Hi I have two Xbee pros hooked up to two arduino duemilanovas. I’ve used google a lot and tried some of the guides, but I can’t get anywhere.
Please help! 
well, give us some specifics and we can try to help.
So I have two duemilanovas which both have the XBee shield with a 60mW XBee Pro. (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … ts_id=9063)
I want to be able to have one arduino1 recieve input from my computer(through USB), and have arduino1 tell arduino2 wirelessly to turn on an LED (for proof of concept)
Which series Xbee’s are you using?
“802.15.4” XBees (Series 1) or “ZNet 2.5” or “ZB” (Series 2). (There are Pro and Standard version available for both series.)
I suspect the reason why the guides you found are not working is that they are for a different version Xbee than what you have! A lot of the guides out there are for the original version 1, and a lot of people are now buying version 2 devices.
Post what series you are using and I’m sure someone here will be able to point you at the appropriate tutorial.
Thanks for the quick response
I think the it’s an XBee Pro series one.
On the back it says
“XBP24-AUI”
“001-revB”
“2008-08-12-12”
madman92:
“XBP24-AUI”“001-revB”
“2008-08-12-12”
Thanks! I have an XBee Pro with the almost the exact same info, and it is a Series 1 Pro. (The good news is that Series 1 devices have more info on how to get started.)
Specifically, how have you tried to use the Xbee? Do you have an interface board to connect them to your PC or microcontroller? For example, something like the XBee Explorer that SparkFun sells?
Also, what microcontroller are you looking to use this with? AVR, PIC, Arduino?
Unfortunately I don’t have the interface board, and sparkfun is out of stock. But I have two duemilanovas with an Xbee shield (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … ts_id=9063).
When I have tried to use them, I hook up Xbee to the Xbee shield, then the shield to the arduino, then the arduino to my computer via USB.
When I try to use X-CTU I get nothing.
Thanks a lot for your help
Okay. Since you have an Xbee shield, you can use the Arduino & sheild to allow X-CTU to connect to the XBee (in place of the Explorer).
This is documented in the article linked below, in the section titled “Configuring the Xbee Module”.
Elsewhere in the guide, you will need to undo those changes so that you can run the test applications to communicate between the two modules. However, you will need two XBee shields at that time.
Article is here: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoXbeeShield
Please post if you have any more ?'s or success.