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Polastre
-- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Joe Polastre > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:23 PM > To: Liu, Ping (GE, Research) > Cc: tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] MAC address to nodeID > > > I can't co

Re: [Tinyos-help] ADC sampling rate

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Polastre
> I don't know about DMA. That sounds like something that no decent > micro-Controller should have intercourse with. To educate you on the benefits of DMA controllers, I suggest the following references: Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne CC2430 DMA,

Re: [Tinyos-help] MAC addresses

2006-01-28 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi John, You will need to include a MAC address source field in your message type. Then fill it in with the MAC address as per the following information sent in a previous email: https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tinyos-help/2005-April/008913.html -Joe On 1/28/06, John Austen <[

Re: [Tinyos-help] documentation about Drip

2006-01-30 Thread Joe Polastre
My CVS does not have apps/TestDrip which is required by net.tinyos.drip.* to compile (according to the Makefile). apps/TestDripDrain does exist, however. -Joe On 1/30/06, Gilman Tolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm the Drip author, and it seems like the README file wasn't included > in the Tin

Re: [Tinyos-help] documentation about Drip

2006-01-31 Thread Joe Polastre
eads-up. It's checked into CVS now. > > Gil > > On 1/30/06, Joe Polastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My CVS does not have apps/TestDrip which is required by > > net.tinyos.drip.* to compile (according to the Makefile). > > apps/TestDripDrain does exist, howev

Re: [Tinyos-help] SerialForwarder not work

2006-02-02 Thread Joe Polastre
What does motelist output? -Joe On 2/2/06, L Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a tmote sky running CntToLedsAndRfm connected to my pc at COM6, then > I run > " java net.tinyos.sf.SerialForwarder -comm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmote". But the > java > application window shows: > _

Re: [Tinyos-help] documentation about Drip

2006-02-02 Thread Joe Polastre
On 2/2/06, Gilman Tolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, were I to write Drip over again today, I'd do it, if for no > other reason than that having a source address field in the packet > would make debugging and management easier. You could just set a flag if the msg comes through a UART int

Re: [Tinyos-help] Getting the User Button to work

2006-02-03 Thread Joe Polastre
see tinyos-1.x/apps/CountRadio/CountInput*.nc -Joe On 2/3/06, Colin Couper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could some-one tell me how I get the user button on the Tmote sky to work? > I'm trying to get it to work as a digital input i.e. active high so I can > see what kind of data transfer I get bet

Re: [Tinyos-help] result_t vs. bool

2006-02-06 Thread Joe Polastre
result_t can potentially take on more values than SUCCESS and FAIL. This is the direction tinyos-2.x is heading. bool is typically used for "isFunction()" where it makes sense to have a TRUE or FALSE return type, such as "isRunning()", where SUCCESS and FAIL (from a logic perspective) don't provi

Re: [Tinyos-help] result_t vs. bool

2006-02-06 Thread Joe Polastre
unsigned int is a different size depending on the underlying microcontroller. -Joe On 2/6/06, Martin Gercke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, > > so what is the deal with this: > typedef u_int16_t uint16_t (tos\system\tos.h) > > In addition what is the difference between unsigned int and

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tmotes: motelist command not found

2006-02-06 Thread Joe Polastre
Where is motelist installed on your system? -Joe On 2/6/06, Emiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed tinyos following the instruction provided on the moteiv web site > and I'm trying to run SurgeTelos. I get an error and in the following there > is the log: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tmotes: motelist command not found

2006-02-06 Thread Joe Polastre
http://www.moteiv.com/community/Tmote_Linux_install -Joe On 2/6/06, Emiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just figured out that motelist is not installed because I'm using Fedora > c4. So I guess I need motelist-linux2 but there isn't any motelist-linux2 > inside $TOSROOT/tools/src/motelist/

Re: [Tinyos-help] internal error: unsupported relocation error

2006-02-16 Thread Joe Polastre
Unaligned memory access. All words must be accessed on word boundaries. Remove __attribute(__packed__) from your application. See the tinyos-help archives for more info. -Joe On 2/16/06, Jacob Sorber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just started getting this error when I am building an applicati

