decent-tools 0.2

decentnode tools

Command-line tools for programming and reconfiguring wireless sensor nodes from Decentlab GmbH.

Description

Development of command-line tools to manage decentnode. Currently, the following tools are completed:

• dn-bsl - msp430 bsl programmer

• dn-tc65i - tc65i manager

• dn-ftdi-cbus - ftdi cbus settings

Tools which are in active development:

• dn-serialer - serial manager for decentnode. serial id is stored on both ftdi and msp430.

• udev rule for automatic symbolic link generation (ttyUSB0 -> tty.usbserial-XXXXXXX) for linux systems.

Developed on MacOSX 10.9 and tested on Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie).

Installation

Before installing with pip, please make sure that you remove any previous (either installed manually or with apt-get) decent-tools package.

ftdi dependency can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install python-ftdi #debpkg (debian) based
brew install libftdi --build-from-source # homebrew (macosx) based, make sure the python binding is built

The python-msp430-tools dependency is not correctly packaged for pypi; therefore it can be installed using this command from the trunk:

sudo apt-get install bzr # needed for the following
sudo pip install bzr+lp:python-msp430-tools/trunk/@python-msp430-tools-0.7#egg=python_msp430_tools-0.7

Finally, the decent-tools can be installed as follows:

sudo pip install decent-tools

That’s all folks. By the way, I hope you won’t use sudo with the homebrew pip commands.