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CCS/MSP432P401R: does this stuff work on macos?

Steve Ravet
Prodigy 40 points

Part Number: MSP432P401R
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC2650MODA, CC2650

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

I just got my MSP432P401R and BoostXL-cc2650 in the mail.  I'm hoping to see this show up as a bluetooth device on my Mac or phone but no luck so far.  The only thing that works is that the RGB LED demo starts to run when I plug the board in.

I followed links to the MSP432 simple link SDK and downloaded it.  It looks like it has the RGB out-of-box app in it, but it doesn't run.  Says it can't open it.

I downloaded CCS and found the resource explorer, and from there the cc2650moda boosterpack item.  In the "out of box demo" for the CC2650, in the ccs GUI, it shows how to plug the MSP432 and the CC2650 together, to connect the USB cable, and "click the button below" to flash with "Project zero".  There's no button to press.

I found the same demo on dev.ti.com, where there is a button to press.  I pressed it, followed the instructions for installing the extensions, and restarted the browser.  Clicked the button again and a green status bar crawled across the screen but no change to the MSP432, it's still running the built-in RGB LED demo.  No blinking green LED, and the MSP432 doesn't show up in the SimpleLink app on my phone.

I'd rather do this locally on my machine than using the cloud tools so I followed the instructions at the end, "Developing on the CC2650MODA".  Step one is to download the bluetooth low energy stack which is a .exe file.  My mac obviously isn't going to do anything with that.

It seems like it should be straightforward but I'm obviously missing something.  How can I get demo BLE source into CCS on my Mac, and from there built and flashed onto the MSP, so I can see it from my phone or Mac?

thanks,

--steve

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    TI__Guru 69951 points
    Is this the project zero you are referring to?
    dev.ti.com/.../

    The simpleLink academy also provides a walk through. dev.ti.com/.../

    It sounds like you have already installed CCS locally on your machine. When installing the SDK please select the MacOS installer.
    www.ti.com/.../SIMPLELINK-MSP432-SDK

    www.ti.com/.../SIMPLELINK-SDK-BLUETOOTH-PLUGIN

    Let me know if you are still unable to get the example installed and running.

    Chris
  • 0 in reply to Chris Sterzik
    Prodigy 40 points

    Hi Chris, I did use the macos version of the installer for CCS and the SDK.  I still cannot find the local out of box example for the RGB LED, and the online version never ran, it just said "connecting".

    With more browsing of the online development environment I found the project zero example and downloaded it (same as the one at your link).  The tirtos version built and ran, and I was able to interact with it using the BLE explorer app on my phone.

    So finally, everything was good.  In the end I don't need the out-of-box example for the MSP baseboard, and I don't plan to use the online development environment so it doesn't matter that the Safari plugin stuff doesn't seem to work.  And, I have no idea what is in the Bluetooth .exe thing that it told me to download, but it doesn't seem to matter at this point.  But they still seem broken.

    If you want to follow up on the out-of-box example or the Safari plugin, I'll help debug.  Otherwise you can mark this closed.

    thanks,

    --steve

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