xbees not comunicating.

Wireless & IoT
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hello there, i have 2 xbees sitting on the adafruit shield. they are connected to two indivual arduinos with the 4 wire configuration (RX, Tx, GND, 5V). I am trying to get these to comunicate to i can read a value with one arduino and transmite that value wirelessly to another arduino so there it can be to control a servo motor. But these are not communicating with each other. first, the green light was blinking fine on both xbees but trying everything i connected one of the arduinos (with the xbee connected to it) to the computer and configure it with X-ctu but when i tried that the led quit bliking on one of them so now i have no communication and one led not bliking. i tried resetting the xbee and that didnt do it either. does anybody have any ideas of how to fix this? it need to get it going asap for my Bachelor’s senior project.

PS: i did not configuration before connecting them to ther arduinos with the shield because i thought they were supposed to work “out of the box”.

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Are these series 1 or 2 products?

you need to

  1. read and understand how to apply the XBees. You need to “pair” them, so that A and B know the addresses of one another. these kinds of devices, like most of their kind, are not plug and play. Gee, even WiFi isn’t plug and play - you have to setup SSID, encryption, etc.

  2. use XCTU to configure each to what makes sense for what you are trying to do.