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Martin Turon 73060ae8e1 spinel-cli: Add NCP build to TravisCI (#364)
* ncp: Added spinel-cli and initial travis CI test suite integration.

This PR adds a command line tool, named spinel-cli, that converts ot-cli shell commands (as documented in https://github.com/openthread/openthread/blob/master/src/cli/README.md) to spinel NCP commands (as documented in https://github.com/openthread/openthread/blob/master/src/ncp/PROTOCOL.md).

Also added is a patch to node.py that provides a way to run the existing continuous integration certification test suite against an NCP build rather than a CLI build (by prefacing the command to start the test with the environment variable setting NODE_TYPE=ncp-sim):

cd tests/scripts/thread-cert
NODE_TYPE=ncp-sim top_builddir=../../.. python Cert_5_1_02_ChildAddressTimeout.py
The power of this tool is three fold:

1) As a path to add testing of the NCP in simulation to continuous integration
2) As a path to automated testing of testbeds running NCP firmware on hardware
3) As a simple debugging tool for NCP builds of OpenThread

openthread$ cd tools/spinel-cli/
spinel-cli$ ./spinel-cli.py
Opening pipe to ../../examples/apps/ncp/ot-ncp 1
spinel-cli > help

Available commands (type help <name> for more information):
============================================================
channel            extaddr       mode              route
child              extpanid      netdataregister   router
childtimeout       h             networkidtimeout  routerupgradethreshold
clear              help          networkname       scan
contextreusedelay  history       panid             state
counter            ifconfig      ping              thread
debug              ipaddr        prefix            v
debug-term         keysequence   q                 version
eidcache           leaderdata    quit              whitelist
enabled            leaderweight  releaserouterid
exit               masterkey     rloc16

spinel-cli > version
OPENTHREAD/gd4d4e9d-dirty; Aug 11 2016 14:40:44
Done
spinel-cli > thread start
Done
spinel-cli > state
leader
Done
spinel-cli >

The tool provides three ways to connect to an NCP image:

1) pipe to stdin/stdout of a command line tool (default): -p ./ot-ncp
2) serial connection to a hardware device: -u /dev/ttyUSB0
3) socket connection to the port of a helper tool such as ncp-spi-driver: -s 1234

spinel-cli$ ./spinel-cli.py --help
Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u UART, --uart=UART
  -p PIPE, --pipe=PIPE
  -s SOCKET, --socket=SOCKET
  -n NODEID, --nodeid=NODEID
  -q, --quiet
  -v, --verbose
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