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RIOT integration into IoT-LAB
Check the Wiki to see how to build and run RIOT on FIT IoT-LAB: https://github.com/iot-lab/iot-lab/wiki/Riot-support
Control IoT-LAB via Make
Requirements
This feature requires to have a valid account for the FIT IoT-LAB (registration there is open for everyone) and the iot-lab/cli-tools to be installed.
Description
The folder dist/testbed-support/
contains a Makefile.iotlab
that defines
some targets to control RIOT experiments on IoT-LAB using the GNU Make build
system. In order to use this, one has to include this Makefile at the end of
the application's Makefile, like this:
include $(RIOTBASE)/dist/testbed-support/Makefile.iotlab
Variables
This Makefile introduces some additional variables (default values in brackets):
- IOTLAB_NODES (5)
- IOTLAB_DURATION (30 minutes)
- IOTLAB_SITE (grenoble.iot-lab.info)
- IOTLAB_TYPE (m3:at86rf231)
- IOTLAB_AUTH ($HOME/.iotlabrc)
- IOTLAB_USER (taken from $IOTLAB_AUTH)
- IOTLAB_EXP_ID (taken from first experiment in running state)
- IOTLAB_EXP_NAME (RIOT_EXP)
- IOTLAB_PHY_NODES
- IOTLAB_PROFILE
- IOTLAB_EXCLUDE_NODES
- IOTLAB_LOGGING
- IOTLAB_TMUX
Format of a Resource ID
Both variables IOTLAB_PHY_NODES
and IOTLAB_EXCLUDE_NODES
use the resource id
string format as specified in the output of iotlab-experiment submit --help
.
An example would be: 1-3+7+10-13
Targets
It defines the following targets:
- iotlab-exp
- iotlab-flash
- iotlab-reset
- iotlab-term
Please note: All targets that require an already running experiment will
use the first experiment of the user that has already entered state "Running"
if IOTLAB_EXP_ID
is not set.
iotlab-exp
This schedules a new experiment on the FIT IoT-LAB and waits until it enters
"Running" state. It will request IOTLAB_NODES
nodes of type IOTLAB_TYPE
for IOTLAB_DURATION
minutes at site IOTLAB_SITE
using IOTLAB_PROFILE
(if provided). With IOTLAB_PHY_NODES
it is possible to choose specific nodes
for this experiment by using the resource id string format as described above.
Note that the usage of IOTLAB_PHY_NODES
ignores IOTLAB_NODES
. It will also flash the
binary of the current application to all registered nodes. The name of the
experiment is set to "RIOT_EXP" or "RIOT_EXP_$(IOTLAB_EXP_NAME)"
if IOTLAB_EXP_NAME
is defined.
If IOTLAB_LOGGING
is set to 1
, then the output of all nodes will be logged on the server
into a file called "RIOT_LOG--".
iotlab-flash
This target updates the application on all registered nodes of the given
experiment to the current version of the application.
Certain nodes can be excluded by listing them in the IOTLAB_EXCLUDE_NODES
variable
using the resource id string format as described above.
iotlab-reset
This target resets all registered nodes of the given experiment.
Certain nodes can be excluded by listing them in the IOTLAB_EXCLUDE_NODES
variable
using the resource id string format as described above.
iotlab-term
Uses ssh to login the user on the IoT-LAB server of the specified site and
start the serial_aggregator
to communication with all registered nodes.
If IOTLAB_LOGGING
is set to 1
, then closing the connection with CTRL+C/D
will also quit
the logging process. If you enabled TMUX with IOTLAB_TMUX
, detach from the
server-side tmux process with CTRL+A-D
(or as defined in your server-side
.tmux.conf
file)