Arduino port XBee Series 1 & Series 2

Prerequisites

• Arduino Toolchain

The Arduino library used for integration with wiselib will be in the lite branch

git clone git://github.com/ibr-alg/Arduino.git

cd Arduino

git checkout lite

The XBee library has been merged in the branch already.

• Hardware requirements

XBee Series 1 modules or/and XBee Series 2 modules

Arduino Wireless Shield

• Configuration

The XBee radios need to be configured before they can be tested. For testing purposes, one can be configured as the co-ordinator and the other as the end device.

This is the XBee Configuration guide for configuring both Series 1 & 2 devices. The X-CTU application mentioned in the guide is a windows only application. To run it on linux, use this guide.

##Testing

The example apps for Series 1 module testing can be found in wiselib.testing/apps/arduino_apps/ within the folders

xbee_radio_app for Tx device and

xbee_radio_receive_app for Rx device

Similarly for Series 2 module, xbeeS2_radio_app and xbeeS2_radio_receive_app

(For the Series 2 radio, the destination address(SH & SL) can be changed within the example_app with variables MSB and LSB)

Update the paths in the Makefile and make the necessary changes to use the PORT which could be /dev/ttyUSB# or /dev/ttyACM# based on your machine.

Make sure that while running make the Arduino is connected to the right PORT and that the switch on the Wireless shield is in USB position. While running the program, the switch should be in Micro position.