Re: [Tinyos-help] CC1000 Change Frequency

2006-02-20 Thread Joe Polastre
Interface CC1000Control: /** * Tune the radio to a given frequency. Since the CC1000 uses a digital * frequency synthesizer, it cannot tune to just an arbitrary frequency. * This routine will determine the closest achievable channel, compute * the necessary parameters and tune the ra

Re: [Tinyos-help] Telos for Java

2006-02-20 Thread Joe Polastre
--target=telos in the Makefile when running mig/ncg -Joe On 2/5/06, Chang Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Current default make of Java in TinyOS within cygwin is micaz platform. How > can I modify files to generate Java compiled library for Telos platform as > default make? > >

Re: [Tinyos-help] Generating TOS message packets externally

2006-02-21 Thread Joe Polastre
Are you using the mig/java tools? If not, I recommend that approach as it automatically generates most of the things you need. For an example, see tinyos-1.x/contrib/ucb/apps/Pong -Joe On 2/20/06, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm trying to generate TOS packets and send them to

Re: [Tinyos-help] URGENT- Basic transfer of user defined HEX packets.

2006-02-25 Thread Joe Polastre
1) Go through the TinyOS tutorial in the doc/tutorial directory. 2) Check out the PingPong application in contrib/ucb/apps/Pong 3) Everyone on this list thinks their request is "urgent" -Joe On 2/25/06, Mike pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a student doing a final project for my Electrical

Re: [Tinyos-help] Multiple calls to radio

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Polastre
sendDone calls you, you don't call sendDone. call send(). ... wait ... get sendDone() then call send() on next message. see tos/lib/Queue for an example. -Joe On 3/1/06, Gina Upperman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Vinayak, > > > > Thanks for your email. We thought about using the SendDon

Re: [Tinyos-help] a few questions about high-level radio components of tinyOS

2006-03-02 Thread Joe Polastre
> - RadioCRCPacket (or even UARTNoCRCPacket) does any > control of error transfer (retrys) when sending > packets? I don't think so.. I imagine it only sends > packets and you must check for transmission errors > "manually", but I'm not sure. It does not retry transmissions. > - when using telos

Re: [Tinyos-help] reprogramming tmotes

2006-03-02 Thread Joe Polastre
Deluge works just fine on Tmote Sky. See the Deluge manual in tinyos-1.x/doc. TinyDB is severely outdated and no longer supported for any platform. -Joe On 3/2/06, jesus serna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Good afternoon, we are working in a motes project at the Valencia > University, bu

Re: [Tinyos-help] packet size for t-mote

2006-03-06 Thread Joe Polastre
This question was asked about 10 days ago and answered. Here's the email from the archives: http://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tinyos-help/2006-February/014839.html The default data payload is 28 bytes. -Joe On 3/6/06, L Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use t-mote sky wit

Re: [Tinyos-help] tmote reset sequence recognition chip power

2006-03-06 Thread Joe Polastre
It will be reverse powered if any of the inputs are >0V and Vcc is < input. Basically there's a reverse path from the inputs to Vcc, causing extremely high current leakage. Bad! If Vcc is applied, then the input values are ignored and leakage is prevented. -Joe On 3/3/06, Andrew Redfern <[EMAI

Re: [Tinyos-help] tmote hardware question

2006-03-06 Thread Joe Polastre
No, not the way the mote is configured. On 3/4/06, Andrew Redfern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok after reading up on the bsl it does use the serial for programming and > the added hardware is just there for putting it into that mode and as an on > board JTAG. > > Can UART0 be used for the bsl? >

Re: [Tinyos-help] Typical msg loss rates w/ Telos?

2006-03-07 Thread Joe Polastre
That radio stack is really out of date; I don't recommend it. -Joe On 3/7/06, Ian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies if this has been addressed previously: > > Currently I am running a simple application to measure the throughput of the > default Telos-A MAC. I have one mote send messa

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tiny-OS CC2420 radio stack problem

2006-03-08 Thread Joe Polastre
I would highly recommend downloading Moteiv's Boomerang distribution. There are a number of potential bugs in the main tree that are fixed in our distribution. We had seen the same issues in the radio and have corrected them in Boomerang. http://www.moteiv.com Depending on when you purchased yo

Re: [Tinyos-help] Any Applications using bmac

2006-03-13 Thread Joe Polastre
they're all using bmac. On 3/13/06, jagan nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Are there any sample applications available on the CVS using bmac > > > TIA > jagan > > ___ > Tinyos-help mailing list > Tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU > https

Re: [Tinyos-help] Help Post Facto Synchronization

2006-03-14 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi, Moteiv's Boomerang includes a power saving post-deployment synchronization protocol. You can download Boomerang from www.moteiv.com. -Joe Polastre On 3/14/06, labometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, I need help for Post facto Synchronization. > I depl

Re: [Tinyos-help] Problems with Surge!

