point to point comm using serial explorer & Xbee

Wireless & IoT
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Hey guys,

I have a project I hope you could help me with. I am completely new to wireless & Xbees and I need few hints on what to do here.

My projects requires receiving numeric serial data from few sensors from one point and transmitting it in the same form onto another xbee .

I have purchased two Xbee Pro 868 RF modules and thinking of getting two Xbee serial explorers: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9111.

My question it simply is if that would work? The explorers include UARTs so I suppose there’s no need of PIC?

Thank You for reading

Stav

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X-bee have Serial interface this means you will able to comunicate with them using serial protocol, a Pic or other controller is a must,

first you have to define the X-bee address, address are used to identify them in a RF network, let’s say device ‘AA’ is the sender (where the sensor will transmit) and ‘BB’ is the receptor where the data is going to.

for that you have to download http://www.digi.com/support/kbase/kbase … jsp?kb=125 the sofware

next: all you have to do is use the X bee as if your device were wired!, in other words comm are transparent when X bee are well configured, just send a char ‘A’ and the other end you got tha same ‘A’.

hope this helps you ! :smiley: