[Tinyos-devel] DelugeT2 and MIB600, serialforwarder

[Razvan Musaloiu-E.]

Hi!

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Eric Decker wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Vincent Borrel <vincent.borrel at lip6.fr>wrote:
>
>> Basically I stopped trying using deluge T2. I couldn't get past injecting
>> an image. Disseminate or disseminate and reprogram couldn't be got to
>> effectively do anything useful.
>> I quit losing my time on that one after 2 all nighters. That's been far
>> more than all the time I could spend exchanging motes for my project, and I
>> feel like having wasted a lot of time with that superb tool.
>>
>> If someone got the magical procedure to make Deluge T2 work, could they
>> please indicate me the correct shaman sequence of sorts ?
>>
>
> If someone writes something up on how to get Deluge T2 to work, please post
> them on docs.tinyos.net, the wiki.  Where it will be easier
> to find than the mailing list.

Note: the Deluge T2 manual is already there:
 	http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/Deluge_T2

--
Razvan ME

>>
>> OK, rant over, back to work ;).
>>
>> Vincent.
>>
>> Le 4 sept. 08 à 15:53, Razvan Musaloiu-E. a écrit :
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for the patch! There is one thing I would like to warn about: the
>> serial upload protocol for Deluge T2 doesn't use any user level acks and
>> the SF TCP protocol doesn't indicate the failure of a failure of a serial
>> write. I argue for adding support for this as part of this thread:
>>
>> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tinyos-devel/2008-June/thread.html
>> #3052
>>
>> Because of this limitation I stop trying to made Deluge T2 work using
>> the SF protocol.
>>
>> Note: a good news is that MIG600 is using a serial speed of 57600 which
>> should make serial writer failure very infrequent. :-)
>>
>> --
>> Razvan ME
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Vincent Borrel wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have been trying to get Deluge T2 to work with an MIB600 programming board.
>>
>>
>> I finally managed to get it to work using a serialforwarder (on default port
>> 9002), and adding two modifications:
>>
>>
>> in $TOSROOT/tinyos-2.x/support/sdk/python/tos.py, I added the timeout
>> parameter to SFClient.write()
>>
>> @line 713
>>
>>  def write(self, payload, timeout):
>>
>> instead of
>>
>>  def write(self, payload):
>>
>> (hoping it doesn't break havoc, which normally shouldn't)
>>
>>
>>
>> the python script tos-deluge has also been modified. Here is the diff:
>>
>>
>> 402,403c402,403
>>
>> <     if sys.argv[2] == 'sf':
>> <         baudrate = 0
>>
>> ---
>>
>>    if sys.argv[2] in BAUDRATES:
>>        baudrate = BAUDRATES[sys.argv[2]]
>>
>> 405,428c405,417
>>
>> <       if sys.argv[2] in BAUDRATES:
>> <           baudrate = BAUDRATES[sys.argv[2]]
>> <       else:
>> <           try:
>> <               baudrate = int(sys.argv[2])
>> <           except:
>> <               print "ERROR: Wrong baudrate"
>> <               sys.exit(-1)
>> <
>> <     # Initializes serial or serialforwarder port communication
>> <     if baudrate == 0:
>> <       try:
>> <           s = tos.SFClient(sys.argv[1], 9002)
>> <           am = tos.AM(s)
>> <       except:
>> <           print "ERROR: Unable to initialize network port connection to", sys.argv[1]
>> <           sys.exit(-1)
>> <     else:
>> <       try:
>> <           s = tos.Serial(sys.argv[1], baudrate, flush=True, debug=False)
>> <           am = tos.AM(s)
>> <       except:
>> <           print "ERROR: Unable to initialize serial port connection to", sys.argv[1]
>> <           sys.exit(-1)
>>
>> ---
>>        try:
>>            baudrate = int(sys.argv[2])
>>        except:
>>            print "ERROR: Wrong baudrate"
>>            sys.exit(-1)
>>
>>    # Initializes serial port communication
>>    try:
>>        s = tos.Serial(sys.argv[1], baudrate, flush=True, debug=False)
>>        am = tos.AM(s)
>>    except:
>>        print "ERROR: Unable to initialize serial port connection to", sys.argv[1]
>>        sys.exit(-1)
>>
>>
>> I hope this can be useful to the community.
>>
>>
>> Vincent.
>>
>>
>>
>> Vincent Borrel
>> vincent.borrel at lip6.fr
>>
>> ---
>>
>> *"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."* - Derek Bok
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Eric B. Decker
> Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
> Autonomous Systems Lab
> Jack Baskin School of Engineering
> UCSC
>