Read serial port from micaz

Question

I would like to know if there is a mean to read in a terminal outputs generated by a MicaZ (printf), I tried the command: make login but it doesn't work.

I think that the is no rule login in micaz makefile.

Answer 1

Try command:

sudo cat /dev/ttyUSB1  

Before doing this, check that your Micaz is connected through ttyUSB1. You can check it using command:

ls /dev

If ttyUSB1 is in the list above, it will work.

Answer 2

As far as I remember the MIB510 board, used to program the MicaZ, has two serial ports. One for ISP and the other as a serial console. You might also want to use minicom to be able to fully interact with the serial console. On ubuntu you can install it with sudo apt-get install minicom and is run with minicom -8 -b9600 -D/dev/ttyUSB1 set the baudrate according to your setup. Here you can find an introduction to minicom.

Good luck!