- Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:56 pm
#114655
Hello all! I've been following the tutorials and made it to the basic serial input/output using an atmega168. I'm new to electronics so I was pretty excited when I was able to get the basic-in-atmega168 program working. Here's proof that the program works ...
I had purchased a couple of XBees a while back in hopes I'd be able to do something cool with them once I learned some more. Well this seemed like a good opportunity to use them. The model is XBee 1mW Wire Antennas (sku: WRL-08665) and I have two of them. The goal was to use them as a direct replacement of the serial cable. I read the manual along with some tutorials about setting them up. Pretty simple to do. I was able to use X-CTU to configure the XBees and plugged them in and tried the program again ...
So it kinda works. Each time I typed a character I would get a response, but the text was messed up. I tried over and over and the same problem happens consistently. I get a response but in that garbled text. I figured that I had a setting wrong so I started to Google my issue. And then I Google'd some more ... and more ..... Let's just say that I've configured the heck out of these things without any luck. I tried configuring them through a serial connection with '+++' but the same problem persisted. Different baud rates didn't help either. The manual says they're pretty much setup to work out of the box as a serial cable replacement. At this point I figure I'm overlooking something so simple that I should just ask here.
Here's how they're setup:
I had purchased a couple of XBees a while back in hopes I'd be able to do something cool with them once I learned some more. Well this seemed like a good opportunity to use them. The model is XBee 1mW Wire Antennas (sku: WRL-08665) and I have two of them. The goal was to use them as a direct replacement of the serial cable. I read the manual along with some tutorials about setting them up. Pretty simple to do. I was able to use X-CTU to configure the XBees and plugged them in and tried the program again ...
So it kinda works. Each time I typed a character I would get a response, but the text was messed up. I tried over and over and the same problem happens consistently. I get a response but in that garbled text. I figured that I had a setting wrong so I started to Google my issue. And then I Google'd some more ... and more ..... Let's just say that I've configured the heck out of these things without any luck. I tried configuring them through a serial connection with '+++' but the same problem persisted. Different baud rates didn't help either. The manual says they're pretty much setup to work out of the box as a serial cable replacement. At this point I figure I'm overlooking something so simple that I should just ask here.
Here's how they're setup:
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XBee 1 (connected to computer)
ATMY 1
ATDL 2
ATID 1313
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And I have the pictures of them so I figured I'd add it too ...
I did read through these forums but I couldn't find any posts with this specific issue. I did see discussions of "Better XBee Documentation" but a search for those terms didn't provide anything of use. So, any ideas?XBee 2 (connected to atmega168)
ATMY 2
ATDL 1
ATID 1313
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