Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer SD write speed

2013-01-02 Thread mike healy
Avishay, As other people have already mentioned the simplest, and probably most dramatic (in terms of speedup), way to improve the performance of the SD card on the shimmer is to play with the clock settings. By default in TinyOS the MSP430 on the shimmer runs at 4MHz (generated by the internal

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer SD write speed

2013-01-02 Thread mike healy
write small chunks but still keep writing rate of ~30kB/s, I'd be happy... Any ideas? P.S I'm using a SanDisk SD card... On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM, mike healy mikeghe...@gmail.com wrote: Avishay, As other people have already mentioned the simplest, and probably most dramatic (in terms

Re: [Tinyos-help] [Need help] Shimmer sensor: weird Bluetooth behavior or I am guilty

2012-11-28 Thread mike healy
Hi, As a sanity check I've just tested the Bluetooth test app that you point to, built with the latest TinyOS main tree from googlecode, and connecting to it using minicom, and it works as expected for me. When you say you test the same shimmer with the BoilerPlate app and ShimmerConnect, are

Re: [Tinyos-help] [Need help] Shimmer sensor: weird Bluetooth behavior or I am guilty

2012-11-28 Thread mike healy
Hi, From your last mail I get the impression that you used the Shimmer Windows Bootstrap Loader Windows based application to load the BoilerPlate image on your shimmer. Have you tried building and installing BoilerPlate from source to see if that works (to test your build environment). From the

Re: [Tinyos-help] [Need help] Shimmer sensor: weird Bluetooth behavior or I am guilty

2012-11-28 Thread mike healy
the tinyprod repository to manage my msp430-gcc install, but there are other ways of doing so depending on your preferences (http://tinyprod.net/repos/debian/) Mike On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Dang Thi Hai Ha hris2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:36 AM, mike healy mikeghe

Re: [Tinyos-help] Sending a bluetooth message+shimmer

2012-10-30 Thread mike healy
Hi, You can safely ignore those warnings. Or if you prefer they are easy to get rid of, but doing so will result in a (slight) performance hit. To read the data transmitted from that application simply connect to the shimmer's bluetooth serial port using a serial terminal emulator (such as

Re: [Tinyos-help] (SER0_RTS) power-enable or control for external expansion

2012-06-19 Thread mike healy
Try building BoilerPlate for shimmer2. This can enable/disable the 5V regulator on the AnEx board. I've just built this for shimmer2 using the latest tinyos-main from googlecode SVN without any problem. Mike On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Razee Hussein-Jamal razee...@gmail.comwrote: Hi,

Re: [Tinyos-help] External adc and accelerometer on shimmer

2012-06-07 Thread mike healy
Not sure what could be going wrong, but this is something I do all the time. BoilerPlate ( http://tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tinyos/tinyos-2.x-contrib/shimmer/apps/BoilerPlate/) is easily configured to do this, but this may be an overly complicated example for your needs. Take a look at

Re: [Tinyos-help] programming problem with simpleAccel in tiny-2.x-contrib

2012-05-14 Thread mike healy
Hi, You appear to be using the tinyos-2.x tree from Sourceforge CVS. This is old and out of date. Instead you should be using the tinyos-main tree from googlecode svn: http://code.google.com/p/tinyos-main/source/checkout Mike On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Yuefan Chen fancy.che...@gmail.com

Re: [Tinyos-help] Sending a bluetooth message+shimmer

2012-04-23 Thread mike healy
Hi, You might want to ensure you are using the latest version of these apps from the Sourceforge repository, and that you are building against the latest tinyos-main tree from Googlecode SVN. Some of those errors you are getting seem to indicate that you are using an old version of the main

Re: [Tinyos-help] Is CVS Repo up ?

2011-07-20 Thread mike healy
To answer your question about the CVS being up: No it is not. See the following for info: http://sourceforge.net/blog/update-on-cvs-outage/ and http://sourceforge.net/blog/further-update-on-cvs-outage/ On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:13 AM, G G g...@ymail.com wrote: I need to access contrib The

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer2R - Sending packets from PC to motes through span - C

2011-06-23 Thread mike healy
Are you using the tinyos C sdk: http://code.google.com/p/tinyos-main/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fsupport%2Fsdk%2Fc%2Fsf I've been using this for years (reading from a Span running BaseStation) and never had a problem with it Mike On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Erwan RENAUDO

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer2R - Sending packets from PC to motes through span - C

2011-06-23 Thread mike healy
answer, Mike. Erwan 2011/6/23 mike healy mikeghe...@gmail.com Are you using the tinyos C sdk: http://code.google.com/p/tinyos-main/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fsupport%2Fsdk%2Fc%2Fsf I've been using this for years (reading from a Span running BaseStation) and never had a problem

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer2r - ANEX Problem

2011-06-08 Thread mike healy
Hi, My only idea is that you might not be correctly enabling the 5V regulator on the AnEx boards (as it's on/off state can be controlled by the MSP430). The SER0_RTS pin controls the 5V reg. So in Boot.booted() (or somewhere else appropriate) you need to set this pin to it's I/O mode, and set

