Installing TinyOS

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This page details how to get TinyOS installed and running on your system. It is organized into two main sections: Officially Supported Methods, User Contributed Methods. The current instructions are for installing TinyOS version 2.1.1. A separate page has instructions for versions 2.1 and 2.0.2. At the bottom of the page are some links to additional information addressing some common problems encountered during the installation procedure as well as information on how to get additional platforms up and running.

What to Read First

Installing TinyOS 2.1.1

TinyOS has numerous improvements to TinyOS 2.1. Its features include:

  • Support for the epic, mulle, and shimmer2 platforms,
  • Support for 6lowpan, an IPv6 networking layer within the mote network,
  • Support for simple, uniform low-power networking across many protocols,
  • Improvements to many existing services and protocols, including the inclusion of a new dissemination protocol (DHV), improvements to CTP, improved TOSThreads documentation, and numerous bug fixes

More information can be found in the release notes.

Officially Supported Methods

User Contributed Methods

Other Methods


Next Step

Once installed, find out how to finish setting up and doing your first build in the tutorial Getting Started with TinyOS.

You might also want to install editors like NESCDT or Yeti.


Additional Information


Installing the latest TinyOS