Energia MT: Monitor example gives obscure output

[armsp]

I am using the MSP432 EMT RED Board on Windows 10 with the latest version of Energia. I just ran the Monitor example in Multitasking and it gave me the following output on the serial monitor -

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and so on and on...... I believe this isn't supposed to happen. Any information on how to resolve it and to show the correct stats.

NOTE: As mentioned in the sketch i set the baud rate at 9600 so i don't think incorrect baud rate is the issue.

Also, since this is a fairly complex sketch, i wanted to know where do i look to understand it fully. I can't seem to find a proper documentation for all the functions used and libraries used in the sketch. Please guide me in the right direction.

Thankyou

[rei-vilo]

• Try against the non-red LaunchPad w/ MSP432 EMT (48 MHZ) with boards package Energia MSP432 boards 3.8.1.

• Find useful information and pointers at LaunchPad MSP432: RTOS for Everyone and Exploring RTOS with Galaxia on Energia MT.

[armsp]

Since my Launchpad is actually a RED colored one, shouldn't i be using the option that i have already been using? Try against the non-red LaunchPad w/ MSP432 EMT (48 MHZ) with boards package Energia MSP432 boards 3.8.1. Sadly that doesn't work either. I get an exit status 1. Following is what gets displayed -

Energia: 1.6.10E18 (Windows 10), Board: "LaunchPad w/ msp432 EMT (48MHz)"

Build options changed, rebuilding all C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Energia15\packages\energia\hardware\msp432\3.8.0\cores\msp432\ti\runtime\wiring\random.c:83:6: error: conflicting types for 'srandom'

void srandom(unsigned long seed)

  ^~~~~~~

In file included from c:\users\dell\appdata\local\energia15\packages\energia\tools\arm-none-eabi-gcc\6.3.1-20170620\arm-none-eabi\include\stdlib.h:11:0,

             from C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Energia15\packages\energia\hardware\msp432\3.8.0\cores\msp432\ti\runtime\wiring\random.c:42:

c:\users\dell\appdata\local\energia15\packages\energia\tools\arm-none-eabi-gcc\6.3.1-20170620\arm-none-eabi\include\stdlib.h:257:7: note: previous declaration of 'srandom' was here

_VOID _EXFUN(srandom,(unsigned));

   ^

exit status 1 Error compiling for board LaunchPad w/ msp432 EMT (48MHz)

[robertinant]

There are 2 options to fix this.

1. In mon_setup() call Serial.begin(115200, true); instead of Serial.begin(115200); This will put the Serial port in blocking read mode.
2. On line 144 of the monitor Sketch just before Serial.read() and after while (true) put the following:

   if(!Serial.available()) {
   Task_yield();
   }

   It should then read:

   
   int escape_index = 0;

while (true) { if(!Serial.available()) { Task_yield(); continue; }

char c = Serial.read();

[rei-vilo]

@robertinant

Is the example going to be updated accordingly so the next release will include the fix?

[armsp]

@robertinant @rei-vilo i did as you mentioned, but then it just acts like an echo prorgram. According to the documentation here http://energia.nu/tag/energia-mt/ it should show some stats about CPU load- Monitor: This is an awesome utility Sketch that displays CPU utilization, task memory usage, etc. There are a couple of VT100 features in this sketch so best would be to use a VT100 terminal rather than the build in Serial monitor. For example, to continuously display the CPU load, type stats <space> <enter> and the CPU load will be updated in the terminal continuously.

But that doesn't happen. Currently i am getting the following output (after typing stats) -

Welcome! This is the Serial debug console.
> stats