Developers often follow a common sequence when they get started with OpenWSN. This page describes the milestones in that sequence, and how to use our documentation to complete them. The steps usually are:
- Get some motes.
- Blink a mote
- Start and observe a minimal network in OpenVisualizer
- Ping a mote
- Send an application message to a mote
The sections below describe each step in detail.
Get Some Motes
See Hardware for the list of supported motes. TelosB is a common choice due to its popularity and good support in OpenWSN.
Blink a Mote
This milestone requires building, loading, and running the firmware on the mote. Below are the individual steps.
- See Toolchains to select a build environment and install the appropriate tools.
- See Download to install the OpenWSN firmware source code.
- Follow the instructions for your build environment to build and install the 01bsp_leds firmware on a mote.
Run a Minimal Network
This milestone creates a two-node network, and uses OpenVisualizer to observe its state.
- Build and install the 03oos-openwsn firmware on two motes.
- Keep one mote connected to a PC via USB.
- Install and run OpenVisualizer on the PC.
- Select the connected mote from the OpenVisualizer motes menu.
- Click the toggle button for the mote to make it the DAG root of the wireless network.