I have a MDEK1001 kit and I am trying to understand how to get the code examples working. I may be asking basic questions, but I am a newbee in this. I am starting with the dwm_simple example. I have followed the Firmware user guide steps and I get no error, but I don’t see how the code gets running. I have introduced some marks (printf(“1”) but I am not seeing them.
I have an open terminal with minicom but I don’t see them there nor in the eclipse console. I am just seeing the normal interface with the dwm> prompt.
I have also tried to compile and load the code with the “make compile_load” command available in the command line. Whenever I run it I don`t see the messages I try to show with printf. Where are these traces sent?
The other question I have, this dwm_simple includes all the factory software that is loaded in a recovery process?
I guess I am missunderstanding something but I can not get much further.
I have tried in that function and in dwm_user_start. The problem is that I cannot see even the MSG_INIT banner (dwn-simple\n…). I am only seeing the normal prompt dwm with the standard message (“DWM1001 TWR Real Time Location System…”).
As I said, I may be missunderstanding something, but if I compile and load the dwm-simple code I can see it is working as expected (I can disable BLE), but I cannot see the the printf messages. Where is it supposed to be sending the standrad output? to the minicom terminal?
This is normal operation.
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[color=#333333]But afterward,[/color][color=#333333] I realize that[/color][color=#ff3333] the printf message only be displayed in shell mode…[/color]
Also, the default setting of the UART is generic mode once the DWM1001 power on.
Therefore, we will not see any printf message at the beginning as they are blocked.
The only thing we can do is waiting Decawave to provide us an API that can configure the UART to shell mode at the startup.
I feel like I might be having a similar problem. It appears to be running, but I’m getting no output. Can you clarify what you mean by “shell mode”? Is this a view or perspective in Eclipse? I don’t see such an option and Google doesn’t seem to know anything about eclipse “shell mode”. Thanks.
“Shell mode” is the internal naming definition for decawave in their firmware
There are 2 UART mode defined on the DWM1001: “Generic mode” and “Shell mode”.
In “Generic mode”, you just can have hex code command.All the data in UART will be assumed as TLV code command.
In “Shell mode”,you can have string command.All the data in UART will be assumed as as character code command.
For the details, you can refer to the DWM1001 Firmware API Guide Ch2.7.
I’m not sure I understand your response. Since shell mode relies on the UART interface, are you saying it can’t be used through the USB Segger J-link connection in conjunction with Eclipse? It isn’t clear from ch 2.7 of the API guide how any of this works with Eclipse via the J-link.
Is the problem that I’m using a Segger j-link instead of a DWM1001-DEV board? The firmware guide describes initiating shell mode as shown in Fig. 4 but that figure utilizes the DEV board and accesses the DW through /dev/ttyACM0, which I don’t see on Linux under /dev/, presumably because I’m connecting with the j-link device instead of the DEV board. Can I use UART (and shell mode and stdout debugging) with j-link, or only with the DEV board so that it will appear as ttyACM0?
but I am not seeing them.