[Tinyos-help] using MoteIV Sky from Linux - how to?

[Ákos Maróy]

Urs Hunkeler wrote:
> I'm using tmotes on gentoo, but with tinyos-2.x, so there are some

and how did you set it up? just follow the instructions here:
http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.x/doc/html/install-tinyos.html ?
instead of the RPMs, what packages did you use?

or do you have an ebuild for tinyos 2.x?

> things that I can't help you with. It seems that moteiv has some
> extensions to tinyos-1.x (boomerang, http://www.moteiv.com/software/ ).
> For some reason they did not explain how to install these extensions on
> the page you mentioned. With this pure tinyos-1.x installation some
> things might not work. In my experience tinyos-2.x works well with tmotes.

are you using an tmote that has the msp430 inside it, as the MoteIV
tmotes do?

> To compile a sample program, go to the directory with the sample program
> and run "make tmote". To compile and install it (on the first mote the
> program finds), type "make tmote install". To just install it (once you
> have already compiled it), type "make tmote reinstall". The "install"
> and "reinstall" parameters take an optional argument to set the mote id.
> So you could compile a program once with "make tmote" and then install
> it on several motes with plugging in one mote at a time and each time
> call "make tmote reinstall,x" where x is the mote id.
> 
> To test the Blink application, go to wherever you installed tinyos (for
> instance "cd ~/tinyos-1.x") and then change to the "apps/Blink"
> subdirectory. Plug one mote into a USB port and type "make tmote
> install". This should compile the Blink application and install it onto
> the mote.

I'll give it a try - thanks..


Akos