Tutorial: ZigBee

This page shows the tutorial for experiments with ZigBee communications and the testbed.

The ZigBee Testbed in B1-612, Main Building

Useful links:

• TinyOS intro (Chinese)
• Programming model of TinyOS (Chinese)
• TinyOS main site and official tutorials

The simplest example

This example shows

1) how the event-driven programming works,

2) how to burn a program to a TelosB node.

for details you can see simplest tinyos program

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1. Configuration file, SimpleAppC.nc

configuration SimpleAppC{
}

implementation{ 
    components SimpleC, MainC;
    SimpleC.Boot -> MainC.Boot;
}

this file will link two components SimpleC and MainC

2. SimpleC.nc

module SimpleC{
    uses interface Boot;
}

implementation{
    event void Boot.booted() {
    }
}

When system starts, it will call interface booted in MainC, but this interface is not implemented.

So SimpleC implements it.

MainC in nesC is just like main function in C.

In this example, it does nothing, so it is just like following code in C:

int main () {
  return 0;
}

3. Makefile

COMPONENT=SimpleAppC
include $(MAKERULES)

with Makefile we can compile the code by typing

make telosb

4. install

make telosb install bsl,/dev/ttyUSB0

Measurement

To measure various information from received packets.

Details is here

Code template

ExampleC.nc

// extract info upon receiving a packet.
event message_t* Receive.receive(message_t* bufPtr, void* payload, uint8_t len) {
    if (len != sizeof(msg_t)) {
        return bufPtr;
    } else {
        msg_t* msg = (msg_t*)payload;
        // msg is the info, we can do something upon it.
        // write your code with msg here, for example, we show it by led
        call Leds.set(msg->counter);
        return bufPtr;
    }
}

Payload

ExampleC.nc

// following code is the implementation
// to send a packet, we should create a packet at first.
message_t packet; // packet is a container of payload.
bool locked; // when it is sending a packet, sender is locked.
uint16_t counter = 0; // the payload in this example

event void Timer0.fired() {
    if (locked) {
        return;
    }
    ++counter;
    mst_t *msg = (msg_t*) call Packet.getPayload(&packet, sizeof(msg_t));
    // suppose msg contains payload `counter`
    msg->counter = counter;
    // if there is other payload in msg, do assignment.
    // to send this packet
    if (call AMSend.send(AM_BROADCAST_ADDR, &packet, sizeof(msg_t)) == SUCCESS) {
        locked = TRUE;
        // the packet is being sent
    }
}

Header

ExampleC.h

#ifndef EXAMPLE_H
#define EXAMPLE_H

typedef nx_struct example_msg {
  nx_uint16_t counter;
} msg_t;

enum {
    AM_MSG = 6, // mesage group
};
#endif

ExampleAppC.nc

configuration ExampleAppC {}
implementation {
    components MainC, ExampleC as App, LedsC;
    components new AMSenderC(AM_MSG);
    components new AMReceiverC(AM_MSG);
    components new TimerMilliC();
    components ActiveMessageC;
  
    App.Boot -> MainC.Boot;
  
    App.Receive -> AMReceiverC;
    App.AMSend -> AMSenderC;
    App.AMControl -> ActiveMessageC;
    App.Leds -> LedsC;
    App.MilliTimer -> TimerMilliC;
    App.Packet -> AMSenderC;
}

Footer

ExampleC.nc

// to unlock
event void AMSend.sendDone(message_t* bufPtr, error_t error) {
    if (&packet == bufPtr) {
        locked = FALSE;
    }
}