Get and compile a Contiki-NG firmware

 

Difficulty: Medium

 Duration: 20 minutes

Prerequisites: Configure SSH Access

Description: Contiki-NG is a real-time operating system designed for the Internet of Things (IoT). The aim of this tutorial is to understand how to setup your environment and how to compile a Contiki-NG firmware. Note that Contiki-NG can be used with IoT-LAB M3 and A8-M3 boards and others like nRF52DK and Zolertia Firefly.

1. Setup your environment by cloning the iot-lab repository from GitHub

   ssh <login>@grenoble.iot-lab.info
   <login>@grenoble~$ git clone https://github.com/iot-lab/iot-lab.git
   Cloning into 'iot-lab'...
   ...
   <login>@grenoble~$ cd iot-lab
   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab$ make
   
     Welcome to the IoT-LAB development environment setup.
   
     targets:
   	setup-aggregation-tools
   	setup-cli-tools
   	setup-contiki
   	setup-iot-lab-contiki-ng
   	setup-iot-lab.wiki
   	setup-oml-plot-tools
   	setup-openlab
   	setup-riot
   	setup-wsn430
   	setup-zephyr
   
   
   	pull

2. Setup Contiki-NG target

   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab$ make setup-iot-lab-contiki-ng
   make setup-iot-lab-contiki-ng
   git clone https://github.com/iot-lab/iot-lab-contiki-ng.git parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng
   Clonage dans 'parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng'...
   ...
   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab$ cd parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng

3. Now that everything is in place, let’s build our first hello_world firmware.

   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab/parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng$ cd contiki-ng/examples/hello-world
   # For M3 nodes
   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab/parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng/contiki-ng/examples/hello-world$ ARCH_PATH=../../../arch make TARGET=iotlab BOARD=m3 savetarget
   # For A8-M3 nodes
   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab/parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng/contiki-ng/examples/hello-world$ ARCH_PATH=../../../arch make TARGET=iotlab BOARD=a8-m3 savetarget
   <login>@grenoble:~/iot-lab/parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng/contiki-ng/examples/hello-world$ ARCH_PATH=../../../arch make
   

 

• The generated firmware is located in the build/iotlab/m3/ directory (eg. build/iotlab/a8-m3/ for A8-M3 nodes):

  <login>@grenoble:~~/iot-lab/parts/iot-lab-contiki-ng/contiki-ng/examples/hello-world$ ls build/iotlab/m3/
   hello-world.iotlab
  

  Use the .iotlab file to flash the nodes using the IoT-LAB tools (webportal or cli-tools)

 

Congratulations, you have completed the tutorial!