How to blink a LED on OpenMote B Board

Learn how to program an openmote b board with this basic blink test
February 8, 2022 by
How to blink a LED on OpenMote B Board
Boot & Work Corp. S.L., Fernandez Queralt Martinez

Introduction

OpenMote B is an Ultra Low-power board to develop IoT applications in the industrial space. It is the reference for the IETF 6TiSCG Working Group and is supported by the most relevant Open Source 6TiSCG implementation including the Contiki NG and OpenWSN projects. 

In this post, we will learn how to blink the on-board LED from the Openmote B board!

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Requirements

Plug the Openmote B

To start programming our OpenMote B board, we are going to plug the board into the USB of our laptop.
*Batteries and antennas not needed.
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Openmote B - How to blink a LED on OpenMote B Board

Test the code

1. Now, click on the latest openmote-fw.tar.bz2 from our repository >>>

Repository Openmote - How to blink a LED on OpenMote B Board

2. Once downloaded, untar the package.

tar -xvf openmote-fw.tar.bz2


3. Go to the directory

cd openmote-fw/


4. Make the template and see how the on-board LED from the openmote B starts blinking!

make template

You can check the code in: ~/openmote-fw/projects/template/src/main.cpp

Openmote B LED colors


In the prvGreenLedTask function, you can see that the leds blink like:

 led_green.off() and led_green.on()

If you just want to change the colors, you can do it with red, orange, yellow and green. And this is where they will be shown on the board.

Openmote B LED colors - How to blink a LED on OpenMote B Board

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How to blink a LED on OpenMote B Board
Boot & Work Corp. S.L., Fernandez Queralt Martinez February 8, 2022

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