Good to hear that you had found a solution. I think besides logging such
that you also could use the LED on the platform.
On Nov 2, 2013 3:25 PM, "Xiaohui Liu" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> By log I mean a serial message sent from a mote to a PC. I'm using telosb
> and T2.1.1. Log fails because of a bug in my code.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 1, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Eric Decker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Xiaohui Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Micha,
>>
>> How do you know if the timer fails to fire?
>>
>> I experienced the same problem before. Whenever the timer fires, a log is
>> sent to the UART. If no log is received when a timer is supposed to fire,
>> the timer is regarded to fail to fire. This turns out wrong because no log
>> can be also caused by UART failure, which is the case.
>>
>
> what is a "log"?
>
> What platform are you talking about and what version of the software?
>
>
>>
>> -Xiaohui
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, August 9, 2013, Ádám Erdélyi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Micha,
>>>
>>> could you show us the wiring code for the timer, how you initialize the
>>> timers and how you handle the firing event? Does it fire when started by
>>> other functions? (e.g. a simple Timer.start) Did you use the unique()
>>> function at the beginning?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adam
>>> On Aug 8, 2013 3:02 PM, "Micha Rappaport" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am using multiple instances of the TimerMilliC component on a telosB
>>>> mote. When I use the timer.startOneShot() command, the timer does not
>>>> always fire. I checked the timer.isRunning() command which returns TRUE!
>>>>
>>>> Next I checked the times now, t0 and dt which look all promising:
>>>> This works:
>>>> now: 13530, t0: 13529, dt: 2500
>>>> This does not:
>>>> now: 21513, to: 21512, dt: 2500
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas where else the problem could lie?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Micha
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>>
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