Xbe+Arduino sleep

Wireless & IoT
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Helo!

Im using xbee pro 868 Mhz and arduino in a project. Being able to put the system to sleep is omportant for mee since im not sending so often. I was planing to use xbee sleep function together with arduino sleepmode.But it seems like that the cirrent firmaware of xbee 868 does’nt have sleep mode only idle mode using around 65mA. Even though this is not much i want to cut it down as much as possible since im only sending sensor data a few bytes 4 times pr hour. I managed to put the arduino in sleep and at lowest it was using 10mA which very good.

Any ideas how i can put the arduino and the xbee to sleep after sending data? on the receiver side i have arduino xbee connected to pc.

Thanks!

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Does that XBee have a sleep pin?

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This is the anwet i got from digi:

“The XBee-PRO 868 OEM RF Modules currently do not support sleep. This is a feature that we are working to add to the next release of the firmware. We do not have a tentative release date from our engineers.”

In the datasheet pin 9 is declared as sleep pin.

http://www.digi.com/pdf/ds_xbeepro868.pdf