XBee, SimpleIE and PropC

jblively

Hello,

I've been able to use the XBee successfully with SPIN to communicate from the computer to the PropC Activity Board. However, I can't seem to find an example of it working in the C language to use within SimpleIDE. Does anyone have any tips for XBee (Series 1) communication using SimpleIDE and the C language.

Thanks,

J

jblively

Bump. Does anyone have any ideas or couple point me to an example where XBee is used with C and SimpleIDE for the Propeller chip on the Propeller Activity Board.

Thanks,

J

dgately

J,

Look in this thread for some ideas... http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/145335-Issue-with-XBee-AT-command-mode-with-PropGCC-FDS

Not sure if you intend to use AT commands, but this should provide an example of how to communicate to the XBee in C.


dgately

Charlie Johnson

Here is some simple working code. I am using the simpleIDE Terminal to display the remote XBee sent text.

#include "simpletools.h" // Include simpletools

int main() // main function
{
  int rx_pin = 0;   // XBee DO
  int tx_pin = 1;   // XBee DI
  int mode = 0;     // Unused
  int baud = 9600;  // Default Xbee baud rate
  serial *xb;       // Pointer to text_t structure

  xb = serial_open(rx_pin, tx_pin, mode, baud);   // Open up a serial driver

  pause(1000);    
  writeLine(xb, "Is this thing on?");   // Look at simpletext.h for all the functions supported.
  serial_close(xb);   // Close the serial driver
}

jblively

Thank you both. I'll be able to test it out this weekend and i'll post back with my results.