Test Downstream Data

The DustLink apps that you can create (see Visualize Data With DustLink) has currently not implemented support for sending downstream messages to motes (although you might have noticed the "Fields toMote" that implies that its support is in the pipline). As an alternative, we present two simple ways to test sending downstream data to a mote. Both of these use tools part of the SmartMesh SDK, so the first thing you will have to do is to fetch this:

• If you are on Windows, the simplest way to do this is to download and unzip the latest executables from the SmartMesh SDK Release page on GitHub (look for SmartMeshSDK-X.X.X.X-win.zip).
• Otherwise, you will have to download and compile/run the Python source code directly. This has several library requirements, so it could be smart to have a look at these dustcloud installation instructions.

9.1 SimpleIPDownstreamMgr

SimpleIPDownstreamMgr is a simple console application that only asks you to specify the name of the port that the serial API of the manager is connected to (e.g. COM15). It will then connect to said manager, fetch a list of all operational motes connected to the network and start sending "Hello, World!" to each of them every 5 seconds, addressed to port 60000. The SimplePublish example application is set to listen to the same port, and should be able to parse and print the message.

9.2 APIExplorer

APIExplorer is a GUI that allows you to interact with the full API of all SmartMesh devices. The interesting API command here is sendData:

1. Set network type to SmartMesh IP, device type to manager and press load.
2. Enter the port name that the serial API of the manager is connected to (e.g. COM15) and press connect.
3. Select sendData from the command drop down list
4. Enter the necessary fields (options has to be 0) and press send.