Out of the box, xbees are set to operate at 9600 baud, transmit to address 0, and receive on address 0. You can use them as serial extenders right away.
If you want to control where data goes - say from xbee 1 to xbee 2 but not to xbee 3, then you need to do a little configuration work (but it's pretty easy).
It also brings out the pings to an easier to use .100" spacing.
You should also pickup one of the USB adapter boards since that makes it easy to configure the modules using the X-CTU config program as already mentioned.
PJAllen
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http://www.parallax.com/go/XBee#downloads
http://www.parallax.com/portals/0/downloads/docs/prod/book/122-32450-XBeeTutorial-v1.0.pdf
Out of the box, xbees are set to operate at 9600 baud, transmit to address 0, and receive on address 0. You can use them as serial extenders right away.
If you want to control where data goes - say from xbee 1 to xbee 2 but not to xbee 3, then you need to do a little configuration work (but it's pretty easy).
Quite true: they are. Of course, if you're expecting more than the standard options you're going to have to read a bit further.
> I'm asking because... I don't want to buy the book.
You don't have to buy the book, It's free.
You just have to read it :-)
It makes reconfiguring the Xbees using X-CTU very easy.
http://www.parallax.com/StoreSearchResults/tabid/768/txtSearch/xbee/List/0/SortField/4/ProductID/643/Default.aspx
Massimo
If you need to use the XBee with 5V then the easiest way is with this adapter board from Parallax:
http://www.parallax.com/Store/Accessories/CommunicationRF/tabid/161/CategoryID/36/List/0/SortField/0/catpageindex/2/Level/a/ProductID/664/Default.aspx
It also brings out the pings to an easier to use .100" spacing.
You should also pickup one of the USB adapter boards since that makes it easy to configure the modules using the X-CTU config program as already mentioned.
Robert
Martin Hebel