I have 2 xbee series 1, a lilypad xbee breakout, a flora board and an xbee usb explorer. I’ve uploaded code to the flora which prints serial values. I’ve connected the tx on the flora to the tx on the xbee and the rx on the flora to the rx on the xbee (I’ve tried reversing them also). I powered the xbee with 3.3v from the flora. I connected the usb explorer to the computer and opened a serial monitor and did not see the values coming from the flora. I have also tried opening the terminal in x-ctu. I am missing something. Do I need to make one xbee a coordinator and the other an end? Which is which? Why does the tx pin blink when I connect the flora to the computer via the usb cable and open the serial monitor, but it doesn’t blink when I attach the flora to the xbee?
With Series 1 XBees you do not need a coordinator but you do need to have the addresses matched up so one Xbee sends to the other Xbee. Did you search and read the many threads in this sub-forum about using XBee’s? There are threads explaining how to do this.
Did X-CTU see the XBee connected to the PC?
Series 1 Xbees come from the factory configured to play with each other with no settings changes. However, you can double check the settings in XCTU to confirm that they are set up to work together.
Here’s a tutorial on that end of things.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Changin … aud-Rates/
I don’t think you will need to do any configuration though. The blinking when connecting to the computer over usb is likely a USB configuration that is making the LED blink. Likely unrelated.
There is a specific step I would like you to try out of that tutorial and that is the step that is Test/Query of the devices.
use of coordinator is optional.
XBee S1 is an end devices or coordinator according to your using XCTU to enable/disable cooridanator.
Out of the box, the two are end devices and they transmit to a broadcast address for demo. As said, lots of examples.
Do the range test demo in XCTU with the pair. Then read, read, read, the OEM manual where all the config params are.
Try to get both working on a PC with two serial/USB ports, or two PCs/laptops. Leave the microprocessor out of the equation until you learn.
We can help, if you tell us what your goal is.