With the coordinator XBee still connected to your computer via the FT232 Breakout, you should
see “testing…” over and over in the “Terminal” tab of X-CTU. Hooray, wireless
communication!
Final Thoughts
If you’ve gone through all these steps, you should have a basic idea of how to use the XBee ZNet
modules to communicate wirelessly between your Arduino and your computer. If that’s all you
want to do with the XBees, then there’s not much more (if anything) you’ll need to configure to
get your project working.
If you will be using more than two XBee modules and you want two routers/end devices to talk
to one-another, you’ll need to set the Destination Nodes for each module. You can easily do this
by entering command mode (typing “+++”) and then sending “ATDNxxxxxx” where xxxxxx is
the Node Identifier (NI) you’ve set-up for the Destination Node XBee such as “router2”. This
essentially replaces the “ATMYxxxx” command that is commonly used with XBee Series 1
modules.
For more information about using the XBee ZNet modules, I highly recommend the Knowledge
Base articles and support forum on Digi’s site,
www.digi.com
– the folks at Digi seem to be
pretty good about offering support.
I would appreciate any feed back on this tutorial. Feel free to e-mail me at ‘caimaver at yahoo
dot com’.
- Cairn
