X-CTU has been a great tool for playing around with different, parameters, changing firmware and generally having fun with the XBees, but being a Mac guy, it always makes me grumble a bit when I need to start Virtual Box with Windows 7 just to do trivial things like changing parameters.
Digi has a great document [...]
Where to start? an Introduction
Lets say you one day wake up and feel an urge to build some cool Zigbee things, what do you do? Besides just going back to sleep because it is 6 am in the morning and just forget about the whole thing, you need to do some research, but where do you [...]
As you all know we received the XBee Starter kit with the 2.5 dev kit. The starter kit was ordered in Sweden where I am located. I ordered it from Farnell (link in Swedish), the price is 2017.50 SEK (≈ € 190, $260) including tax and shipping. In US you can order it directly from Digi for $129. The Starter Kit [...]
We have received the Digi Xbee 2.5 Development Kit and the Digi Starter Kit……… No candy in this shipment…. bummer. According to Digi this is what we have ordered:
“The 2.4 GHz XBee ZB/ZNet 2.5 (formerly Series 2) Development Kit includes everything you need to set up a wireless ZigBee network in a matter of minutes. Two 50 mW PRO [...]
Since I only ordered a single XBee module (What exactly was I thinking?), I obviously can’t set up a network. The next best thing would be to build a thermometer and see how to work with OneWire modules and to get a feel for the Arduino.
After reading some tutorials on the Arduino, this looked to [...]
Step one is sensors and specifically temperature sensors. As the first project we want to be able to measure the temperature, not to control any thermostats. We know there are several products existing that can control the temperature using Zigbee, but the goal with this whole project is to build as much as we can [...]