On 10/26/2012 02:48 PM, Massimo Soricetti wrote:
> Hello, I would make a zigbee network under Linux. I know a lot of
> windows programming but little on linux, I'm mostly a linux user at the
> moment, but hopefully quickly evolving.
>
> I got a Freescale USB dongle (and a iDigi one) and of course the next
> stop was this list :-)
> Does linux have the tools (lowpan-tools etc) to do the job _right now_?
> Is it reliable?
Hi Massimo,
Which Freescale dongle?
Linux does not support Zigbee in-kernel. There is a license conflict
between the GPL and the license that the Zigbee Alliance puts their
documentation under. Until the Zigbee Alliance changes, there will
likely not ever be an in-kernel implementation of Zigbee. There is a
userspace implementation of Zigbee called FreakZ. I've not used it. I
don't know how current it is.
Linux is working to support IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN. Support is in the
mainline kernel. It kind of works. It's not production-ready yet.
> This can be done on any kernel or newer versions are required in order
> to run lowpan-tools and apply ZB-related kernel patches?
What's in there right now is the latest. I recently gave a talk at
ELC-Europe about this. I'll be posting my material to this list shortly.
> Is there a linux-zigbee-HOWTO somewhere?
Read through this site:
http://code.google.com/p/linux-wsn/wiki/Mainline
http://code.google.com/p/linux-wsn/wiki/TableOfContents?tm=6
Alan.
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