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User's Guide

eZ430-RF2480 Sensor Monitor 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

SWRU157 

2008                                                                                                

Low-Power RF 

Summary of Contents for eZ430-RF2480

Page 1: ...U s e r s G u i d e User s Guide eZ430 RF2480 Sensor Monitor SWRU157 2008 Low Power RF ...

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Page 3: ... 1 Zoom 13 4 2 2 Scroll bars 13 4 2 3 Moving a Node 13 4 2 4 Removal of a Node 13 4 3 STATUS BAR 13 5 TROUBLESHOOTING 14 5 1 STRANGE TEMPERATURE VALUES 14 5 2 STATUS OF THE CONNECTED DONGLE 14 5 3 MORE THAN ONE DONGLE CONNECTED TO THE PC 14 5 4 CONNECT DISCONNECT OTHER USB DEVICE ON SAME PC 14 5 5 USB DONGLE NOT AUTOMATICALLY DETECTED WHEN CONNECTED 14 5 6 NOT ABLE TO START THE APPLICATION 16 6 DO...

Page 4: ...d 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 Further details about the hardware platform and the ZigBee Accelerator Sample Application ZASA can be found on the eZ430 RF2480 Demo kit website at www ti com eZ430 RF2480 2 ...

Page 5: ...ation are available 3 Driver installation The PC application will communicate with the eZ430 RF2480 dongle over a virtual COM port The first time the dongle is connected to the PC the new HW will be detected and the wizard will appear and ask to install the necessary software The required inf file will be installed when installing the PC application Please follow the guidelines in this section bas...

Page 6: ...op 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 4 ...

Page 7: ...This dialog will be shown when everything has been successfully installed Click Finish to close the wizard 5 ...

Page 8: ...gle 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 6 ...

Page 9: ...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 7 ...

Page 10: ...ce 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 Below is a screenshot showing a ZigBee Coordinator Router and End Device where the Coordinator is operating as a data Sink and all remaining devices are operating as data Sources 8 ...

Page 11: ...Figure 1 Screenshot of the eZ430 RF2480 Sensor Monitor 9 ...

Page 12: ...button and the Stop capture button will be enabled If more than one device with the applicable COM port is connected to the PC it could be that wrong COM port gets selected In this case the first port in the list will be selected If this was not the intended device to connect to the appropriate COM port must be selected manually Using the Stop capture button will cause the nodes on display to be r...

Page 13: ...tton 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 11 ...

Page 14: ...utline A combined router and source node in the network The short address temperature voltage and a timestamp is shown within the node The timestamp is from the last message received from the node The node will blink each time a message is received by the connected Sink node A dummy router If we don t receive any message from a router within the configured time interval it can be assumed that the ...

Page 15: ...he mouse pointer Scroll bars The Horizontal and Vertical scroll bars can be used to navigate the network If the Network view is zoomed out far enough to make the outline of the rectangular background visible the scroll bar will disappear Moving a Node The nodes can be moved around with the mouse To move a node click and hold the left mouse button while pointing to the node Hold the left mouse butt...

Page 16: ...ted and Capture data is active the capture of data could get deactivated In this case the Capture must be re activated manually 5 5 USB dongle not automatically detected when connected If the eZ430 RF2480 dongle is not automatically detected try to remove the dongle and to connect it again The system could be a bit slow on handling the detection of the dongle being attached or unattached so don t ...

Page 17: ... 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 15 ...

Page 18: ... 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 aspx FamilyID 32bc1bee a3f9 4c13 9c99 220b62a191ee displaylang en 16 ...

Page 19: ...6 Document History Revision Date Description Changes swru157 08 03 2008 Initial release 17 ...

Page 20: ...ss practice TI is not responsible or liable for any such statements TI products are not authorized for use in safety critical applications such as life support where a failure of the TI product would reasonably be expected to cause severe personal injury or death unless officers of the parties have executed an agreement specifically governing such use Buyers represent that they have all necessary ...

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