Background, I have Xbee3’s from the Digi Mesh Kit working USB hub and Windows 10 using XCTU.
I have installed an XB24CZ7WITB003 in the Explorer board and connected to USB. Red light on board goes on. Windows and XCTU find the COM port. XCTU doesn’t discover the Xbee. I see some configuration issues here:
For Xbee3 and XSC modules. No mention of config for XB24 (board says S2C).
How do I get the XB24 to work with Explorer?
Thanks,
Dave
I’ve used the Explorer board with both the XB24 and current XBee3 modules. Getting the software connection established has almost always been pretty easy. However, I did recently have one give me problems though it was a little different that described in the OP (mine was found by XCTU but wouldn’t load or accept any settings/commands). I wrote to Digi support who suggested pushing in new firmware [as described in this link. I had to try it a few different times but it did eventually solve the problem.](XCTU User Guide)
Thanks brow, that didn’t solve the problem, but verified there was someway to get an XB24 to work with Explorer.
That led me to … this XB24/S2C is a programmable device, and starts in a special mode.
This is the first solution I found, but doesn’t persist through power cycle:
See the exchange on Nov 15, 2017, in the replied answer.
This works, but needs to be repeated every power cycle:
(a) Connect with terminal over USB
(b) Press +++, etc until a menu appears that has “B-Bypass” as an option
(c) Press only B key, don’t follow the Enter, etc
(d) Exit terminal simulator
(e) Run XCTU
(f) Connect as usual, it found board at 115K baud, could configure and Write
There is also a way to do the bypass mode from XCTU, using Tools > Serial Console.
A work around that I saw (no link) was to write a program for the HC8 to automatically convert to Bypass mode.