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ZigBee Updates for January

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XBee Series 2

A few interesting developments have happened over the holidays with XBee radios.

  1. The company (formerly known as Maxstream) has rebranded the radios (formerly known as the XBee Series 2). From now on you’ll be calling them the Digi XBee ZNet 2.5.
  2. The XBee ZNet 2.5 name coincides with brand new firmware. This update includes bug fixes and most importantly, automated transmission of I/O readings from the analog and digital input pins. The firmware isn’t posted on their site yet, and it isn’t documented. If you’re at ITP, ask me for the 1×40 files. Otherwise, talk to Digi support.
  3. I’m working on a version of the XBee library for Processing to parse the undocumented ZNet I/O packets. That will get posted here once I feel that it’s working.
  4. We were able to get XBees running off of an unregulated rechargeable coin cell. The Lithium-ion 2450 works for about an hour in my tests, without sleeping the radios at all.

More to come…