Xbee and Arduino Help !!

Wireless & IoT
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Hi there,

Tried searching and didn’t see a topic for this. It seems everything I can find isn’t helping me so I hope there isn’t a deeper problem.

Alright so I have everything set up as in these pictures:

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No matter what I do I can’t get them to speak to each other or get a serial connection and the Arduino to transmit over the serial connection. I have just a simple sketch on the arduino that sends the string hi there over the serial connection.

The settings that I’ve used for the xbee’s are as per http://www.netlabtoolkit.org/learning/tutorials/xbee/

Basically setting one of the xbee’s up as the coordinator, and one for the end device.

Through the X-CTU I can test/query without any issues, and configure the modem without any issues, however I can’t get anything form the range test or the terminal.

Any help greatly appreciated !!!

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Please does anyone know how to fix this problem ? I’ve been told that my sparkfun board my be defective and a.k.a. useless but I don’t know how I would go about testing that… I get power though to the board connected to the (arduino side) sparkfun board but nothing transmits to the serial port on the computer. -__- any help appreciated but it doesn’t seem like anyone here can help :frowning:

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can you post a schematic?

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Schematic would help indeed. Also check my Common XBee Mistakes http://www.faludi.com/projects/common-xbee-mistakes/ page. Perhaps something there will ring a bell for you?