Michael Schippling wrote: > Rather than doing extensive online research, and because I don't have > the hardware to test it anyway, I'm hoping someone can point me to the > right places to JustGet(TM) what I need. > > Not being a Macintoshiteer I have no idea what this entails: > I have a project that will want to use a Mac to talk to a TmoteSky using > my Java code. I don't know what version of what yet, I suspect late OSX, > but I don't know if it's gonna be Intel or PowerPC. > > I assume that I need and can get a modern JRE (from Sun?), but I also > need the javax.comm and FTDI stuff. I've googled some refs to various > sources for both of the above but none of them seem to agree. And all > seem to believe that I will be doing the development on the Mac so they > concentrate on installing compilers and building tools... > > Surely there is an existing comm package that I can just install? > It would also be nice if I could download new code to the Tmote with > a standalone msp430-bsl. Does that exist in binary someplace? > > Any advice greatly appreciated. > thx > MS >
Are you using TinyOS 1.x or TinyOS 2.x? TinyOS 2.x now ships with its own serial library, so you don't need to install Sun's CommAPI library if that's the version you're using. You should be able to just follow steps 1-4 and 8-9 of Kevin Klues's tutorial (http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/Installing_tinyos-2.x_on_Mac_OS_X_(Tiger)) to get everything installed, including a Java environment and the TinyOS SDK. TinyOS 1.x should be largely the same, except that you'll need to install RXTX 2.0 (http://www.rxtx.org) as a drop-in replacement for CommAPI. I'm not sure if there are prebuilt binaries for it anywhere, but the source distribution includes a script that can build and package it for you. Greg Hackmann _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
