Hi,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:36 AM, mike healy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From your last mail I get the impression that you used the "Shimmer
> Windows Bootstrap Loader" Windows based application to load the BoilerPlate
> image on your shimmer. Have you tried building and installing BoilerPlate
> from source to see if that works (to test your build environment).
>

Exactly, I used that famous "Shimmer Windows Bootstrap Loader" to load the
BoillerPlate image.


>
> From the rest of your explanation the shimmer does seem to be bound to
> /dev/rfcomm0 correctly, and you are using minicom correctly. If you want
> you can try to connect to the shimmer running BoilerPlate with minicom.
> Once connected, from the minicom window type <Ctrl+f> (i.e. hold down the
> Ctrl key while pressing f). Each time this command is sent the red LED on
> the shimmer should toggle. Similarly <Ctrl+g> will start data streaming
> (this will be unintelligible as the data is binary, not ascii, but it will
> confirm operation). Pressing the spacebar will stop streaming.
>

Okay, I'll try that now.


>  When building the Bluetooth application are you typing:
>
>> make shimmer
>
> or
>
>> make shimmer2r
>
>
I did none of those. Mine is:

make shimmer2

That is because I did not successfully install tinyos for shimmer2r, and it
happened that I still can program shimmer motes to do almost everything
using the usb connection. It's only this time when I try with Bluetooth
that it blocks me.


> It should be the latter, assuming you are using shimmer2r devices (or
> "make shimmer2" if using shimmer2 devices). If necessary I can send you a
> compiled image, once you confirm which shimmer version you are using, to
> test.
>

As I said, I have a shimmer2r device, but use a shimmer2 compilation (?!)

Ha.
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