Please help troubleshoot a very simple xbee setup

Wireless & IoT
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I could really use some help with some basic xbee seting up to see if I am doing something wrong or if some of my hardware is malfunctioning.

I own:

2pcs xbee series 1

2pcs Xbee Explorer USB

2pcs arduino fio

2 FTDI interfaces for use to program the fios

I also have an exbee shield (sparkfun) on an UNO

I have tried every configuration possible to get one xbee to send readable sensor data using D0 set to Analog or the arduino Analog.reading from A0 and Serial.printing the results… Nothing is working so far.

Can anyone experienced with arduino and xbee pass along a very simple sketch that will maybe use an xbee/fio to send say the number 123 to a second arduino fio w/ xbee attachment…

After about a month of trying I still cant even do that and its driving me insane!!!

Hope someone can help me with this…

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Actually in thinking about it and seeing how few people there are out there that are both experienced with xbee and willing to share info, I would be more than happy to switch over to another product such as the wifly. All I need is a way to get two transmitters to each send x and y accelerometer data to an arduino with wireless receiver 10 ft is all the range I need but the transmitter packages just need to be as small as possible… Any ideas?