Category: XBee

Here’s a program that uses Rob Faludi and Dan Shiffman’s XBee library for processing to read three analog sensors from multiple remote XBee radios and graph them. It also saves the data to a comma-delimited file. It also makes sounds when the value exceeds a given threshold. For this application, you need two or more XBee series 1 radios. One is attached to the serial port of the computer, and the other is remote, broadcasting three analog values.

This also uses the ControlP5 library by Andreas Schlegel and the Ess library by Krister Olsson.

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Here’s a simple program that uses Rob Faludi and Dan Shiffman’s XBee library for processing to read three analog sensors from a remote XBee radio and graph it. For this application, you need two XBee series 1 radios. One is attached to the serial port of the computer, and the other is remote, broadcasting three analog values.

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This Processing program takes a string of values in the serial port. It assumes the string is the API string from a Maxstream XBee radio. It parses the string and graphs the signal strength. See the XBee product manual for more info on the protocol.

The XBee radio in this program is attached to the computer’s serial port using an FTDI USB-to-serial module like this one from Spark Fun.

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This Processing program takes a string of values in the serial port. It assumes the string is the API string from a Maxstream XBee radio. It parses the string and graphs the signal strength and the analog values represented in the string. See the XBee product manual for more info on the protocol.

The XBee radio in this program is attached to the computer’s serial port using an FTDI USB-to-serial module like this one from Spark Fun.

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Working with the Maxstream Xbee radios on OSX can be annoying because the screen program doesn’t print a linefeed automatically when it receives a carriage return. This Processing program works as a serial terminal program, but inserts a linefeed when it gets a carriage return.

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