Thread demo with BMD-340 Rigado and FRDM-KW41Z NXP

[kA_nard]

Hi everyone,

right now I have two different kinds of Evaluation Kit: two FRDM-KW41Z from NXP with Thread Demo which can be found with this link: 

https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-based-processors-and-mcus/kinetis-cortex-m-mcus/w-serieswireless-conn.m0-plus-m4/freedom-development-kit-for-kinetis-kw41z-31z-21z-mcus:FRDM-KW41Z?tab=In-Depth_Tab

two BMD-340 Evaluation Kit from Rigado, which I used the example with CLI, the refenrence can be found here: 

http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.thread_zigbee.v2.0.0%2Fthread_cli_example.html

both FRDM-KW41Z and BMD-340 works normal with two demo but I want to try if it's possible to connect all of them together using Thread. What I found quite interesting is that BMD-340 can find FRDM shield 's address.

Thanks for reading and hope you guys can give me some suggestions.

Best regards,

Viet

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Thread is a protocol that support operability between devices and vendors. Did you test the devices together? Are you facing any specific issues?

Best regards,
Jørgen

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

All routers in the network will keep a list/ table of other routers in the network at any time. You can view own list of a router/leader with CLI command router list/router table. Own children/end devices can be viewed using command child list/child table. Children of other devices can be polled using command networkdiagnostic.

[kA_nard]

Okay, I understood about the router and child table thing. In which c file in each project can I change the values about networkname? The default name is OpenThread I assumed. There is a guide , to change the networkname with "dataset networkname ****" However it didn't work with Teraterm. So I want to change it manually with the code. 

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

You can use the function otThreadSetNetworkName() to set a network name in the application.

[kA_nard]

Is there any way to change manually the IP address? For example, I have already a Thread network with a mesh prefix and IID. And I want to change the IP address of the BMD-340 according to the IP of the Thread network. 

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you want to change the IP of a device that has already joined the network? In that case it should have been assigned correct IP addresses when it was commissioned. You cannot "change the IP" in order to join an existing network.