2006-03-15 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi Colin, Surge is old, crufty, and doesn't work most of the time. I recommend downloading Moteiv's Boomerang distribution from www.moteiv.com which includes a new mesh application called Delta, and a visualization tool called Trawler. There is more information in Moteiv's Quick Start Guide fo

Re: [Tinyos-help] store and access data in flash?

2006-03-16 Thread Joe Polastre
const only works on msp430 platforms. -Joe On 3/16/06, Prabal Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The C keyword 'const' can be used to tell the compiler to put > something in program memory: > > const uint8_t foo[] = {1, 2, 3, 4}; > > BTW, if you just try to insert this line into nesc code, yo

Re: [Tinyos-help] Interested in a Moteiv Tmote Sky Developers kit?

2006-03-16 Thread Joe Polastre
This *IS* the kit from the logo contest winner at the TTX. As promotional items are not eligible for resale, I have contacted eBay to remove this listing. If you purchase this item, you will not be eligible for Moteiv's technical support. -Joe On 3/16/06, Andrew Redfern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [Tinyos-help] Boomerang!

2006-03-20 Thread Joe Polastre
Looks like your download didn't complete. Please download again. -Joe On 3/20/06, Colin Couper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm having trouble installing boomerang. When I run the installer Iget > the error that I have attached! > Can anyone help? > > Thanks in Advance > > Colin > > > __

Re: [Tinyos-help] Boomerang!

2006-03-20 Thread Joe Polastre
x27;t > worked on any of them!!! > > On 3/20/06, Joe Polastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like your download didn't complete. Please download again. > > > > -Joe > > > > On 3/20/06, Colin Couper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: [Tinyos-help] Interruptions; detecting USB connection and using the "user button"

2006-03-22 Thread Joe Polastre
There is already a component that does this in Moteiv Boomerang. See UartDetectC and UartPresenceC in /opt/moteiv/doc/nesdoc/ API documentation. -Joe On 3/22/06, Gelu Contiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I created a component that tests whether the tmote is > connected to USB or it is w

Re: [Tinyos-help] UART0 on the tmote (MonibusHPLUART)

2006-03-22 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi Andrew, Using Moteiv Boomerang, accessing the shared UART is very simple and safe. I've created a sample application that uses the shared UART to send a byte. It illustrates the use of the Resource arbitration system and sending a byte. See the included nesdoc/ documentation for more infor

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tmote Sky serial interface

2006-03-23 Thread Joe Polastre
You need to write a driver for your device. I'm pretty sure that your device doesn't understand TinyOS formatted packets that GenericComm sends. There's an article on Moteiv's support site about using UART0 with Boomerang: http://www.moteiv.com/community/Boomerang_UART0_Sample -Joe On 3/23/06,

Re: [Tinyos-help] tinyos-2.x how is the CC2420Config interface exposed to higher layers in tinyOS-2.x

2006-03-26 Thread Joe Polastre
call CC2420Control.setRFPower( val ); in CC2420RadioC. -Joe On 3/25/06, Dattatraya Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I am trying to do the same using tinyos-1.x. Which components would I > need to wire? I need to only be able to read the power set and the set the > power. > I tried wiring u

Re: [Tinyos-help] Problems running the Listen and SerialForwarder tools with Telos B

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Polastre
use: export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:telos -Joe On 3/27/06, Venkat Manoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am using Telos B mote to run the Oscilloscope application as described in > the Lesson 6 of the tutorial on TinyOS. > > When I run the Listen program in ../tools/java I get the following

Re: [Tinyos-help] bsl and memory size (ram/rom)

