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Oguzhan Cetinbas
Oguzhan Cetinbas

Reputation: 1

Contiki-ng Periodic radion on off

I want to change the radio duty cycle. The radio always stays on and affects energy consumption. I want it to work in a way that it will stay off for 10 seconds and stay on for 10 seconds, how and where should I do this?

I want to change the radio duty cycle. The radio always stays on and affects energy consumption. I want it to work in a way that it will stay off for 10 seconds and stay on for 10 seconds, how and where should I do this

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Answers (1)

AleMarquis
AleMarquis

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Since you put Contiki-NG in your tags i assume you are working with Contiki-NG, not Contiki-OS.

First with the where: You want to do this function in your C code that is compiled into the Hardware Platform.

Then with how: You can turn on or off the radio using NETSTACK_RADIO directive. You can include the directive with the netstack.h in the Contiki OS files.

#include "net/netstack.h"

With NETSTACK_RADIO you can call this two functions, to turn on and off the radio. You can learn more about Contiki's radio configs in the Radio Documentation

NETSTACK_RADIO.on(); // Turn the radio on 
NETSTACK_RADIO.off(); // Turn the radio off

You can configure a 10 second timer using the etimer_set function. To do this I recommend using the RPL-udp example timer implementation as a starting point

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