API for communicating with XBee devices.

Dependencies:   CircularBuffer FixedLengthList

Dependents:   XBeeApiTest XBeeApiSimpleATCmdsExample XBeeApiBroadcastExample XBeeApiBroadcastExampleRTOS ... more

Overview

XBeeApi is intended to be a library for providing a high-level API interface to the XBee - for example getChannel() and setChannel(2) methods rather than needing to send( "ATCH" ) and send( "ATCH 2" ) - and then de-code the responses.

See the notebook page here for a description of how the API works & some details on the various classes.

Features:

  • Support for transmission & reception of data packets
  • Support for reading & changing settings
  • Support for "Remote AT" interface to access settings & I/O channels on remote XBees
  • XBeeApi should work if you're using mbed-rtos, though it is not currently threadsafe. Take a look at the XBeeApiBroadcastExampleRTOS example if you're including mbed-rtos.

Example Programs

There are also example programs available:

Transmit

Import programXBeeApiSimpleBroadcastExample

Simple example of how to use XBeeApi - set up the XBee, configure P2P networking then transmit a frame.

Import programXBeeApiBroadcastExample

Example for XBeeAPI; a little more involved than XBeeApiSimpleBroadcastExample with report on failure to set up the XBee and on the transmit status of the message.

Import programXBeeApiBroadcastExampleRTOS

Example of using the XBeeApi library to broadcast a message, based on XBeeApiBroadcastExample. This example shows how to use the library when using mbed-rtos. Before compiling you must open "XbeeApi\Config\XBeeApiCfg.hpp" and change the '#if 0' to '#if 1' on the line above the comment reading "Use RTOS features to make XBeeApi threadsafe"

Settings/Status

Import programXBeeApiSimpleATCmdsExample

Simple example of using XBeeApi to send AT-style commands to the XBee

Import programXBeeApiRemoteATCmdsExample

Example of using the XBeeApi library to send AT commands to remote XBee devices in order to read/write settings

Receive

Import programXBeeApiSimpleReceiveExample

Simple example of using XBeeApi to receive data packets via wireless

Import programXBeeApiReceiveCallbackExample

Example of using the XBeeApi library to receive a message via a callback method

Import programXBeeApiReceiveCallbackExampleRTOS

Example of using the XBeeApi library to receive a message via a callback method. This example shows how to use the library when using mbed-rtos. See the comment at the top of main.cpp

Remote I/O

Import programXBeeApiRemoteIOExample

Example of using the XBeeApi library to read inputs on a remote XBee

If you have 2 mbed connected XBees available then you can use XBeeApiSimpleReceiveExample and XBeeApiSimpleBroadcastExample as a pair.

Note that this is still a work in progress! XBeeApiTodoList tracks some of the functionality still to be added.

RXTX/XBeeApiTxFrameEx.hpp

Committer:
johnb
Date:
2014-08-08
Revision:
56:7fe74b03e6b1
Parent:
19:85e5bad7f5a9

File content as of revision 56:7fe74b03e6b1:

/**
   @file
   @brief Class inheriting from XBeeApiTxFrame with some useful but 
          non-essential function.
      
   @author John Bailey 

   @copyright Copyright 2014 John Bailey

   @section LICENSE
   
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

*/

#if !defined XBEEAPITXFRAMEEX_HPP
#define      XBEEAPITXFRAMEEX_HPP

#include "XBeeApiTxFrame.hpp"

#include <stdint.h>

/** Class which extends XBeeApiTxFrame with a number of additional useful
    features.  These features are partitioned within this sub-class so
    that other classes can inherit from XBeeApiTxFrame without also aquiring
    this "baggage".
*/
class XBeeApiTxFrameEx : public XBeeApiTxFrame
{
    protected:
        /** Keep stats on the various TX confirmations received from the XBee */
        uint16_t m_statusCounters[ XBeeApiTxFrame::XBEE_API_TX_STATUS_LAST ];
        
        /** Status of the most recent TX confirmation */
        XBeeApiTxStatus_e m_recent;
        
    public:
        /** Constuctor - see XBeeApiTxFrame constructor */
        XBeeApiTxFrameEx( XBeeDevice* p_device = NULL );
        
        /** Destructor */
        virtual ~XBeeApiTxFrameEx();
        
        /** Callback which is invoked when a response to a TX frame is received.
            The implementation in this class simply updates m_statusCounters to
            keep stats on the result of the TX attempts 
            
            \param p_status The status of the TX attempt */
        virtual void frameTxCallback( const XBeeApiTxStatus_e p_status );
        
        /** Method to retrieve the number of TX attempts which have had the
            specified status result.  Simply an accessor to m_statusCounters.
            
            \param p_status Status to look-up
        */
        uint16_t getStatusCount( const XBeeApiTxStatus_e p_status );
        
        /** Return the most recent status, as informed to the object by a 
            frameTxCallback invokation.  
            
            \returns Most recent TX status.  Will return 
                    XBeeApiTxFrame::XBEE_API_TX_STATUS_LAST in the case that 
                    there have not been any callbacks yet. */
        XBeeApiTxFrame::XBeeApiTxStatus_e getMostRecentStatus( void ) const;
};

#endif