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Polastre
2kB is used by TOSBoot, the bootloader. You have 48-2=46k available to your application. Memory can only be segmented in pages of 512 bytes, so you don't get 48k-1796. The BSL is located in a special part of flash that is not part of the main 48k. -Joe On 3/28/06, Martin Gercke <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Tinyos-help] comunicating with deluge after rebooting with another image then DelugeBasic

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Polastre
Have you included Deluge into Blink? If not, then Deluge isn't actually running. -Joe On 3/28/06, Gelu Contiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't ping a mote having Deluge installed on it, if > another application than DelugeBasic is running (Eg. > Blink). So after the reboot operation

Re: [Tinyos-help] comunicating with deluge after rebooting withanother image then DelugeBasic

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Polastre
; - Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Polastre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gelu Contiu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] comunicating with deluge after rebooting > withanother image t

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: tinyos-2.x for tmote sky

2006-03-31 Thread Joe Polastre
> Network types are your friend. :) Except for the fact that they add over 2k of program space to my applications. Sigh. Any chance network types are going to become somewhat more efficient in the future? -Joe ___ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: tinyos-2.x for tmote sky

2006-03-31 Thread Joe Polastre
ething like: my_format_t x; x.blah = 1; x.foo = 2; message_t msg; msg.data = (nx_my_format_t)x; Who knows, but the overhead almost makes network types unusable in most msp430 applications. -Joe On 3/31/06, Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:41 P

Re: [Tinyos-help] TimeSync on Telos/Tmote

2006-04-05 Thread Joe Polastre
I know this doesn't exactly answer your question, but Boomerang (from www.moteiv.com) includes time synchronization and is loosely based on VU's original implementation. There's a network synchronization module called NetSyncC which utilizes time synch to create a low power network. -Joe On 4/5/

Re: [Tinyos-help] compilation error in motes

2006-04-09 Thread Joe Polastre
make telosb install -Joe On 4/8/06, Kanishk Panwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I am using telos rev B motes and tried compiling > Oscilloscpoe application on the motes but it got a > timeout error. I am not sure what is wrong with it. > Please sugggest. > screen shot of the error > >

Re: [Tinyos-help] Different OS

2006-04-10 Thread Joe Polastre
SOS, Mantis, Contiki... google is your friend. -Joe On 4/10/06, Hoell, Christian (EXT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > for my master thesis I need to compare different types of OS for sensor > networks. > Can anybody tell me some other OS working with Tmote or MicaZ than > TinyOS. > > Thanks

Re: [Tinyos-help] processor on/off on tmote

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Polastre
It automatically turns off when no tasks are in the queue and only timers are outstanding. -Joe On 4/11/06, adina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I turn the processor off, or put it in low-power mode for the > tmote? My purpose is to turn it on and off, depending on a timer. I u

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tmote MAC ACK

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Polastre
In Boomerang by Moteiv (at www.moteiv.com), acks are enabled on a per-packet basis. See the reliability bit in the SP documentation of Boomerang. -Joe On 4/11/06, Nirav Barodia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > The MAC Layer ACK for messages seem to be enabled by default. However even > after m

Re: [Tinyos-help] routing with SurgeTelos

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Polastre
Surge is old, crufty, and simply out of date. I recommend downloading Boomerang at www.moteiv.com which includes a new, nice multihop application called Delta and a visualization application called Trawler. You can read more about it how to use it in our Tmote Sky Quickstart. -Joe On 4/11/06, j

[Tinyos-help] Re: [Tinyos-devel] telosb/tmote interrupts

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Polastre
(moved to tinyos-help) Only pins connected to port 1 or port 2 on the msp430 are capable of being interrupts. -Joe On 4/11/06, Dan Steingart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While many of the pins on the 6 pin header (1,2,3,4,5,9) and on the > 10 pin header (2,3,4,5) can be set to be inputs or outpu

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tmote Sky: disable CC2420 reception

2006-04-12 Thread Joe Polastre
Your question is really a band-aid to broken code in the 1.x tree. I'd recommend trying Boomerang, as it does not suffer from these bugs. -Joe On 4/12/06, Matthew J Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have run into an issue where, when I am trying to force higher data rates

