To resolve an issue with the CC3000 firmware in regards to mDNS advertising. I need to create a timer that periodically sends out a mDNS packet using the CC3000's mdnsAdvertiser method.
However when calling the mdnsAdvertiser method I get the following error
ti.sysbios.knl.Semaphore: line 207: assertion failure: A_badContext: bad calling context. Must be called from a Task.
The error is pretty clear, I need to call the mdnsAdvertiser method from within a Task. So I go ahead and create a task using the following code.
void mDNSSendTask(UArg arg0, UArg arg1) { char device_name[] = "TestServer"; mdnsAdvertiser(1,device_name,strlen(device_name)); } void mDNSSend(UArg arg0) { Task_Params taskParams; Task_Handle task0; Error_Block eb; Error_init(&eb); /* Create 1 task with priority 15 */ Task_Params_init(&taskParams); taskParams.stackSize = 512; taskParams.priority = 1; task0 = Task_create(mDNSSendTask, &taskParams, &eb); if (task0 == NULL) { System_abort("Task create failed"); } Task_delete(&task0); } But now I get the following error message when calling Task_create
ti.sysbios.gates.GateMutex: line 97: assertion failure: A_badContext: bad calling context. See GateMutex API doc for details.
How do I resolve this issue? Or am I going about this all wrong. I know that when creating my Timer/Clock it automatically creates a SWI, is then creating a Task within a SWI context a problem? If so, how can I go about calling my mdnsAdvertiser method using the TI-RTOS timer?
Glenn.