The ZigBee Project

Automating your home, one sensor at a time

The real missing Link

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

In a previous post where we tried out the BeeKit, one of the major issues we had was to get the Digi 1011 patch (code base) to work. The patch is made to be installed on an “old” BeeKit and not the new “BeeKit Wireless Connectivity ToolKit REV 1.5″.
We said in order to get that [...]

K2 Status update – X-CTU on a Mac

Friday, May 29th, 2009

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 [...]

Digi Xbee 2.5 Development Kit and Starter Kit has arrived

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

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 [...]