def open_comms(COM_PORT):
try:
# create a Serial Connection with the specified COM Port, default baud rate of 921600
connection = mscl.Connection.Serial(COM_PORT)
# create a BaseStation with the connection
baseStation = mscl.BaseStation(connection)
if not baseStation.ping():
print("Failed to ping the Base Station")
else:
print("Base Station is active")
print("Attempting to enable the beacon...")
# enable the beacon on the Base Station using the PC time
startTime = baseStation.enableBeacon()
print("Successfully enabled the beacon on the Base Station")
print("Beacon's initial Timestamp:", startTime)
print("Beacon is active")
print("Sleeping for 3 seconds...")
sleep(3)
baseStation.disableBeacon()
# if we got here, no exception was thrown, so disableBeacon was successful
print("Successfully disabled the beacon on the Base Station")
return connection, baseStation
except Exception as e:
print("Error: ", e)
print('Check that ' + COM_PORT +
' is not in use and nodes are not connect to Sensor Connect')
close_comms(connection)
# import the mscl library
import sys
sys.path.append("../../dependencies/Python")
import mscl
# TODO: change these constants to match your setup
COM_PORT = "COM3"
NODE_ADDRESS = 31849
try:
# create a Serial Connection with the specified COM Port, default baud rate of 921600
connection = mscl.Connection.Serial(COM_PORT)
# create a BaseStation with the connection
baseStation = mscl.BaseStation(connection)
# create a WirelessNode with the BaseStation we created
node = mscl.WirelessNode(NODE_ADDRESS, baseStation)
# call the set to idle function and get the resulting SetToIdleStatus object
status = node.setToIdle()
print "Setting Node to Idle",
# using the SetToIdleStatus object, check if the Set to Idle operation is complete.
# Note: we are specifying a timeout of 300 milliseconds here which is the maximum
# amount of time that the complete function will block if the Set to Idle
# operation has not finished. Leaving this blank defaults to a timeout of 10ms.
while not status.complete(300):
# Note: the Set to Idle operation can be canceled by calling status.cancel()
def connectToBaseStation(com_port, baud_rate):
conn = mscl.Connection.Serial(com_port, int(baud_rate))
bs = mscl.BaseStation(conn)
print("Connect base station: " + com_port + " " + baud_rate)
return bs
