Hello,
I’m in the market for a new netbook and was wondering if X-CTU will work on a windows 7 system? Thanks.
It seems to work on my Win 7 PC at work or at least the X-CTU program installs, runs and downloads firmware updates. Just haven’t connected an XBee to it yet.
Thanks for the reply.
waltr:
It seems to work on my Win 7 PC at work or at least the X-CTU program installs, runs and downloads firmware updates. Just haven’t connected an XBee to it yet.
works on mine just fine to USB
I’m running into some issues with drivers. X-CTU installs and updates fine, but when the XBee in through USB, it doesn’t find the drivers on its own. I’ve gone to the FTDI website and installed the latest drivers, which are Win7 compatible, and tell the Device Manager exactly which folder the drivers are in, and it still can’t find the drivers.
On the Digi forum, there was a thread from back in April about XBee Pro modules needing additional drivers besides the FTDI drivers. You can go to the Digi website, open a support case and have them send you the drivers, but they aren’t available for download from the website.
I created a support case today, so I’ll update this thread if those drivers work. If they don’t, I’m going to try to update the firmware on the XBees. They weren’t plugged in for over a year.
Both my computers are 64 bit systems, so that might also be the problem.
If it means anything, I also recently bought an Arduino board, which also has an FTDI chip, and my system found the drivers immediately.
No extra drivers needed that I know of.
XBee itself has a serial UART. That can wire up to an RS232 level shifter and on to a real DB9 serial port or a USB-Serial adapter.
XCTU uses a COM port number interface, preferably a real serial port highly recommended - if you don’t have a real port, buy a cheap serial port PCI card. USB to XBee is via a virtual COM port driver - like those that come with USB-to-serial cable adapters. FTDI is the best chipset with driver vendor; their chip is embedded in many products