Motorcycle Winter Monitor

RE: Motorcycle Winter Monitor

plauer — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 03:12:57 GMT

Waiting for the CC3120 board now. That one integrates with the MSP432 launchpad. Did not have much luck with FreeRTOS either so far. Once I have the CC3120 I will try the TI RTOS. That comes with only one install instead of two (one from TI and one from FreeRTOS).

Meanwhile I got a Honda Civic Hybrid, this car has two batteries, a 12V lead acid and a 144V NiH for the 15KW electric motor. More batteries to supervise...

RE: Motorcycle Winter Monitor

plauer — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:09:23 GMT

Update

so I got the kits, everything is there. To do my project I probably only need the MSP432 Launchpad plus the CC3100 board. Other solutions for wifi, like the ESP8266 have some IO on their own, that might be enough for the motor cycle monitor, no main processor needed at all, but not the CC3100, its serial communication only. Also there are no high level IOT commands available, like what as been added to Arduino, I need to put things together from scratch. All demos for this (lauchpad + CC3100) seem to need FreeRTOS.

Ok, I did download the Launchpad support packages, and also the full install of the code composer studio.

board connects and I can download compile and run software on the lauchpad, so far so good.

Not so much luck with the FreeRTOS. Somehow the Launchpad demos that use FreeRTOS do not find the source of FreeRTOS itself, complaining about the 'FREERTOS_INSTALL_DIR' not set. I downloaded FreeRTOS from the freertos.org web page, installed it on the hard drive and set the variable. Still nothing, maybe I set the variable in the wrong directory.

To my understanding all the demos that have interface software (SPI on the Lauchpad and code to run the CC3100 board) are using the FeeRTOS.

That's as far as I got.

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Peter

RE: Motorcycle Winter Monitor

DAB — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:30:05 GMT

You can also use the same equipment to support people powered bicycles, so you can do double duty with the same design.

DAB

RE: Motorcycle Winter Monitor

Jan Cumps — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:07:23 GMT

The 432 boards come with an RTOS.

You can choose.
There's TI-RTOS. If you have experience with FreeRTOS, you can check out the portable example from the SimpleLink MSP432 SDK (I haven't tried that one on the MSP432 yet).

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And you can program the MSP432 CPU bare metal. There are examples that use the MSP432 DriverLib and ones that go to the Registry Level available in that same software package.

You can download SimpleLink MSP432 SDK from Code Composer Studio:

Select View -> Resource Explorer.

Then press the download button on the option SimpleLink MSP432 SDK

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RE: Motorcycle Winter Monitor

jkutzsch — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:45:33 GMT

Having multiple friends who are quite taken with their motorcycles I could see many of them being interested in this. Add in a camera so they can remotely view their pride and joy and they would be constantly connected. :-)