Re: [Tinyos-help] CC2420 initialization comment

2006-04-16 Thread Joe Polastre
Old message, but here's the response. The values you are seeing are the new values as of the newest datasheets. Earlier versions of the datasheet specified different recommended values. The radio stacks in both Boomerang and TinyOS 2.x have been updated to reflect the new datasheets, but the 1.x

Re: [Tinyos-help] Problems with sendding a packet within a receive event

2006-04-16 Thread Joe Polastre
Once you return 'msg' in the Receive event handler, that pointer can not be used in any other function. Because you passed it into SendMsg.send(), the results are unpredictable because the receive path of the radio still owns the pointer. You need to return a different message pointer at the end

Re: [Tinyos-help] Problems with sendding a packet within a receive event

2006-04-16 Thread Joe Polastre
l in tinyos-1.x, is it that the send function was blocking in > that release and is non blocking in the newer release? > > When I create a separate buffer as TOS_Msg buffer and assign buffer = *msg, > and pass this &buffer to the send fuction, it works fine. > > > >

Re: [Tinyos-help] ack field

2006-04-19 Thread Joe Polastre
You have to enable acks using MacControl.enableAck() On 4/19/06, Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if the ack field of AM messages runs ? I tried to use > it, as in the following example, but I have no ack of the message > status. The strength or lqi fields, for example, are co

[Tinyos-help] Re: ack

2006-04-19 Thread Joe Polastre
You must do it during start() not init() On 4/19/06, Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank you for your advice, but the problem still remain > >event result_t SendCmdStartRSSImeasuremensts.sendDone( TOS_MsgPtr > sent, result_t success ) { > if( sent->ack == 1 ) { > call Led

Re: [Tinyos-help] Sending data to UART0 in tmote

2006-04-23 Thread Joe Polastre
This has been asked plenty of times. Please download Boomerang from Moteiv and follow these instructions: http://www.moteiv.com/community/Boomerang_UART0_Sample -Joe On 4/23/06, Hemanth Haridas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to send data to UART0(expansion pin) but it gets sent to > U

[Tinyos-help] Re: Tmote: how to config mote with unique config info without reflashing?

2006-04-23 Thread Joe Polastre
Why not use the MAC address? It is *not* assigned during compile time, please re-read the process again. https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tinyos-help/2005-April/008913.html -Joe On 4/23/06, Liu, Ping (GE, Research) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joe and all, > > I have been tryin

Re: [Tinyos-help] Expansion Connector Tmote

2006-04-25 Thread Joe Polastre
TOSH_MAKE_GIO2_OUTPUT(); TOSH_SET_GIO2_PIN(); -Joe On 4/25/06, Terence Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I wish to send a binary value to one of the pins on the expansion connector > of the Tmote Sky. The pin that looks easiest to do this on is pin 3 of the > 6 pin connector. With

Re: [Tinyos-help] 2.4GHz Interference

2006-04-25 Thread Joe Polastre
> Why would a cheap cordless phone be smart enough to avoid the mote > channel, but the mote is not smart enough to avoid the cordless phone? :) The cordless phone doesn't "avoid" the mote at all, it stomps all over it in a fight akin to Bigfoot stomping on an ant hill. -Joe ___

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tmote USB-Problems

2006-04-26 Thread Joe Polastre
It is clear there is something on the Mica CD that is blocking the available COM ports. Please only use the CD supplied from Moteiv. -Joe On 4/26/06, Hoell, Christian (EXT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to connect a Tmote via terminal. > The problem is that on one PC it works q

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Tmote USB-Problems

2006-04-26 Thread Joe Polastre
stallation. > > Isn't there another way to do a little workarroud? > > Greetings > > Christian > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Joe Polastre > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 17:47 > An:

Re: [Tinyos-help] Delta and Trawler does not work with tmote?

2006-04-26 Thread Joe Polastre
Did you install from scratch? Can you provide any additional information? Are you getting packets out of any of the motes? Did you run Trawler? If so, on which COM port? What was the resulting error messages and/or displays? Please provide detailed information, otherwise it is very difficult

Re: [Tinyos-help] Delta and Trawler does not work with tmote?

