BS2SX, XBee PRO XSC, AT Command set, Errors?

xanatos

Hoping the XBee Xperts on here might shed some light on what I am seeing.· I am verifying the AT command set with the XBee PRO XSC, and I am using the X-CTU application now to test, rather than the BS2s.· The XBee's respond properly to many of the AT Commands, but reply with ERROR on many other - critial - commands.· A few notable examples:

ATCT, DB, ID, RE, RN, RO, RP, SH, SL, ST and VR all respond properly with either an OK or the current value set for that command.· The following all yield ERROR when the command is issued:· ATDH, DL, GT, MY, ND, PO, SP.

The most important item for my application, ATND, is what I need running most.· At the very least I want to be sure that ATND *IS* a valid command for the Series 1 PRO XSCs.... and then to determine why it errors on that command.

Thanks very much for your assistance, it is, as always, truly appreciated.

Dave X

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sylvie369

Using a Series 1 XBee Pro - not XSC -·I get good responses from all of those commands (assuming that by ATPO you mean ATP0 with the digit 0).

You probably knew that already. I don't have an XSC here to test. ·However, looking at Digi's manual for the XSC, I don't see the commands that you're trying unsuccessfully to use:

http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Wireless/Zigbee/XBee-XCS-Manual.pdf

I believe that it's safe to say that you can't run ATND (or any of those other commands that gave you error messages) on the XSC version of the XBee. In at least some cases, there are replacements. For example, instead of ATDH and ATDL there's simply ATDT. ATGT is replaced with separate commands for guard time before (ATBT) and guard time after (ATAT). It looks like ATMY may be replaced with either ATID or ATMK.

There may be a way to mimic ATND, though I don't see it on a quick scan of the manual.


Post Edited (sylvie369) : 8/8/2009 5:59:15 PM GMT

xanatos

Hi Paul,

Yes indeed, I had the wrong command set. What I had was for the regular XBees. The commands I was interested in do not exist in the XSC's command vocabulary, so I will have to do the ND function via some sort of more manual routine as far as I can tell. That ATND would have really been awesome...... alas. If you have a sudden flash of inspiration, feel free to share!

Dave

sylvie369

xanatos said...
Hi Paul,

Yes indeed, I had the wrong command set. What I had was for the regular XBees. The commands I was interested in do not exist in the XSC's command vocabulary, so I will have to do the ND function via some sort of more manual routine as far as I can tell. That ATND would have really been awesome...... alas. If you have a sudden flash of inspiration, feel free to share!

Dave

I'm at least one full step behind you on this - I'm still exclusively using the 2.4GHz XBees, at least until I fly a rocket out of their range. I should know at the end of the month if that's going to happen anytime soon (I hope to put one up to about 3000 feet on a J500). If I can get the range I need with the simple Series 1 XBee Pro (2.4GHz) modules I've already got, I won't be moving to the 900 MHz ones for a while.

Still, I'll keep poking around with them. Have you thought about asking over on Martin Hebel's Yahoo Group (Selmaware)? Those folks seem to be a few steps ahead.

xanatos

Hmmm... didn't even know about that group - I'll sail on over there and check it out... thanks! All I knew about the Selmaware place was the AppBee document which, up till now - contained just about everything I needed to keep me running!

I started with the 900mHz units because I wanted to be sure beyond all doubt that the range I needed would be covered. I hope someday to get a chance to play with the 2.4g units, they seem to have some more useful commands for the types of apps I might want to put them in - at least for the ones where range is no issue.

Thanks again,

Dave