The software so far is pretty much usable. That is, it receives data from XBee nodes and logs it to a file. However, at the moment, my test node sends data every second which is too frequent and I need an easy way of controlling this behaviour.
One way would be to physically plug it into an XBee Explorer and configure it directly. However, this is a bit of a clumsy time consuming thing to do and also risks damaging these little devices. Sending commands via wireless would be much better so that's what I'm now working on. Of course, when I've done that I've then got not just a logging system but a control system as well!
The work is nearly finished and the commands seem to be accepted by the local XBee software for transmission. What I must do now is include a means of confirming that the commands have been acknowledged by the remote node.
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