[Tinyos-help] Any ideas on testing the network

[Eric Keller]

My entire 54 mote network is set up with connections to a network of
desktop PCs with serial ports, which I intend to
exploit for ground truth purposes in the future.  However, I find that for
my purposes logging the messages from a base station captures the
information I want.
Printf is very useful for debugging and I think it could easily be
used for your purposes
by connecting at least a subset of your network to PCs.  When we get
new office desktops,
we bolt the old ones to the wall in our lab for data collection purposes.
Eric


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali at usc.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:52 PM, BAI LI <libai0915 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am working on a network application which implemented based on 802.15.4
>> protocols. I normally test the network by plugging in the motes to my laptop
>> and observe the printf statement to debug the network. How are you guys
>> doing for testing? Is there any easier way to test the network? Can moteview
>> or moteworks be used for this purpose? If there are a 30 motes' network, how
>> to test it in an efficient and effective way? Please help me thanks you in
>> advance.
>
> If all the motes are connected by serial or ethernet, you can continue
> to use printf. Otherwise you can piggyback some information in the
> packets when you send them to a node that is connected or place a few
> nodes in different locations to snoop the packets.
>
> - om_p
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