I read your tutorial on setting up the Squidbee mote and gateway to successfully communicate with each other.

http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/ ... ee-gateway

I just have a few concerns...

-The tutorial didn't show how the XBee modules are configured. I know they are preconfigured to work on point-to-multipoint but demonstration would still be helpful.

-The tutorial only showed 2 Squidbees communicating. How about if there are two motes sending data to gateway. How will that be displayed to the serial monitor?

-It would be nice if the tutorial show how one mote will be configured differently from the other motes. I know that network layer configuration (XBee) and application layer configuration (Arduino) will be different with all the motes but it is nicer if we understand the details.

Hi vanick0818,

The XBee's in SquidBee are in transparent mode, that's the easiest way to communicate the SquidBee's. The only parameter changed is baudrate, (set to 19200 bps BD4). Anyway with X-CTU it's very easy to change the XBee parameters.

If there are more SquidBee's, you'll see all the data in the monitor, as all SquidBee's are similar programmed, you should change the program, using a different id to any SquidBee.

It's very easy, using Arduino IDE and the code in the tutorial, you can change that program as you need.

regards

Thanks. I already know the parameters to modify.

XBee Gateway:
MY = 0
DL = FFFF (Broadcast)

XBee Motes:
MY = 1, 2, ... N (0 is for gateway)
DL = 0 (to the gateway)

Arduino:
change x in the function to correspond the the MY of the mote
x = 1, 2, ... N

sendData(x,count,val0,val1,val2);