TinyOS 2.1.2 installation steps with LED toggleing tutorial on IRIS Mote

There are two ways to install TinyOS in Ubuntu 12.10 LTS

1. Manually download tinyos-2.1.2.tar.gz from below link

http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/source/

2. Add TinyOS repository address in the repository source file. (Which is shown detail below)

Note:- Before start installation move from user mode to root mode using below command then and then you can modify the system file

$ sudo su

Following steps are the installation of tinyOS Repository.

Step:-1

First of all, run following commands to open sources.list file

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add following lines at the end of sources.list

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal universe
deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu lucid main
deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu natty main

You will get this dialog box

save it and Close.

Note:- Perform gedit command in root mode otherwise it will not modify.

Step:-2

Execute the following commands.

$ sudo apt-get update

To get the list of versions of tiny os type following command

$ sudo apt-get install tinyos

You will get available versions of TinyOS & you have to select which version you want to install

Here we are going to install TinyOS-2.1.2

$ sudo apt-get install tinyos-2.1.2

Step:-3

Run this command if you have not installed subversion of tinyos or jump to step-4

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

Note:- If you get package error then run following command

$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Again you have to execute step-2 command for update

Step:-4

After installation of TinyOS, go into the tinyos-2.1.2 directory

$ cd opt

$ cd tinyos-2.1.2

Step-5

Now you have to check tinyos.sh file exist or not. If not then using gedit command create tinyos.sh file and add below lines of code and save it.

#! /usr/bin/env bash

# Here we setup the environment

# variables needed by the tinyos

# make system

echo “Setting up for TinyOS 2.1.2 Repository Version”

export TOSROOT=

export TOSDIR=

export MAKERULES=

TOSROOT=”/opt/tinyos-2.1.2″

TOSDIR=”$TOSROOT/tos”

CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java:.:$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java/tinyos.jar

MAKERULES=”$TOSROOT/support/make/Makerules”

export TOSROOT

export TOSDIR

export CLASSPATH

export MAKERULES

If tinyos.sh file exist then match this lines of code

Type following command to give permission to tinyos.sh file

$ sudo chmod 777 tinyos.sh

Step-6

To make that folder as your TOSROOT path, run below command to open /.bashrc file

$ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

In /.bashrc file you have to add below one line of code at the end of the script

#Sourcing the tinyos environment variable setup script

source /opt/tinyos-2.1.2/tinyos.sh

Now save it and Close.

Note:- make sure you have to modify the bash file in root mode

Step-7

Close the terminal and restart PC.

Now you can check whether tinyos successfully installed or not. For that, after the reboot PC open console again and you will see the message on the console.

To go in /opt/tinyos-2.1.2 /apps/ Execute following commands,

$cd opt

$cd tinyos-2.1.2

$cd apps

$cd Blink

Now you have to execute which kind of Mote you use whether it is IRIS or MICA2:-

If IRIS then execute

$make iris

You will get this dialog box

If MICA2 then execute this command

$make mica2

You will get this dialog box

If still, error occur then we have to change permission and for that, we have to go back in /opt/ directory and run this command

$ sudo chmod -R 777 tinyos-2.1.2

-: EXAMPLE:-

LED blinking Tutorial with IRIS Mote

After successfully installed tinyos, how we can use it for various application. Let’s see.

Here we are going to use two wireless hardware to demonstrate LED blinking on the predefined time interval.

1. IRIS Mote (51 Pin)

2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4protocol
More suitable for wireless sensor network with Embedded application
Compatible with various IoT sensor
Speed 250kbps data rate

2. Mote Interface Board

MIB520 interface board

This interface board is use for to upload code in various mote or sensors.

Note:-Now we have to connect both device in such a way that antenna of IRIS mote and USB of interface board must be in same side.

Commands

$ cd opt

$ cd tinyos-2.1.2

$ cd apps

In this directory, you will see various projects file like

Now we have to go in Blink directory /opt/tinyos2.1.2/apss/Blink

$ cd Blink

In this directory, you will see various blink related file

If you want to modify the code of this project then you can open BlinkC.nc. Even if you can modify any project code with “.nc “extension file.BlinkAppC.nc file is for configuration and BlinkC.nc Module file.

Now upload the code in IRIS Mote then we have to execute below command in /opt/tinyos2.1.2/apps/Blink/ directory only (same for other projects)

$ make iris install.1 mib520,/dev/ttyUSB0

Note:-

1. In the above command “install.1″ So here “.1” is node id if you use another mote then we have to use the different number because when we receive the signal from specific mote to base station then the signal will only identify by their node number.

2. mib520 is programming board name

3. dev/tty is location of board

If you will get an error like permission denied then assign permission and again execute the above command to upload code.

$ sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0

After successfully run above command you will get this kind of dialog box