Hi Steve,
thank you very much for your help and for your explanation.
I updated my tinyos and now it seems to be working.
Kind regards,
Andrea.


2011/5/18 steve ayer <[email protected]>

> hi andrea,
>
> sorry it took awhile to get back to you (travel/meetings), but i sat down
> to look at this and realized that you uncovered what could be considered a
> bug; at the very least an oversight on my part.
>
> the msp430 usart uses a register that is shared among bus modes to indicate
> that rx or tx event completion.  the gps driver uses this bus as a uart, and
> has events that fire when either the tx or rx interrupt flags is set, even
> though this event is triggered by spi activities to/from the sd card.
>
> anyway, i added a fix to the driver that will prevent interference with the
> sd driver from the gps driver, and it is now checked into the tinyos-main
> repository.
>
> all, please pick up this fix:
>
> cd ~/tinyos-main/tos/platforms/shimmer2/chips/fgpmmopa6b
>
> svn update
>
> thanks for your patience, and apologies for the confusion.
>
> -steve
>
>
> On 05/16/2011 12:45 PM, Andrea Grante wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>> actually my JustFATLogging app breaks with just these two lines in
>> JustFATLoggingC:
>>
>> components GpsC as GpsMod;
>> JustFATLoggingP.Gps           -> GpsMod.Gps;
>>
>> and of course adding
>>
>> interface Gps;
>>
>> and
>>
>> async event void Gps.NMEADataAvailable(char * data) {}
>>
>> in the JustFATLoggingP.
>>
>>
>> I'm not even wiring the GpsInit interface, nor I ever call its init, so
>> my app doesn't ever access to the GPS.
>> Can your application, with only such changes, write on the SD card on
>> your shimmer2r ?
>>
>> Thanks again, kind regards,
>> Andrea.
>>
>> 2011/5/16 steve ayer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>
>>    hi andrea,
>>
>>    just adding the hooks for the gps module won't break the app, but
>>    before you call its init, you must disable the sd stuff, and
>> vice-versa.
>>
>>    -steve
>>
>>
>>    On 05/16/2011 06:06 AM, Andrea Grante wrote:
>>
>>        Hello Steve,
>>        thank you for your help.
>>        I already tried to call the init() on the GPS, then getting the
>>        data,
>>        disabling it by calling either disable() or disableBus(),
>>        without success.
>>        Anyway, if you just add in JustFATLoggingC
>>
>>        {
>>        ...
>>
>>           components GpsC as GpsMod;
>>           JustFATLoggingP.GpsInit       -> GpsMod.Init;
>>           JustFATLoggingP.Gps           -> GpsMod.Gps;
>>
>>        ...
>>        }
>>
>>
>>        and in JustFATLoggingP
>>
>>        {
>>        ...
>>             interface Gps;
>>             interface Init as GpsInit;
>>        ...
>>             async event void Gps.NMEADataAvailable(char * data) {}
>>        ...
>>        }
>>
>>        the app stops working. It's enough to add those lines, without
>>        enabling/initializing the GPS module.
>>        When the shimmer2r is undocked, the three leds turn on, and when
>>        docked
>>        back, the control of the mote is lost and nothing is written on
>>        the SD card.
>>        Is there something wrong in my code?
>>        Thank you again, regards,
>>        Andrea.
>>
>>        2011/5/12 steve ayer <[email protected]
>>        <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>>        <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>>
>>
>>            hi andrea,
>>
>>            the sd card and the gps daughter card use the same usart bus
>>        on the
>>            shimmer, so to use the two together, you'll have to cache
>>        gps data
>>            while the sd card is disabled, then stop receiving data from
>>        the gps
>>            (though i would not disable it), bring up the sd card, write
>>        your
>>            data, then switch back.  bus multiplexing...
>>
>>            i hope that this helps,
>>
>>            steve
>>
>>
>>            On 05/12/2011 09:15 AM, Andrea Grante wrote:
>>
>>                Hello,
>>                I'm a master student and I'm trying to write an application
>>                which stores
>>                data from the GPS expansion on the SD card.
>>                Although I use applications which store data on the SD card
>>                succesfully
>>                (like JustFATLogging, for instance), I'm having problems
>>        using
>>                the GPS
>>                module in the same apps.
>>                Even if I just list the GPS component in the
>>        configuration file (not
>>                even calling its init() ), SD card storage stops working.
>>                How could I make the GPS and SD modules work together?
>>                Thank you so much for your help, regards,
>>                Andrea Grante.
>>
>>
>>
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