The Aggregator now transmits the capture timestamp of each packet to the
positioning server. For now this timestamp is not stored, only displayed
(in verbose mode) when a request is received.
To be consistent with the other modules, the positioning server must be
called OwlPS Positioner instead of Positioning, and the executable
owlps-positionerd (even if the daemon mode is not implemented yet).
That's a big commit for a tiny change.
Aggregation time, check intervals, etc.
By default the aggregator cannot fully aggregate calibration requests
any more, only the positioning and autocalibration requests.
In order to aggregate calibration requests, the aggregation timeout
needs to be increased, or the number of packets of the request and
the delay between each of them lowered.
Differentiate the port on which the autocalibration hello messages are
sent to the aggregator by the listeners, and the one on which the
autocalibration orders are sent by the aggregator to the listeners.
This will allow to run a listener and an aggregator on the same machine
with autocalibration enabled.
Both in the listener and the aggregator, the option -a (autocalibration
port) has been replaced by the options -O (autocalibration order port)
and -H (autocalibration hello port). In the listener, the option -H was
previously used to set the hello delay; this is now the role of the -T
option.
Modify the *time*() functions to avoid passing structures in arguments
(using const pointers instead) or returning structures (using result
arguments instead).
In the listener & aggregator, the signal strength is stored as an
unsigned byte. To display the actual (negative) value, one must
substract 256 (0x100) to the unsigned value.
This commit changes several things:
- Use the decimal (256) instead of the hexadecimal value (0x100).
- Don't substract 256 when copying the value to another unsigned byte
(aggregator).
- Be careful with the type length. In the positioning server, a SS
could be copied to a signed byte, while (theoretically) the negative
value can exceed the capacity of the signed byte. measurement.hh now
defines a type ss_t to store a signal strength value with the good
size (it is currently an int_fast16_t).
"start_time" was meaningless in the global data structures of owlps.h,
and could lead to errors in the aggregator, since it defines a field
start_time in one of its internal structures.
Instead of #define DEBUG, we now prefer to use either verbose levels
or, when needed, NDEBUG. Each Makefile was modified to be able to pass
-D NDEBUG to the compiler (but the corresponding lines are commented),
except in the modules where assert is never used, in which case the
Makefile passes -D DEBUG.
Long story short: to totally disable debugging code, comment-out the
"-D DEBUG" lines and uncomment the "-D NDEBUG" lines, in every Makefile.
-lrt is now added as needed in each module Makefile, but not directly in
the library. Furthermore, the Makefiles add -lrt only if the platform is
Linux.
Matteo Cypriani