InSight Desktop

Ember's InSight Desktop is the most integrated ZigBee application debugging tool available. By providing developers with a complete view of their network in a graphical manner, InSight Desktop greatly reduces debugging effort and time to market. From within InSight Desktop, developers can automatically discover and connect to their target devices over a TCP/IP network using InSight Adpaters and Ember's unrivalled Ethernet backchannel technology.

From there they can control their application, upload firmware, collect debugging information including packet traces, API traces, and custom printf statements, all across multiple devices simultaneously. Builtin protocol analysis and traffic visualization engines allow developers to correlate events occurring on their devices with network communication events, resulting in order-of-magnitude reductions in development and debugging times.

Key Features

Protocol Decoding
InSight Desktop recoginizes and decodes ZigBee packets, presenting detailed internal data if needed. An extensable decoder mechanism allows decoding of user-created application formats.
Event Aggregation and Filtering
Unlike typical packet sniffers, Desktop automatically aggregates many packets into higher level transactions, allowing the developer to much better understand what's happening in the network. A series of packet exchanges that represent a single end-to-end transaction will be reduced to a single line in the display that can be expanded only when needed.
Powerful Debugging Ethernet Backchannel
Unlike conventional sniffers, InSight Adapters have a direct connection to each target system. Via Ember's proprietary InSight Port on the EM250 and EM260, InSight Desktop can display a 100% accurate packet log along with API traces of the EmberZNet stack calls, and application debugging data via the Virtual UART functions.
Visualization Engine
The visualization tools built into Desktop show the developer what is happening in the network in a color-coded graphical manner. Transactions in the network are represented by colored icons around nodes- and the interface allows the developer to step through recorded transactions to visualize traffic.
Node Management
InSight Desktop enables management of each of the InSight Adapters a developer has. Via the GUI, developers can reprogram all of their nodes quickly and easily, shortening design iteration.
Built on Eclipse
InSight Desktop is built on the popular open-source Eclipse IDE framework to ensure that creating and using additional plug-ins in the future will be as easy as possible