well, I'll be darned...I wonder if any of this works:
http://javax-usb.org/
MS
Raffaele Gravina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think another solution could use JAVA USB (btw, AFAIK it's also OS
> dependent) to obtain the description of the usb devices attached to the
> local machine and parse them to find e.g. a "Crossbow Telos Rev.B". Note
> that no matter the way you choose to find "motes" attached, you can't be
> sure if it's a Basestation or not, and if you have multiple motes
> attached but just one of them runs e.g. the Basestation, I guess you'll
> need some "indirect" trick to locate which one it is.
>
> Please keep me posted on what you come up with... i'd really appreciate!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raffaele
>
>
> 2009/10/1 Michael Schippling <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
> cc back to the help list...because this is only my opinion...
>
> Look at the various motelist impls. Someone posted a perl one
> recently, and the standard TOS Windows one is C++. Java has the
> feature that it doesn't know squat about the underlying OS ("they"
> even removed the System.getenv() method early on for no reason)
> so any specialized function needs to be done with JNI. You could
> encapsulate the motelist functions in Java I suppose but they
> would still be system dependent.
>
> MS
>
> Rubén Ríos del Pozo wrote:
> > Thank you Michael for your fast reply. I can infer from your
> answer that
> > the only way of getting my app to work automatically (i.e. retrieving
> > the port number) is launching the motelist command from the Java
> app and
> > somehow to parse the output of the motelist command, am I right? Any
> > other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Michael Schippling escribió:
> >> To my knowledge NO... motelist relies on various OS hacks to
> >> find certain USB devices, the registry in Widows and parsing
> >> the boot messages in Linux I think, and there is no common
> >> way to determine what is attached to a regular serial port.
> >>
> >> Kinda makes you wish JINI hadn't gone down the swirler...
> >> MS
> >>
> >>
> >> Rubén Ríos del Pozo wrote:
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> I am writing a Java application to read and send data to sensor
> motes
> >>> from my PC. I was wondering if tinyos.jar provides any means of
> >>> obtaining the port number (COM), to which my sensor node is
> >>> connected, without the need of executing the "motelist" command and
> >>> using this information as input to the program. I would like my
> >>> program to be able to do it automatically without the need of user
> >>> intervention.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance
> >>>
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