2006-04-26 Thread Joe Polastre
Try removing the .trawler/ directory in your home directory and delete the .trawler.net file as well. Of course, do this when you are NOT running Trawler. -Joe On 4/26/06, WenZhan Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moteiv Trawler is really error-pruning - already reboot Windows > without any mess

Re: [Tinyos-help] Suggest to write a TinyOS programming book

2006-04-27 Thread Joe Polastre
http://cents.cs.berkeley.edu/tinywiki/index.php/TinyOS_Documentation_Wiki Already exists. -Joe On 4/27/06, Conor Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A suggestion and a question regarding David's post: > > Suggestion: How about a community-maintained wiki on tinyos.net? Then, > as each of us acqui

Re: [Tinyos-help] Errors in SurgeTelos

2006-05-01 Thread Joe Polastre
For Tmote Sky, please use Delta in our Boomerang distribution. The problem is that you've installed Boomerang, and Boomerang has different parameters to CC2420Control in order to avoid resource conflicts. You can see the interface documentation in /opt/moteiv/doc/nesdoc/ for CC2420Control. You

Re: [Tinyos-help] Errors in SurgeTelos

2006-05-01 Thread Joe Polastre
Also, there is a document that describes the problem you are running into on the Moteiv support page: http://www.moteiv.com/community/Change_radio_transmit_power_and_frequency -Joe On 5/1/06, bhushan bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to compile SurgeTelos but it gives m

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Telos I2C and Radio

2006-05-01 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi Ted, There are a number of examples with I2C and radio working together in Boomerang. Almost all of the Tmote Invent drivers (see moteiv/tos/sensorboards/invent) use I2C and are multiplexed with radio operations using the TinyOS 2.x Resource proposal. This question has been asked so many t

Re: [Tinyos-help] netbsl?

2006-05-03 Thread Joe Polastre
netbsl works with the Tmote Connect which runs a special server that allows you to remotely invoke bsl. I'm sure there's a way to run it with two PCs since netbsl is simply running netcat to a standard msp430-bsl command, but I'm not the expert on that :) -Joe On 5/3/06, Andrew Redfern <[EMAIL

Re: [Tinyos-help] Delta with TOSSIM?

2006-05-03 Thread Joe Polastre
1) it doesn't work with TOSSIM 2) we use other simulators and we stress test applications on our internal mote testbed. -Joe On 5/3/06, WenZhan Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Two questions regarding Delta: (1) How to make it work with TOSSIM? when I "make pc", it complains "can not find Mult

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Telos I2C and Radio

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Polastre
Trouble is, still, when I connect I2C to the Telos, no radio messages are received. We measured some voltage on a pin (connected to our I2C level converter, aka Philips Level Translating I2C Bus Repeater) that the radio presumably shares - is this the problem? Should we use a diode to block volt

Re: [Tinyos-help] Delta with TOSSIM?

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Polastre
I have the same question as Vinayak - hope it is not a secret. We really need a good simulator to test algorithms. Thanks. Sorry, we use internal, in house simulators. In addition, I have some other questions here: (1) Is Delta working in the following ways? the node attached with computer wil

Re: [Tinyos-help] Using I2C module on TmoteSky/TelosB

2006-05-05 Thread Joe Polastre
Boomerang already has AD524X drivers in moteiv/tos/sensorboards/invent. You'll need to change some of the settings for your own hardware by specifying your own sensorboard.h, but otherwise everything should work. -Joe On 5/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to use th

Re: [Tinyos-help] trawler problem

2006-05-07 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi Andrew, Try this new java file. you'll need to recompile com.moteiv.trawler. Also, remove your .trawler/ directory in your home directory or whereever you are running trawler from. -Joe On 5/7/06, Andrew Redfern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I installed Boomerang on two computers and tra

Re: [Tinyos-help] tmote uninstalling Delug

2006-05-09 Thread Joe Polastre
I think you are referring to TOSBoot, not Deluge, correct? TOSBoot only uses the LEDs for less than a second... hardly a big power drain. If you don't want it, set TINYOS_NP= as per the Deluge directions. -Joe On 5/9/06, Andrew Redfern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I uninstall Deluge from

Re: [Tinyos-help] MSP430 DMA: Multiplier Ready Trigger

2006-05-09 Thread Joe Polastre
Have you read this document? http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slaa228/slaa228.pdf -Joe On 5/9/06, Matthew J Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone successfully triggered DMA transfers using the Hardware Multiplier Ready trigger? According to the MSP Family Guide, this trigger is supposed to

