[Tinyos-help] Weird results...

Dongyan Chen cdongyan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 09:32:18 PDT 2006


When you program your motes, have you programmed them with different
node ids like

make tmote reinstall,NODE_ID?

- Dongyan

On 7/6/06, Jose L. Ponce <martinez at tkn.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My question is very simple: I have 5 motes with the same program
> installed. This program receives an instruction from the computer and
> executes it (i.e. "dac output to 2 volts").
>
> I am sending the instruction using moteif.send(MOTEID, message), so
> theoretically just the mote MOTEID should receive the message. This is
> not the case, though, and all motes seem to receive the message and
> execute it.
>
> And what's more strange: if I have two motes and I send "set dac to
> 0xffff" (which should be the maximum, 3 volts) both motes receive the
> message and each of them has an output of 1.5 volts!!
>
> The nodes are connected to the computer through USB and communication is
> made using this means, not radio.
>
> The DAC outputs are connected to an inverter amplifier and this
> amplifier is connected to a DC-Controlled Dimmer. Could the problem be
> related to impedances???
>
> Any thoughts on what could be causing this anomaly and how to solve it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jose.
>
>
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