[Tinyos-help] Application works fine in tossim but not on motes

[Romain Thouvenin]

On 4/27/07, Urs Hunkeler <uhu at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi Romain,
>
> Just two wild ideas:
>
> - Maybe the simulator filters packets differently than the real
> implementation. You could be sending packets to the wrong mote id and
> the simulator would let them pass (the routing packets would pass as
> maybe they are sent as broadcast).

That makes sense. I already made some verifications in that direction,
 but I'll investigate deeper.

>
> - Maybe the payload is too long. The simulator might not care, but the
> real implementation probably would just drop the packets. I vaguely
> remember that there was once a message on this mailing-list that TinyOS
> silently drops overlong packets.

I had this idea too, but the data packets are 16 bytes long and the
routing packets are 23 bytes long.

>
> Did you check the error parameter of the sendDone() function?

Yes, SUCCESS


Thanks for the clues,
Romain