XBee Shield Issues with XCTU

Wireless & IoT
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Hi All,

So I’m having major problems trying to connect to an XBee through XCTU. I am using an [Arduino Uno, an [XBee Shield, and an [S1 XBee. When connecting power through the USB connection I get a power light on the Shield as well as a blinking LED for DIO5. When I try and do test/query on XCTU it says that it cannot connect to the modem. I know there are issues with the XBee shield and I have shorted the diode on DIN. I know it’s not hte XBee to obecause i have a USB explorer board for the other end of communication and both of my XBees work and test without issue when popped into it. Any ideas on what I could try would be greatly appreciated as I’m not quite sure what could be causing it to fail. It seems like this should be relatively simple.](http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8664)](http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9976)](http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9950)

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you cant use the XCTU program while the xbee is plugged into the xbee shield. there is a switch on the shield to switch between UART and DLINE. if the switch is towards the UART end it means the rx/tx lines are connected thru the USB connector and arent going to the xbee. Changing the switch to DLINE does the opposite - all data is going into the xbee and not out the USB port.

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So does that mean I need a breakout board if I want to talk to the XBee, and I can only use the shield after the XBee has been configured elsewhere?

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private_hell:
you cant use the XCTU program while the xbee is plugged into the xbee shield.

Yes you can. It worked for me.