[Tinyos-help] Problems with javacomm

[Anton Riedl]

I'm not quite sure if it's the same for Tmotes, but for micaz I use / 
dev/ttyUSB0 for programming and /dev/ttyUSB1 for communication (on  
Ubuntu with TinyOS 2.x, though).

Anton



On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Claro Noda wrote:

> Frabrizio:
>
> did you sorted out the FTDI drivers correctly?
> remember there is a serial<->USB interface on the Tmote.
> the drivers are probably part of the kernel and the motelist output  
> make me guess you did.
>
> but, besides, the javacomm, in linux uses the RXTX. You might be  
> willing to check:
> http://wass.homelinux.net/howtos/Comm_How-To.shtml
>
> I'm not sure if this applies to the Tmote, though.
> There is no reference to it in: http://www.moteiv.com/community/ 
> Tmote_Linux_install
> Maybe somebody else in the list can advise.
>
> we are entertaining the idea of moving to ubuntu, so i might keep  
> an eye on this thread :)
>
> Claro.
>
>
> On 02/08/06, Fabrizio Stefani <fabrizio.stefani at arslogica.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I'm using Ubuntu 6.06, TinyOS 1.1, Java 1.5.0_06, JavaComm 3.0, GCC
> 4.0.3, Tmote tools 2.0.2.
>
> To install all I followed this guides:
>   http://www.chadmetcalf.com/tinyos-1x-on-ubuntu/
>    http://www.moteiv.com/community/Tmote_Linux_install
>
> I can program the tmotes, but I'm having some problems with the  
> javacomm
> because trying to test the Oscilloscope application the program  
> gives me
> an error and stops.
>
> $ motelist
> Reference  Device           Description
> ---------- ---------------- ---------------------------------------
> M4A9N70Z   /dev/ttyUSB0     Moteiv tmote sky
>
> $ export MOTECOM=serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:tmote
>
> $ java net.tinyos.tools.Listen
> Error on serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:57600: java.io.IOException: Couldn't
> configure /dev/ttyUSB0
>
> If I try to use some other java applications for testing the serial
> port, such as BlackBox, it seems to work.
>
> $ export CLASSPATH BlackBox.jar:$CLASSPATH
> $ java BlackBox -p /dev/ttyUSB0
> Opening port /dev/ttyUSB0
> /dev/ttyUSB0: PORT_OWNED [by this application]
>
> and the GUI opens giving me informations on that port.
>
> So what's happening with the serial connection with the tmote?
> Can you help me?
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