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10 years, 2 months ago.
how to interface xbee with mbed
hey ppl, i need connect one xbee and 1 mbed as a receiver and other xbee+mbed as a tx. i surfed a lot on net but i dint get anything relevant. i have xbee s2
also if i m doing this experiment how can i see this output..(i dont have any external device like lcd ).. i wish to see the output on the scree on my PC.. i have seen a lot of code for xbees+mbed but they all needed to have external keyboard n lcd CAn anyone help me with this?? plz reply asap
1 Answer
10 years, 2 months ago.
Hello Ritika,
For xbee check out this page. The XBee can be communicated with by using the Serial library, wich is also the library used to communicate with a PC. It would be wise to read this carefully: Serial Library.
Regards,
Koen
Additionally, as far as seeing output goes, you don't need an LCD display. Since this operates under the Serial library, you can open a Serial port on the built-in USB connector, as such:
Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX); // tx, rx
And view the results on your PC via a terminal emulator, like PuTTY. I found this page useful, as well:
https://mbed.org/cookbook/Xbee-Pro
You may also want to look up X-CTU for Xbee configuration tools. There are mbed modules to do this, but I found the X-CTU tool more useful.
posted by 28 Mar 2014