U s e r ' s G u i d e User's Guide eZ430-RF2480 Sensor Monitor 2008 SWRU157 Low-Power RF
Contents EZ430-RF2480 SENSOR MONITOR ............................................................................... 1 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 2 2. INSTALLATION......................................................................................................... 3 3. DRIVER INSTALLATION .......................................................................................... 3 3.1. 3.2. 4. WINDOWS XP..
1. Introduction eZ430-RF2480 (formerly eZ430-RFZACC06) Sensor Monitor is a PC application that will be used to monitor the sensors in a ZigBee network. The network is formed when setting up the basic out of the box eZ430-RF2480 Demo that includes the ZigBee Accelerator Sample Application (ZASA). This document will only describe the user interface of the PC application.
2. Installation The installation of eZ430-RF2480 Sensor Monitor is very straight forward. Download the zip file from internet and unzip the setup file. Double click on the setup file and follow the instructions. Note: The PC application should be installed before the eZ430-RF2480 dongle is connected to the PC. This is to be sure that the required files for the driver installation are available 3.
lll If the IAR kickstart for MSP430 has been installed before this application, it might be that this dialog will pop up and ask the user to select one of the two inf files. Both inf files are equal and it doesn’t matter which one that is selected. Either should work fine. The installation will start without any further selections. If this warning appears, the option “Continue Anyway” must be selected in order to install the driver.
This dialog will be shown when everything has been successfully installed. Click Finish to close the wizard.
3.2. Windows Vista The first time the USB dongle (sink) is connected to the PC, the new HW is detected and the system will ask to install driver software. Select “Locate and install driver software”. Select “I don’t have the disc. Show me other options.” Select “Browse my computer for driver software.
The required “inf” file will be installed together with the application. Browse to the directory of the application and select the sub directory “Drivers”. Click Next to continue. Select “Install this driver software anyway” At the end the software should be successfully installed. Click Close to end the installation.
4. User Interface The user interface is developed to be as simple as possible with only a few buttons and input fields. In fact, the user does not need to interact with the user interface in order to run the application. When the eZ430-RF2480 dongle is connected to the PC, the application will search for an applicable COM port and start reading if a connection is successfully established.
Figure 1: Screenshot of the eZ430-RF2480 Sensor Monitor 9
4.1. Toolbar The list of available COM ports will automatically be updated when the eZ430-RF2480 dongle is connected or disconnected. It is also possible to force refresh of the list by clicking on the green “refresh” button . If the applicable COM port can be found when “refresh” has been clicked, the application will automatically try to capture data from the COM port.
The “About” button 4.1.1. can be clicked to obtain a summary of this application. Configuration Click on the “Configuration” button and the settings dialog will appear. Temperature unit Celsius or Fahrenheit can be selected. Time interval The timestamp of each node will be checked regularly to see if any message has been received within the given time interval. If the elapsed time is longer than specified, the Node will be removed from the screen.
4.2. The Network view The PC demo will always display one node on the top of the screen, the Sink. Below the Sink the presence of additional network nodes will be displayed as they are detected. The status of the depicted nodes are described below. Sink node not connected to the PC. An attempt to read from the COM port has been made, but no response received. Sink node connected to the PC but reading from the COM port is not active. Sink node connected to the PC and reading from the COM port.
The meaning of each node is also shown if the mouse is held over the node for more than a second. Note: The Nodes are connected with arrows to show the relationship between parent and child nodes based on the CSKIP addressing scheme. This relationship is with respect to addressing, and does not necessarily reflect the path taken for routing messages between a source and the sink. 4.2.1.
5. Troubleshooting 5.1. Strange temperature values If the temperature is much different from the expected value, this is because the temperature sensor is not calibrated. 5.2. Status of the connected dongle It is possible for the status of the connected dongle to get out of synchronization if the dongle gets disconnected and connected rapidly without any delay in between. In this case the start/stop capturing data should be used manually to get the capture operational again. 5.3.
The serial COM port. The composite device When the eZ430-RF2480 is removed, these device drivers should disappear from the view in the Device Manager. If they don’t disappear, a restart of the PC will be necessary. Check that the “MSP430” device is available in the drop down list of available COM ports.
5.6. Not able to start the application If an error message about missing the msvcp80.dll is received, or the error message shown below appears when attempting to start the application, you may be required to install an additional package from Microsoft. The package contains some additional runtime components needed by applications developed with Visual C++. To resolve this problem, download the file vcredist_x86.exe from the URL below and install the package. http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.
6. Document History Revision Date Description/Changes swru157 08/03/2008 Initial release.
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