CC3200 Launchpad Exosite Cloud Demo trouble making it work

Hi Petru,

     Thanks for your reply.

     Based from what I have read in the docs, It is not recommended to format my CC3200 launchpad as my CC3200 is pre-production. I will seek other advice regarding formatting CC3200 launchpad.

     As recommended at the link, I only selected Erase to do a complete erase on all items on the list. But, still got the same results. I will try Erase, Update, Verify.

- kel

Hi Glenn,

     I will format my CC3200 launchpad with Secure, and Alert check boxes "unchecked" and selecting "1 MB" as capacity.

     From the datasheet the serial flash size is 8 Mega bits so that is equivalent to 1 Mega Byte.

- kel

Yes, all sounds good....those are the settings I select to format.

Glenn.

Markel Robregado said:

But, after that I am unable to see my CC3200 launchpad at my smartphone. Anyway, at least I have connected to the Exosite Cloud Server.

This would be likely due to the registering/unregistering of a mDNS service. Perhaps this is not included with the Exosite example.

Glenn.

There are total 60 CC3200 launchpad currently connected at Exosite Cloud Server. I will be testing this connection for long hours and see if it fails. That is me at Makati City, Philippines.

- kel

Hello again,

When you install  exosite on  your CC3200  the   device is in  the STATION MODE  and is not  visible on  your  phone.

The  CC3200  must  be in  ACCESS POINT MODE   then connect  your phone  to the  device  and  point your browser phone to CC3200 http://mysimplelink.net  if  you  don't  change the  address form the  interface

It force it into AP mode, hold SW3 and tap RESET and wait about 5 seconds, you should now see the access point.  

Thank you 

Petru and Glenn are correct that that demo does not do any mDNS setup and in fact doesn't serve anything at all when it's in STA mode, only when in AP mode.

Also, for your long term test, I can promise that it will fail, probably somewhere around 24 hours. There are still a few bugs in that code. We're not actually sure what's causing it, but we think it has something to do with the i2c code.

If anyone does some investigating into the issues, we do accept pull requests. :) https://github.com/exosite-garage/CC3200CloudDemo/ At this point, I'm not sure when I'll have more time to look at that code again.

-- Patrick @ Exosite

Hi All,

    I wanted to try the Exosite Cloud Demo Program again. But, I got the same error again and unable to load Exosite Cloud Demo program. See, bleow.

[12:14:36] INFO: erase file completed
[12:14:36] INFO: > Size of file = 177624
[12:14:36] INFO: > Update File: /sys/mcuimg.bin
[12:14:36] INFO: Downloading file "/sys/mcuimg.bin" with size 177624
[12:14:36] ERROR: Open operation failed
[12:14:36] INFO: > Executing Operation: Disconnect
[12:14:36] Operation Program returned.

   I have been using the CC3200 launchpad before this error with other example programs. What could be causing this error? I don't think it is right to format the serial flash again to make the Exosite Cloud Demo Progam to work for CC3200 Launchpad. As mentioned by a TI Engineer there is only the need to format the serial flash once.

- kel

Hi,

   After formatting again, I got an error message at Tera Term and at Exosite Dashboard the CC3200 Launchpad is "OFFLINE".

   "Exosite: Failed to Activate (Re-Enable or Add to Account)"

   I followed again the Exosite Guide., am I doing something wrong? So, I guess I need to make a new device

@Patrick

    As you have mentioned that the long time test will fail, this also happens at the Exosite Cloud Demo Program for Tiva Connected Launchpad. Here are the posts below. Maybe this bugs mentioned in the posts below is related to the bugs at Exosite Cloud Demo for CC3200 Launchpad.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/tiva_arm/f/908/t/358842.aspx

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/tiva_arm/f/908/t/332931.aspx

- kel

Hi,

    After re-enabling account for CC3200 Launchpad at Exosite, I was able to connect my CC3200 Launchpad to Exosite. 

