[Tinyos-help] Running Blink in TOSSIM with GUI

[De-MonHell]

On Monday 01 September 2008 15:48:02 dev wrote:
> Hi
>
> Extreme Noob : Be nice ! :)
>
> Using the Xubuntos vmware image.
> `make micaz sim` in the /opt/tinyos-2.1.0/apps/Blink is working fine..
> and I can work in the python shell just fine.
>
> But this is a major pain. I want to have all the fancy GUI, with a
> button to click "Start" etc. etc. How can I get a GUI simulator
> working ?
>
> I searched the archives and the web. Most of the mails talked about
> using `make pc` , which doesn't seem to work on tinyos-2 . Nor did
> `java net.tinyos.sim.SimDriver`
>
> Any ideas on what I should do next?
>
> Thanks
> Devdatta
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it depends on what you need to see/change throughout the GUI.

if you need to see the state of communications between nodes and start and 
stop the simulation take a look on:
http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/TinyOS_2.x_index_of_contributed_code#Octopus

if you want only to see the state of the leds on the simulated nodes, you can 
build your own GUI in python. 
one button will lead the simulation to start and you can make a loop with 
continous variable inspection (as described in the tutorial) to change the 
state of three round shape that will represent the leds when their states 
change.