Contiki on Sensinode

Setting up the remote console

This is to look at device events and log (like a terminal window through usb) (example done using OS X 10.6 but Linux should be the same)

• Download & install drivers for the FTD232R chip (a USB 2.0 to Serial UART Converter) built in to the sensinode
  • NB Modern versions of linux don't require this - drivers install automatically.
• Download and install Minicom (a terminal emulation program)
• Plug in the Sensinode and see if it appears correctly:

ls -l /dev/tty.*

if you get something like

/dev/tty.usbserial-A10047zL

then you can set up minicom to use that port

sudo minicom -s /dev/tty.usbserial-A10047zL

if everything has worked, you will now see activity logs from the sensinode which look like this

unhandled event                                           
Button 1 pressed.                                         
ADC reading accelerators.                                 
Button 2 pressed.
ADC reading voltage.
checksum ok
Network status received:no connection                                           
checksum ok   

--Fb5v07 23:56, 19 November 2010 (GMT)