Re: [Tinyos-help] energy consumption / sleep modes on Iris platform (solved)

2008-09-30 Thread Bernd-Christian Renner
> it. In particular you need to include the ActiveMessageC component > even if you do not use the radio! Otherwise noone will put the radio > into sleep mode :( Works now (current below 1mA). ___ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.e

Re: [Tinyos-help] energy consumption / sleep modes on Iris platform

2008-09-29 Thread Miklos Maroti
Hi Christian, > Just in case initRadio (in RF230PacketP.nc) is not called. What do I have to > do then? When are the init() commands of the above mentioned interfaces > called? Is that done automatically? Should be called automatically, but some wiring error could prevent it. In particular you ne

Re: [Tinyos-help] energy consumption / sleep modes on Iris platform

2008-09-29 Thread Bernd-Christian Renner
Hi, thanks for the fast reply. > Try adding some LED command to the RF230PacketP.nc file (you need to > change the wiring to do that), and verify that the initRadio() is Ok, I've done that. Unfortunately, I can't check that until tomorrow, as no hardware is currently available. :( > called o

Re: [Tinyos-help] energy consumption / sleep modes on Iris platform

2008-09-29 Thread Miklos Maroti
Hi, Try adding some LED command to the RF230PacketP.nc file (you need to change the wiring to do that), and verify that the initRadio() is called on your setup. The RF230 chip draws a lot of power and it need to be put into sleep mode at startup. This is done through the PlatformInit and SoftwareI

[Tinyos-help] energy consumption / sleep modes on Iris platform

2008-09-29 Thread Bernd-Christian Renner
Hi, we're experiencing some trouble with our Iris nodes and the current TinyOS from CVS. After having stopped the radio, nodes are still drawing 3mA current, which is quite heavy. We double checked that no printf is used (and neither is printf.h included) to make sure the serial device is off.