Connect TI Chronos Watch WIth Processing

ti_chronos_watch.pde

/*
 Get acceleration data from Chronos watch.
 Taken from info posted at: http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/msp43016-bit_ultra-low_power_mcus/f/166/t/32714.aspx

 Based off of the latest Python code on the Chronos wiki that I wrote.


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*/

import processing.serial.*;

//Take what we know about the packets for starting the access point
//and put it in its integer representation
int startAccessPointNum[] = {255, 7, 3};
//Take what we know about the packets for aquiring data from the chronos
//and put it in its integer representation
int accDataRequestNum[] = {255, 8, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0};

//Convert it all to bytes so that watch will understand
//what we're talking about..
byte startAccessPoint[] = byte(startAccessPointNum);
byte accDataRequest[] = byte(accDataRequestNum);


// We want to talk to the chronos...
Serial chronos;

//Hopefully, the port you're looking for is the same one
//as the chronos is assigned to. If not, change the
//"0" in Serial.list() to the appropriate value.
chronos = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 115200);

//Start the access point..
chronos.write(startAccessPoint);


//Until the port is still availible...
//Send data request to chronos.
chronos.write(accDataRequest);

//Processing doesn't like infinite loops...but we're going to do one anyway.
while (chronos.available() >= 0) {
    
    //Accelerometer data is 7 bytes long. This looks really lame, but it works.
    int[] buf = new int[7];  
    
    for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
      buf[i] = chronos.read();
    
    //Fourth byte indicates if there are coordinates. If the byte is 0xFF (255)
    //Then there is no data. If it is 1, then data is valid.
    //Sometimes the datatype comes back as other values...not sure if that
    //means anything or not.
    //Also, the Python version of this code ALWAYS returns 0xFF (255)..
    //Don't know why that is.
    if (buf[3] == 1)  {
        //println("Datatype: " + str(buf[3]));
        println ("x: " + str(buf[4]) + " y: " + str(buf[5]) + " z: " + str(buf[6]));
    
      }
    
    chronos.write(accDataRequest);    
}