[Tinyos-help] Re: LQI and probability of packet loss

2006-05-09 Thread Joe Polastre
all of the variables were measured at the same time--lqi and rssi. it does not take a mental leap to understand the findings in an open air environment. prabal, I would be extremely enthusiastic to review your real world data on this topic. please send your studies to the list as I believe we al

[Tinyos-help] Re: LQI and probability of packet loss

2006-05-09 Thread Joe Polastre
e, RSSI vs Distance, and LQI vs Distance data in the paper. It's not impossible but its not immediately obvious to the casual observer. As I wrote in my earlier e-mail, we're not yet ready to release our findings, but we will in due time. - Prabal On 5/9/06, Joe Polastre <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Tinyos-help] Delta/Trawler lowpower power consumption on tmote sky

2006-05-10 Thread Joe Polastre
Battery voltage is not a particularly good indicator of power consumption because it is affected by temperature and ambient environment. Having said that, there are two known bugs in lowpower in Boomerang 2.0.2. A forthcoming 2.0.3 release will be available very soon. -Joe On 5/10/06, Roberto

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: LQI and probability of packet loss

2006-05-10 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi Phil, Thanks for the link to the paper. I look forward to seeing the talk at Emnets! -Joe On 5/10/06, Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Joe Polastre wrote: > What is preventing the release of your data? Levis and his student > have a p

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Tinyos-help Digest, Vol 37, Issue 48

2006-05-11 Thread Joe Polastre
? Roberto, Have you turned off the radio? Regards, Harish > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:56:14 -0700 > From: "Joe Polastre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Delta/Trawler lowpower power consumption on > tmote sky > To: "Roberto Garc

Re: [Tinyos-help] Regular values for TelosB motes sensors?

2006-05-12 Thread Joe Polastre
Are you using TelosB or Tmote Sky? The Moteiv Oscilloscope application in Boomerang has detailed information about how to decypher the Oscilloscope readings in README.TmoteSky in /opt/moteiv/apps/Oscilloscope -Joe On 5/12/06, Bart Braem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could someone post normal valu

Re: [Tinyos-help] Problems with telos under tinyos 1.1.15

2006-05-16 Thread Joe Polastre
Your msp430 tools are out of date and, as the error message indicated, do not support the msp430x1611 microcontroller. -Joe On 5/16/06, Chiu C. Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am trying to upgrade from tinyos version 1.1.0 to version 1.1.15. I am using Windows XP. I have done the following

Re: [Tinyos-help] make problem with latest moteiv distribution on Win2K but not on XP

2006-05-17 Thread Joe Polastre
Hi, Please see Moteiv's support page for Boomerang: http://www.moteiv.com/community/Moteiv_Boomerang_Fixes Specifically the section on " Compile fails in Windows 2000 Professional " Thank you, -Joe On 5/17/06, Liu, Ping (GE, Research) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, We recently got

Re: [Tinyos-help] Power Consumption in Tmote

2006-05-17 Thread Joe Polastre
Please see the CC2420 datasheet and the Tmote Sky datasheet. Both indicate that, yes, power consumption is lower during transmission. -Joe On 5/17/06, Mark Darragh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I was just wondering if the tmote moves from sleep mode to calling GenericComm.start() quite a

Re: [Tinyos-help] Radio On/Off

2006-05-18 Thread Joe Polastre
You should download Boomerang and use SP as your mechanism for turning the radio on and off. -Joe On 5/18/06, Diego Bartolomé Arquillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get the power consumption on tmote sky with a digital oscilloscope. Turning the radio on (calling "GenericCo

Re: Fwd: [Tinyos-help] Maximum samplingrate with TimerJiffy.nc

2006-05-18 Thread Joe Polastre
Why aren't you using the DMA to do high frequency sampling? See tos/sensorboards/invent/MicDriver* -Joe On 5/18/06, jagan nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I 'm still not sure whether my task queue is overflowing, I have done the following modification in Sched.C else { __nesc_atomic_end(fI

