New Fio and xbee usb explorer problem uploading.

Wireless & IoT
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Ok, so this week I bought a new arduino fio, and also a usb explorer as well as 2-series1 xbee’s.

Im using arduino IDE 18

Here is what I have done.

  1. solder the usb explorer rts-dio3 together. and my fio was soldered already from sparkfun

  2. powered them up (duh, just have to make sure you guys know too)

  3. flashed the xbee chips firmware and settings in x-ctu with bboth indivdually as tutorials state and also raw uploading the saved files (end-device, and coordinator)

  4. I check the values for both in x-ctu AND the xbeeconfig util. they all check out fine.

EXCEPT I cannot no matter what I do use the discover function in x-ctu.(pissed about that one)

  1. I go to flash properly (right com’s and board style) and it starts communicating and looks GREAT. and then it errors on me in the arduino IDE.

And then this crap.

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0xfc

avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

Also, I tried all last night to upload as well, and it DID work, ONCE!@#!@#!

It worked when I started uploading right as I turned on my fio, within less than 1 second of turning the fio on I started u/ling.

Nothing else so far.

As a history of me and arduino goes, a couple months ago I got a duemilinove and have been VERY pleased. Many different config/s flashes on that one. doing many various things. ALL SUCCESSES!!!

Then I got a mini pro 5v. for a smaller footprint to finalize a project. once again PERFECT!!!

Now I wanted to slap up some wireless. And bam. nothing…

Its depressing to not even be able to find any posts that help either, nor tutorials that are REAL current.

I found one or two, but they havent helped. I walk-through them like a neanderthal and still nothing.

what gives?

coms are nice and matched with port speed, and all pc side seems fine.

Please help. Thanks

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got it.

the dumb error was because I didn’t check/recheck/check again the baud rates at all points.

Also…

IT DID NOT WORK WITH FIO EVEN THOUGH IT WAS LISTED AS A BOARD TYPE!

It did and has continued to work flawlessly and fast via the pro/pro mini board type.

I am satisfied with my results, and now am playing/coding away…

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Are you trying to upload programs wirelessly?

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SFE-TS-Robert:
Are you trying to upload programs wirelessly?

They are series 1 xbee’s btw.

Yes, I then got it to work, and then tried to implement the encryption and it failed again.

I then had to re-config the whole thing again to make it work one more time.

Its working now, but can’t seem to get the encryption working.

I set the encryption to on and match both keys, and nothing still. It talks to eachother but no upload.

I’ll be trying the encryption again soon, but it works fine for now. Uploads well again.

Thanks