XBee non-responsive
coffeelove
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OK, before i get a bunch of wtf questions, I searched and didn't find an answer and eventually had to come up with it on my own through trial and error.
At some point while I was playing around with the settings and the 0.2 to 0.1 adapter board, I managed to completely kill the firmware that was originally loaded on my XBee Pro 60mW chip board.
After futzing with all the different settings in the PC tabof the X-CTU software, I finally ended up reverting to the defaults of 9600bps, no Flow control, data bits 8, parity of 0 and stop bits of 1. From here, I switched over to the Modem Configuration tab and selected the appropriate HW version that correlated to my chip and left the rest at what popped up. From here, I hit the Write button and found that the XBee has a bootloader built in.
Happy Days!!!
The reprogramming of the chipset took approximately 2 minutes; But afterwards, everything worked according to the XBee Tutorial listing on the product page.
I really don't know what I ( or my children ) had done to the wiring on the breadboard to cause the chip to drop it's firmware, but I thought that this would be a decent subject for anybody else that runs into the same situation of a non responsive XBee on the USB adapter board.
Have a good day/night everybody.
At some point while I was playing around with the settings and the 0.2 to 0.1 adapter board, I managed to completely kill the firmware that was originally loaded on my XBee Pro 60mW chip board.
After futzing with all the different settings in the PC tabof the X-CTU software, I finally ended up reverting to the defaults of 9600bps, no Flow control, data bits 8, parity of 0 and stop bits of 1. From here, I switched over to the Modem Configuration tab and selected the appropriate HW version that correlated to my chip and left the rest at what popped up. From here, I hit the Write button and found that the XBee has a bootloader built in.
Happy Days!!!The reprogramming of the chipset took approximately 2 minutes; But afterwards, everything worked according to the XBee Tutorial listing on the product page.
I really don't know what I ( or my children ) had done to the wiring on the breadboard to cause the chip to drop it's firmware, but I thought that this would be a decent subject for anybody else that runs into the same situation of a non responsive XBee on the USB adapter board.
Have a good day/night everybody.
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