Re: [Tinyos-help] Current consumption of a tmote sky

2006-05-18 Thread Joe Polastre
The flash current consumption is <1uA in power down mode. You can lift the Vcc pin to the flash and measure it yourself :) -Joe On 5/18/06, Roman Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I've just done a few current measurements and compared them to the datasheet from moteiv (http://www.moteiv.c

Re: [Tinyos-help] Confusion on uncombined call and SPC component/interface

2006-05-22 Thread Joe Polastre
(1) if you are using the "old" interfaces (ie, SendMsg and ReceiveMsg), then you should wired to GenericComm, not SPC. Unfortunately the nesC wiring checks aren't completely functional. (2) SPSend and SPReceive are preferred. They provide the full SP functionality (message futures, reliability,

[Tinyos-help] Re: Confusion on uncombined call and SPC component/interface

2006-05-22 Thread Joe Polastre
correct. they are not actually verified during compilation. -Joe On 5/22/06, Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:17 -0700, Joe Polastre wrote: > Unfortunately the nesC wiring checks aren't completely functional. How are they not functional? D

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Confusion on uncombined call and SPCcomponent/interface - still comiple warnings

2006-05-22 Thread Joe Polastre
Re: Confusion on uncombined call and SPCcomponent/interface On 5/22/06, Joe Polastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correct. they are not actually verified during compilation. They are verified by an external tool, invoked automatically during the build process. This is intentional, and will not

Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Confusion on uncombined call and SPCcomponent/interface - still comiple warnings

2006-05-22 Thread Joe Polastre
y SendMsg = SPC.SendMsg; ReceiveMsg = SPC.ReceiveMsg; } -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Polastre Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:47 PM To: Adam Cc: tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Re: Confusion on uncombin

Re: [Tinyos-help] TelosB callibration?

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Polastre
What are you calibrating? The clock? The ADC? The DAC? And Moteiv supports Tmote Sky, btw :) -Joe On 5/23/06, Bart Braem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have information on how to calibrate TelosB motes? (Crossbow refers me to the community, so that's here I guess.) ___

Re: [Tinyos-help] parse error on "struct @" even with nesc 1.2.4

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Polastre
Sometimes you have a lingering old version of nesC floating around. What happens when you type 'ncc -v'? The problem is absolutely that it is using an old version of nesC. -Joe On 5/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my tinyos to have the Tmote Inven

[Tinyos-help] Re: parse error on "struct @" even with nesc 1.2.4

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Polastre
ing specs from C:\PROGRA~1\UCB\cygwin\usr\local\lib\ncc\tdspecs Configured with: ./configure --target=avr --disable-nls Thread model: single gcc version 3.3-tinyos John Quoting Joe Polastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sometimes you have a lingering old version of nesC floating around. > Wha

Re: [Tinyos-help] TelosB callibration?

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Polastre
It only requires a single point calibration. See the msp430 app notes. -Joe On 5/23/06, Bart Braem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The temperature sensor. Thanks for your reply! Bart On 5/23/06, Joe Polastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you calibrating? The clock? Th

Re: [Tinyos-help] Boomerang doubt

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Polastre
in Boomerang, the one in tos/lib/CC2420Radio is used. -Joe On 5/23/06, jagan nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if I install an application with 'make tmote' which AM.h will be usedm the one in tos/platform/telos or tos/types/ both seem to be different, one supports tinysec and the othjer doesnt

Re: [Tinyos-help] Can we reduce transmit bit rate in tmotes

2006-05-24 Thread Joe Polastre
No. On 5/24/06, jagan nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, is there a way to reduce the transmit bit rate in tmotes. -jagan ___ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

Re: [Tinyos-help] tmote batteries lifetime

2006-05-25 Thread Joe Polastre
Your iPod nano has a $20 Li-Poly battery and your mote has a $0.20 AA battery. You're expecting identical performance -Joe On 5/25/06, Chang Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I bought 8 AA batteries in the 1 dollar store. It only run 20 hours then the leds were dim. The voltage of the battery

Re: [Tinyos-help] SurgeTelos for TMote Sky Sensors

2006-05-26 Thread Joe Polastre
You need to increase the size of the data payload by setting TOSH_DATA_LENGTH. -Joe On 5/26/06, Luis Enrique Palafox Maestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've been modifying SurgeTelos to work with TMote Sky and its sensor suite. What I've been trying to do is to include the readings of

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