Comments on: Playing Xbee. Part 1 – First impression.

By: Eric S

Eric S — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:45:18 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Did you ever solve your Zigbee (broadcast mode) losing inpuit and output data?

I am trying to use API mode to send AT commands to set four DIO’s on multiple endpoints. The problem is that I need to broadcast one API (Type 17) packet for each DIO pin. I get a bunch of replies (Type 97 Packets), one for eaxch DIO for each endpoint. A lot of packets are getting overwritten in both the TX and RX buffers. Would using CTS and RTS pins between my arduino and the coordinator help me?

I would really appreciate your feedback.

Eric

By: oleg

oleg — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:57:24 +0000

Range depends on the environment and antenna; to be on a safe side, I would say from 30 to 50 meters.

By: Roseman

Roseman — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:10:16 +0000

Hi man, do you happen to know the realistic range in metres of these xBee tranceivers?

By: ALI

ALI — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:53:56 +0000

HI OLEG,

I am trying to connect XBEE series 1 to connect with microchip PICDEM development board. (http://www.microchipdirect.com/productsearch.aspx?Keywords=DV164136). The other Xbee is connected to the computer using USB.
I connected the pins right, but I am having a hardtime interfacing the two together. basically I am just trying to test it out by sending a message from my computer to show on LCD on the development board. Can you help me regarding codes and connections
.Thanks

By: sya

sya — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:27:53 +0000

hello…
i have a problem with xctu terminal. I have 2 xbee that to communicate between us. But now when i try to send data to other xbee at terminal rx that get data but have error together with the data.And at terminal only one CTS is green and other one is black.how to get both CTS green.

example at terminal xctu

xbee1 xbee2
send “a” receive “\…~a…w…….”
that error i mean

By: amin

amin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:25:03 +0000

hi
i have two zigbee pro … i want to use that at AT Command mode with pic microcontoller
first i should send ‘+++’ to zigbee and zigbee response to me ‘ok’ … after that i dont know to do??
please discribe for me??

By: oleg

oleg — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:57:55 +0000

It should.

By: Cass

Cass — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:41:24 +0000

if i using 18F4580,this coding still work?

By: Sansu

Sansu — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:56:03 +0000

Hi Oleg,
I am using Xbee as a receiver and I use MSP430controller. From a Transmiting Radio I sent 38520 bytes data. In the first case I connected receiver end Xbee-pro directly to PC with hardware flow controlled thru software. I am receiving all 38520 bytes.

In the second case I interfaced Receiver Xbee to the controller (MSP430) with RTS. logic is as follows

#pragma vector=USART0RX_VECTOR
__interrupt void usart0_rx (void)
{
P2OUT &= ~0×80; // RTS low stop overflow
pic[q] = RXBUF0; // RXBUF0 to pic array
q++;
P2OUT |= 0×80; // RTS high;
}

I didn’t connect CTS at all to controller. here i m not getting exact number of data bytes. Any help would be thankful.

By: oleg

oleg — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:44:12 +0000

I don’t think it will.