How to use otPingSenderPing

[purvisb]

I'm trying to use otPingSenderPing:

...
    else if(strcmp(command, "ping") == 0){
        otPingSenderConfig config;
        memset(&config, 0, sizeof(config));
        otIp6Address aDestination;


        otIp6AddressFromString(argument, &aDestination);


        config.mDestination         = aDestination;
        memcpy(&config.mSource, otThreadGetRloc(aContext), 16);
        config.mStatisticsCallback  = HandlePingStatistics;
        config.mCallbackContext     = aContext;
 
        error = otPingSenderPing(aContext, &config);


        otCliOutputFormat("%s\r\n",otThreadErrorToString(error));
    }


}


void HandlePingStatistics(const otPingSenderStatistics *aStatistics, void *aContext){
    otCliOutputFormat("%u packets transmitted, %u packets received.", aStatistics->mSentCount, aStatistics->mReceivedCount);
}
...

Here is the rest of the code

It always says 1 packet transmitted and 0 packets received. I checked wireshark and I don't see any icmpv6 transmissions. Am I using otPingSenderPing wrong?

[jwhui]

@purvisb , have you tried using the OpenThread CLI ping command?

[purvisb]

@jwhui I wont be able to use the CLI for my use case. Maybe I can call CLI commands from main.c?

[jwhui]

@purvisb , were you able to resolve this issue?

[purvisb]

@jwhui no. I know how to output commands to the CLI. How do I take inputs from the CLI as well? If I ping something I want to receive the stats perhaps as a string.

perhaps I need an ping listener and just send the pings with the CLI?