currently I am using telosb to run contiki applications. I followed the official site tutorial and apparently if u do make TARGET=sky it compiles the source files. However, doing make TARGET=sky hello-world.upload
does not work. Shows
make sky-reset sky-upload
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world'
make -k -j 1 sky-reset-sequence
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world'
Done
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world'
make -j 1 sky-upload-sequence
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world'
Done
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world'
rm hello-world.ihex
which according to the official site tutorial means that the board is not connected. I am very certain it is connected. Also, make login never shows anything for me since the previous command didnt work.
Eventually, a friend of mine discovered a way to flash contiki applications into telosb. However, you need TinyOS development environment in your Instant Contiki. You can find information on setting up TinyOS environment in Ubuntu on www.eetutorials.com.
This doesn't seem like a proper way of doing it but well so far it works for me when running simple applications
Step 1:
Compile your applications by doing:
make TARGET=sky application-name
Step 2:
msp430-objcopy application-name.sky -O ihex application-name.ihex
sudo tos-bsl --telosb -c /dev/ttyUSB0 -r -e -I -p application-name.ihex
However, make login still doesn't show anything hence I have been seeing my printf outputs
via Serial Port Terminal application which need to be installed. My guess is that contiki supports sky but not really for telosb? I am no expert and I can't tell the difference between the 2 boards. However, hope this information help and hope a contiki expert can further clarify on this.
Cheers