Lab Part 2

Using RIOT with the IoT-Hardware-Kit

The following guide shows how to use RIOT on real IoT hardware, i.e., build application for specific board, flash and run it. It also shows how to connect the Raspberry Pi with your PC, laptop or workstation. Note: the IoT hardware kit provided for the VS Lab4 exercise has all requirements installed, please use the Rasperry Pi.

Building, flashing and running on an IoT node

The application will run on most boards supported by RIOT, if available it reads temperature values from a HDC1000 sensor. This sensor is available on the PhyTec PhyWave (RIOT board name pba-d-01-kw2x), also see the RIOT-Wiki.

• Compile the application on this board (or replace BOARD=<name>) as follows:

BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1 BOARD=pba-d-01-kw2x make clean all

• flash application onto the board:

BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1 BOARD=pba-d-01-kw2x make flash

• to get access to any (debug) output printed by the RIOT application, start a terminal connection over USB, by executing:

BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1 BOARD=pba-d-01-kw2x make term

if the terminal connection fails:

• check requirements, i.e., python and the python package pyserial are installed
• explicitly set which terminal to use, look for /dev/tty.usb<something> or similar, then run PORT=/dev/tty.usb<something> BOARD=pba-d-01-kw2x make term.