To just get a feeling of how the technology works, OpenThread is one way of discovering 15.4 and it's Thread standard. One can use various dev boards to run OpenThread, such as Zolertia's RE-Mote or TI's CC2538 dev kit. Alternatively, there are also very good kits from SiLabs, NXP (Freescale) and Dialog (check OpenThread Sandbox Development Platform). >From a Linux perspective, it might be worth playing with OpenThread and wpantund, a user-space 15.4 driver that talks to 15.4 radio chip over UART or SPI. In this setup, one could flash 15.4 with OpenThread and run wpantund on a Linux host to create a Thread network gateway, which typically is used by low-power 15.4 only devices to get outside of the Thread network. Best, Marcin On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > On 28.07.2016 19:40, Don Zickus wrote: >> Hi Alexander, >> >> I was wondering what boards/chips folks like yourself use to develop/test >> the 802.15.4 work? I noticed the website http://wpan.cakelab.org/ mentions >> a bunch of boards. Some of those pointers don't work and the ones that do, >> show standalone boards that need to be wired up to a SPI bus. >> >> I assume the SPI bus is easily found on a rPI-like board. Is it difficult to >> hook one of them up to an x86 desktop? > > You might be able to do this with some USB dongle exposing some GPIOs to > to the kernel but I never used anything like that. Most of my > transceivers are connected to Pi's. So it goes down to embedded. > > I'm in the lucky position though to have two ATUSB dongles which are > simple USB dongles and get connected to your x86 systems with ease. > They work out of the box in mainline since 4.1 and the firmware is open > source as well. The problem right now is that it is now longer being sold. > > We are working on changing this though. See my mail from a few minutes > ago to this list about interest for a new ATUSB production batch. > Right now we would estimate them being on sale again sometime in October > (the smaller fabs we are using for SMT is on holiday and we also need to > prepare things in our spare time). > > If this is to far away, fair enough. If it does not really matter to you > and you would have an interest to use them please let me know so I can > better estimate the needed number of devices for the batch. > > regards > Stefan Schmidt > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