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer JustFATLogging

2011-06-08 Thread mike healy
Hi, There are a number of ways of reading these files. But as they contain binary data (as opposed to ASCII text) the applications you tried will not display the data in a readable format. Firstly there is a simple python script in Shimmer's contrib folder that will read the data:

Re: [Tinyos-help] Fwd: Bluetooth communication from Node to mobile

2011-04-29 Thread mike healy
Another problem I can imagine is that the Bluetooth.setServiceName() command in TinyOS has no effect. I quickly went through the sources and it seems to me that the the new name is never sent in a SS command to the chip. Hi Romain, I don't know where you get the impression that

Re: [Tinyos-help] Tinyos-help -- could not open port

2011-04-20 Thread mike healy
Hi, Your problem is with the space between the comma after bsl and the port number. There should be no space there, i.e. make shimmer2r reinstall bsl,/dev/ttyUSB0 In the output look for the line that starts with tos-bsl and it should resemble the following, as opposed to what you have shown

Re: [Tinyos-help] /home/tiny1/tinyos-1.x/contrib/handhelds/apps/BioMOBIUS/Reconfigurable does not compile

2011-04-18 Thread mike healy
Hi Mike, That Reconfigurable code is old and unsupported, and there are much much better examples in shimmer's tos2 contrib folder. But that said, the problem with compiling the code is down to changes made to the shimmer platforms in tinyos-1.x a long time ago. The shimmer and shimmer2 have the

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer - getting info from sensor.

2011-03-31 Thread mike healy
and plotting separately payload byte by two. Does anybody know what DMA transfer exactly return (in terms of data) or where I can find these informations (Didn't get it reading MMA7361 datasheet) ? Once again, many thanks for help, I can join plotting results I necessary. Erwan. 2011/3/28 mike

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer - getting info from sensor.

2011-03-28 Thread mike healy
for Windows ? Thanks for your answers and support, Best regards, Erwan 2011/3/21 mike healy mikeghe...@gmail.com Hi Erwan, Take a look at the examples in the tinyos-2.x-contrib/shimmer/apps folder for examples on how to sample the shimmer sensors: http://tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc

Re: [Tinyos-help] Shimmer - getting info from sensor.

2011-03-21 Thread mike healy
Hi Erwan, Take a look at the examples in the tinyos-2.x-contrib/shimmer/apps folder for examples on how to sample the shimmer sensors: http://tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tinyos/tinyos-2.x-contrib/shimmer/apps/ SimpleAccel being, as the name suggests, one of the simpler examples. Mike On

Re: [Tinyos-help] Endless resynchronising with shimmer 2r

2011-03-14 Thread mike healy
Hi Erwan, There are two serial ports on the shimmer dock, one for programming the shimmer, and the other for communicating with it: http://www.shimmer-research.com/links/faqs#H12 You need to use the second one. I.e. in your case you probably need to run: net.tinyos.tools.Listen -comm

Re: [Tinyos-help] WSN ?

2011-01-05 Thread mike healy
If you are talking about zattach in tinyos-1.x/contrib/handhelds/apps/AccessPoint/daemon, then the answer is yes, you can run it on a wireless router running OpenWRT. You just must make sure you compile it for the processor on the router, and you need to do the same for the corresponding kernel

Re: [Tinyos-help] help: adding a pin to start/stop logging

2010-10-19 Thread mike healy
Hi Lina, You will need to capture the interrupt coming from the button push and act on it accordingly. You will also probably want to debounce the button as you're at it. As an example take a look at TestUserButton in tinyos-2.x-contrib/shimmer/swtest/UserButton This app includes debouncing and

Re: [Tinyos-help] CC2420 hardware encryption for upper layer operations

2007-08-14 Thread mike healy
Andrew, This is something I have never tried to do with the CC2420 so take anything I say with a grain of salt... One reason the packets could be decrypted incorrectly when the volume increases is that the counter/nonce used at the sender and receiver becomes out of sync, using this mode you're

Re: [Tinyos-help] debugging using UART for Tmote without JTAG

2007-04-12 Thread mike healy
Chris, VDB could be what you are looking for: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lg6e/tool/debug.htmlhttp://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Elg6e/tool/debug.html Mike On 4/11/07, Chris Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was looking for debugging without JTAG. I know we can use the USB port and probably

Re: Re to Re: [Tinyos-help] telosb and mica2

2007-04-04 Thread mike healy
Maala, The mica2 and the telosb are not compatible because their radios work at different frequencies. The telosb radio (CC2420) works in the 2.4 GHz band and the mica2 (with the CC1000 radio) works at either 433, 868 or 916 MHz depending on the type you have. The telosb motes are however

Re: [Tinyos-help] new to TOSSIM

2006-08-23 Thread mike healy
Tossim does not run in realtime by default, it runs as fast as it is able.To see the results in realtime use the -l switch i.e.: ./main.exe -l=1 1On 8/23/06, Zhao Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all,I am new to TOS. I perfromed TOSSIM for Blink. In particular, I setexport DBG=led for

Re: [Tinyos-help] TinyOs Help - TOSSIM

2006-06-06 Thread mike healy
Hi Marcus, This question seems to come up fairly often so I'll take a stab at giving an answer. I see from the attached files that you're running TOSSIM under Windows. This is the problem. My understanding is that if you are running TOSSIM under Windows TinyViz will not work (at least not for