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wpantund Installation Guide

This document describes the process of building and installing wpantund on both Ubuntu and OS X. Installation on other platforms may be possible, but are left as an excercise for the reader. This document assumes that you are at least casually familiar with Autoconf. It also assumes that you have already gotten a copy of the wpantund sources, extracted them, and are wondering what to do next.

Installing wpantund on Ubuntu

1. Install Dependencies

Open up a terminal and perform the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

# Install runtine-dependent packages (libreadline is optional)
sudo apt-get install dbus libreadline

# Install build-dependent packages (libreadline-dev is optional)
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libdbus-1-dev libboost-dev libreadline-dev

2. Configure and build the project

2.1. Running the bootstrap script

Make sure that your repository is at origin/master.

git checkout origin/master

Then bootstrap the project by doing the following:

sudo apt-get install libtool autoconf autoconf-archive
./bootstrap.sh

2.2. Running the configure script

If the configure script is present, run it and then start the make process:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
make

This may take a while. You can speed up the process by adding the argument -j4 to the call to make, substituting the number 4 with the number of processor cores you have on your machine. This greatly improves the speed of builds.

Also, if additional debugging information is required or helpful from wpantund, add the argument --enable-debug to the ./configure line above.

3. Install wpantund

Once the build above is complete, execute the following command:

sudo make install

This will install wpantund onto your computer.

Installing wpantund on OS X

wpantund support on OS X is experimenatl.

Installing wpantund on OS X is largely similar to the process above, except things are complicated by the fact that we depend on D-Bus—and there is no native package manager for OS X. These instructions assume that you are using Homebrew as your package manager.

What is nice about homebrew is that we have a recipe to build wpantund for you. This makes installing wpantund on OS X as easy as:

brew update
brew install ./etc/wpantund.rb

# Start the D-Bus daemon
sudo cp "$(brew --prefix)"/Cellar/dbus/*/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

(the last two commands are for setting D-Bus up to launch properly at startup)

PRO-TIP: Use brew install wpantund --HEAD if you want the latest bleeding-edge version of wpantund!

However, if you want to build wpantund manually, the procedure described below allows you to manually set up the wpantund dependencies so that the build can run without a hitch.

1. Install Xcode

Go here and install Xcode if you haven't already.

After you have installed Xcode, you will need to install the Xcode command-line tools. You can do this easily from the command line with the following command:

xcode-select --install

2. Install Homebrew

Homebrew is a package management system for OS X. While it is possible to install wpantund's dependencies manually, using homebrew makes this process much easier. If you don't already have it installed on your Mac, you can install it to your home directory using the following instructions:

cd ~
mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew
mkdir ~/bin

Create the file ~/.bash_profile with the following contents (tweak to your preference if you know what you're doing):

# Global stuff
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export EDITOR=vi

# Homebrew stuff
export PATH=$HOME/homebrew/bin:$PATH

Then close and reopen your terminal window.

Alternatively, you can follow the instructions at http://brew.sh/, which installs to the prefix /usr/local instead of ~/homebrew.

2. Install and Setup wpantund dependencies

We need a few dependencies in order to be able to build and use wpantund. The following commands will get us up and running:

brew install pkg-config
brew install autoconf-archive
brew install libtool
brew install boost
brew install d-bus

# Start the D-Bus daemon
sudo cp "$(brew --prefix)"/Cellar/dbus/*/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

3. Configure and build

At this point, you can jump over to step 2 from the section Installing wpantund on Ubuntu, above.

Configuring and Using wpantund

1. Configuring wpantund

Now that you have wpantund installed, you will need to edit the configuration file to tell the daemon how to communicate with the NCP. You do this by editing the wpantund.conf file, which (if you followed the directions above) should now be at /etc/wpantund.conf.

This file is, by default, filled only with comments—which describe all of the important configuration options that you might need to set in order to make wpantund usable. Read them over and then uncomment and update the appropriate configuration properties.

Alternatively, you can specify any needed properties on the command line when invoking wpantund. At a minimum, at least NCPSocketName needs to be specified, which describes how wpantund is supposed to talk to the NCP.

Refer to the authorative documentation in /etc/wpantund.conf or ./src/wpantund/wpantund.conf for more information.

2. Start wpantund

To connect to an NCP on the serial port /dev/ttyUSB0, type the following into terminal:

sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpantund -o NCPSocketName /dev/ttyUSB0

To start wpan on more than one interface, you can specify the WPAN interface name. For example, to set wpan0 network interface on /dev/ttyUSB0 USB interface, and wpan1 on /dev/ttyUSB1, run:

sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpantund -o NCPSocketName /dev/ttyUSB0 -o WPANInterfaceName wpan0

and

sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpantund -o NCPSocketName /dev/ttyUSB1 -o WPANInterfaceName wpan1

Note that, unless you are running as root, you must use sudo when invoking wpantund directly.

On an embedded device, you would add the appropriate scripts or configuration files that would cause wpantund to be started at boot. Doing so should be pretty straightforward.

3. Using wpanctl

Now that you have wpantund running, you can now issue commands to the daemon using wpanctl from another window: (Again, unless you are running as root, you must use sudo)

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/wpanctl
wpanctl:wpan0> leave
Leaving current WPAN. . .
wpanctl:wpan0> setprop NetworkKey --data 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
wpanctl:wpan0> form "MyCoolNetwork" -c 26
Forming WPAN "MyCoolNetwork" as node type 2
Successfully formed!
wpanctl:wpan0> permit-join 3600 22
Permitting Joining on the current WPAN for 3600 seconds, commissioning traffic on TCP/UDP port 22. . .
wpanctl:wpan0> status
wpan0 => [
    "AssociationState" => "joined"
    "NetworkName" => "MyCoolNetwork"
    "XPanId" => 0xD6D8A04025AB3B0C
    "PanId" => 0xE3C3
    "Channel" => 26
    "Prefix" => [FDD6D8A040250000]
    "NCPVersion" => "OpenThread/1.0d26-25-gb684c7f; DEBUG; May 9 2016 18:22:04"
    "HWAddr" => [18B430000003F202]
]
wpanctl:wpan0>