Hi Martin, Do not use startPeriodic instead use report_timer.startOneShot. You do not need periods but single shots of timer.
best regards, Faisal Aslam [email protected] wrote: > Hi Philip, > > thanks for the hint, it worked so far, my timer starts now periodically. > But, unfortunately, there is another problem occured. > > Let me explain briefly the scenario: My tmote sky should send not in a fixed > timer interval, it should send in a random interval. Thats everything I want. > > Therefore, I wrote this in die AMControl.startDone() > > call report_timer.startPeriodic( call Random.rand16() % TIMER_PERIOD_REPORT); > > My timer is the report_timer and TIMER_PERIOD_REPORT is defined as an uint_16 > in > my header file. This should initialize the timer with a random value (this > works > so far). > > Now, when the report_timer fires, I want to compute a new random value and set > the report_timer period to the new value. > Therefore I wrote in the report_timer.fired() > > call report_timer.startPeriodic( call Random.rand16() % TIMER_PERIOD_REPORT ); > > I thjink this should be right, or? > The problem is, that the mote stops to send reports after a while (sometimes > after 10 packets, sometimes after 300 packets) and I don't have any idea why?! > > Do you have an idea? > > Best, > Martin > > > > Quoting Philip Levis <[email protected]>: > > >> On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:33 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm programming at the moment a little application, where it is >>> desired, to use >>> random numbers. >>> >>> I looked at thedocumentation, there is a RandomC, wich is like a >>> wrapper for >>> RandomMlgcC (and the other not so good one...). >>> >>> Now, I added this to my configuration: >>> >>> components RandomC; >>> >>> and >>> >>> App.Random -> RandomC; >>> >>> In my module file, I added this: >>> >>> interface Random; >>> >>> What should I do now, to initialize the generator? I thought, I >>> should do sth. >>> like Random.init() in the Boot.booted() method, but this is not the >>> right way. >>> >>> So, please, any hints how to start (and use) the generator. >>> >>> Would be very kind! >>> >> The generator is automatically initialized. Just use the Random >> interface to get random numbers. You can also re-initialize the RNG if >> you want. >> >> Phil >> >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
