Configure of Xbee using Arduino UNO

Hello Friends J

This will help you configure a series of 2 XBee directly via an Arduino Board without any need of separate USB adapter.

Step 1: Requirements for configuring the XBee

These are the requirements to configure your xbee 

1) Arduino UNO board
2) Xbee Zigbee shield(can also connect the pins of XBee directly to the Arduino)
3) Xbee Series 2
4) Male to Female wires 
5) Arduino IDE

Note: This tutorial assumes that we have enough understanding about the Arduino and that we can connect and upload the code via the Arduino IDE.

Step 2: Preparing the Arduino.

Firstly we have to set up the Arduino by uploading these simple codes. At this point Xbee is not connected with the Arduino.

Step 3: Connecting the Arduino with the XBee shield

Connect the Arduino to the xbee shield as shown in the sketch.

Please note that Tx of Arduino has to be connected to Tx of Xbee and Rx of Arduino to Rx of Xbee. Make sure to connect the 3.3v of the Arduino to Xbee's VCC and not the 5v as this might damage the xbee.

For the ttl board that I purchased from robomart.com I was asked to connect the reset of the board to reset of the Arduino board, this can be seen in the second pic.

Step 4:

Once the connections are made open the Xctu software and use it test to detect the Xbee attached. If "All is well" then you can see the device is of the Xbee attached if not don't worry change your baud rate to 115200 and check. If this also doesn't work please do leave your comment I will try my level best to help you out.

If the device is detected now move to modem configuration tab and select the always update firmware and click on read, this will read the current configuration of the modem mostly it will be in router mode, in this case it's in API mode as I have configured it so.

Step 5: Reference and thanks

Hope this will help you to configure your XBee if you face any difficulty please let me know, always there to lend my hand.

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