Debian day 56: Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio
Attempt two at getting it working The SmartShepherd devices are based around a Texas Instruments bluetooth low energy chip: the CC2640R2F. I have been using Ti's "Code Composer Studio" to build the firmware for the device. It is not my favourite tool but it does get the job done (eventually). Previously I have upgraded my main Windows build to Code Composer Studio 10 so I know (in theory) it should work on Debian as the system is available for Ubuntu. I tried to get this working on day 1 but failed to get the setup to do anything sensible with my project. Partly because Code Composer Studio is...hard to use. Partly because all the setup is dependent on windows paths when you start a project on Windows and it's tough to find all the places you need to make changes. I mean, it's almost impossible to move a CCS project to a different directory on the same machine, so shifting it to a different operating system is a lot more work than I had planned for. Ins...