- kel

If anyone else is seeing this error, it means that the device is trying to provision itself in our provisioning system, but the system isn't expecting it to, either it doesn't know about that device (you haven't added it to your ti.exosite.com account or you used to the wrong MAC address) or it's already been activated (you probably formatted the flash and deleted the cik, in that case you need to click on the device from the devices page and do a "re-enable").

I know about the CLP issues, I've actually posted there a few times. These two demos actually use two completely different code bases so it's doubtful that the issues are related. TI did all the FW development on the CLP so I think the fixes that they are working on will come with the next SDK release. (Don't quote me on that, I could be wrong, wait for an official answer from TI.)

--Patrick@Exosite

Patrick Barrett said:

(you probably formatted the flash and deleted the cik, in that case you need to click on the device from the devices page and do a "re-enable").

I did format the serial flash several days ago.

But this error below, is another issue, as I would need to format the serial flash again to load the Exosite Cloud Demo Program. As mentioned by a TI engineer, there is no need to format the serial flash more than once.

[12:14:36] INFO: Downloading file "/sys/mcuimg.bin" with size 177624
[12:14:36] ERROR: Open operation failed

- kel

Yep, you're correct. I was only talking about the "Failed to Activate" error.

@Patrick,

    I tried the Exosite Cloud Demo Example Program again and got the same error. I format the Serial Flash and tried to load the Cloud Demo Example Program again and got the same errors. I tied the same steps several times and I get the same error. I give up now trying. This does not happen to other example programs that I have tried.

    This problem does not affect me as I am not working with any IOT product development using CC3200 launchpad. But, other people must be disapointed about this, if they want to use the Exosite Cloud Demo Example Program as base for their product development.

- kel

@Patrick,

    I take back what I just replied earlier. I got confused with error message at Uniflash. I am always getting this error message. Even with this error message the Exosite Cloud Demo Example Program was loaded successfully at CC3200 Launchpad. I just thought the binary was not loaded.

Binary still loaded Uniflash log:

[18:53:33] INFO: > Updated Token value: 0x0
[18:53:33] INFO: > File name: /cert/ca.pem, Update: true, Erase: true
[18:53:33] INFO: > Erase File: /cert/ca.pem
[18:53:33] INFO: erasing file "/cert/ca.pem"
[18:53:33] INFO: deleting file "/cert/ca.pem"
[18:53:34] INFO: erase file completed
[18:53:34] FATAL: > File "location on local machine" does not exist on local File System
[18:53:34] INFO: > Executing Operation: Disconnect
[18:53:34] Operation Program returned.

Failed Binary Uniflash Error: (with this error need to format Serial Flash)

[19:39:24] INFO: erase file completed
[19:39:24] INFO: > Size of file = 177624
[19:39:24] INFO: > Update File: /sys/mcuimg.bin
[19:39:24] INFO: Downloading file "/sys/mcuimg.bin" with size 177624
[19:39:24] ERROR: Open operation failed
[19:39:24] INFO: > Executing Operation: Disconnect
[19:39:24] Operation Program returned.

- kel

Markel Robregado said:

[18:53:33] INFO: erasing file "/cert/ca.pem"
[18:53:33] INFO: deleting file "/cert/ca.pem"
[18:53:34] INFO: erase file completed
[18:53:34] FATAL: > File "location on local machine" does not exist on local File System
[18:53:34] INFO: > Executing Operation: Disconnect
[18:53:34] Operation Program returned.

@Glenn.

    Regarding this error above, as recommended by Shlomi from the post below, is to leave the "update" and "erase" option unchecked for that file.

Uniflash Error Messages Guide?

- kel

Hi,

I am working on cc3200 for one application. I have successfully completed my application that involves a temperature sensor and a GPS. Now I can able to see the temperature data and GPS location in mobile using cc3200 wifi.

But now I want to connect the cc3200 device to internet, so that I can directly see the data through internet. I found TI has got an Exosite cloud. So can anyone please suggest me how to connect cc3200 to exosite.

I have added my cc3200 device in exosite. Only thing left is I couldn't understand how to transfer the data from cc3200 to exosite. If anyone has already worked on similar applications, please give your valuable idea, so that it will be very helpful to me.

Thanks in advance