[Tinyos-devel] TelosB as base station?

[Matt Welsh]

Hi folks,

We have been having continued problems with using a TelosB mote as a
base station and I'm wondering if there's something we're doing wrong.
Basically, using BaseStationCC2420 on a TelosB along with the C-based
serialforwarder is just incredibly unstable. It seems to hang after
bursts of packets and we usually have to restart the base station mote.
(The code in support/sdk/c/serialsource.c also prints the quite useful
error message 'foo' - apparently when no data is available on the serial
port - we commented that out long ago.)

Not sure if this is a problem with the TelosB, the sf, or both. I
remember having similar problems with TinyOS 1.x and am somewhat
surprised this hasn't been resolved in 2.x - or maybe it has and we
don't know the fix?

We do find that MicaZ motes are very stable as base stations (running
for weeks at a time without any hang). 

Thanks -
Matt