interfacing xbee modules with external device

[meme]

Hi
i’m a beginner and need some major help PLEASE!

i have the drop in networking professional development kit (ConnectPort X2 Gateway, USB interface Board, 2 RS232 interface boards and 1 Xbee wall router) and i am trying to interface it with a gas sensor. The gas sensor has a RS232 serial port which i have connected to one of the Xbee RS232 interface boards. I’ve set the gas sensor to constantly send out a single gas measurement and i want to be able to see this on my screen. Can someone tell me what i should do next? Someone told me this should happen automatically but i’m not sure if i have to create a python program and upload it to the gateway in order to do this? If so, can someone give me an idea of how i can start this program? I’ve never done python before. Sorry!

[simakas]

hi,

start with example applications provided on cd.
the simple plan is:

• check demo application with wall router sensors
• check sample code on Digi Wiki, how to get nodelist of your ZB network. http://www.digi.com/support/forum/thread.jspa?forumID=104&threadID=4893&messageID=51301#51301
• write python code (approx 10 lines) to get your node’s rs232 data vector (im looking for it, something like: payload, src_addr = sd.recvfrom(72), where sd is open socket)
• upload python code to gateway, execute it in telnet or ssh shell
• call your code from web (optional) http://www.digi.com/wiki/developer/index.php/Python_inside_HTML

Simon