Thomas Watteyne twatteyne

The IoT-LAB platform lets you log into the server of the site your motes are located at (e.g. rennes.iot-lab.info). It all works fine.

In some cases, you want to be able to run programs and interact with the motes' serial port on your local computer. One example is running the OpenVisualizer from the OpenWSN project.

This Gist contains a couple of ideas about how to do that using SSH forwarding and a pair of Python scripts.

How it works

Create an experiment. You can use the code in bsp_uart.hex as an example, the mote simply prints Hello, World! on its serial port every 2s. The source code is at https://github.com/openwsn-berkeley/openwsn-fw.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Motes and Paths</title>
	<style>
	html, body {
	height: 100%;
	margin: 0;

	BANNER = r'''
	This script calculates the default channel hopping sequence for the
	IEEE802.15.4e-2012 TSCH mode.

	\author Thomas Watteyne
	\date November 2014
	\license http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
	'''

	class Lfsr(object):

	'''
	drop this file in a new directory:
	openwsn-sw\software\openvisualizer\bin\testFindSerialPort\

	double-click to run.

	example output:

	[('COM6', 115200)]
	Script ended successfully. Press Enter to close.

	import random
	import visual

	MAXDIFF = 0.05

	class ArrowCoords(object):
	x = random.random()
	y = random.random()
	z = random.random()
	def get(self):