On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Janos Sallai <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sarah,
>
> Just to clarify this issue a bit: there is no mechanism in TinyOS that
> would allow the receiver to query what the transmitter's TX power
> setting was.
>
> CC2420Packet.getPower(msg) should only be called by the transmitter,
> _before_ calling AMSend.send(msg). All other uses would result in an
> undefined return value.
>
> Nothing prevents you from writing the transmit power value into the
> payload, though. That way, the receiver would get it for sure... if
> that's what you want to achieve.
>

I would just like to reiterate that it is unclear what value knowing the
transmitter's transmit
number would have.   It is relative to the transmitter's context.


>
> Janos
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Sarra Sarah <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I want to set transmit power for cc2420, so i did that:
> >
> > I added this line on make file: CFLAGS +="-DCC2420_DEF_RFPWER=1"
> >  and then i wanted to read transmit power in receiving the packet i used
> > call CC2420Packet.getPower(msg), but transmit power is 0x00. i dont know
> > where is the problem.
> >
> > Thank you for help !!
> >
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