# New to XBee - Please help! **URL:** \ **Category:** XBee - Zigbee\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/new-to-xbee-please-help/680 "2011-04-20T04:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![czyskows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@czyskows](https://forums.digi.com/u/czyskows)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/new-to-xbee-please-help/680/1 "2011-04-20T04:19:08Z")
Hi, I just got an XBee S1 and XBee Pro S1 with the XBee Exlorer. I have tried to set them up to send/receive from each other, but to no avail. I’ve used Tom Igoe’s Processing Serial Terminal as well as XBee Terminal Max. I can send and receive AT messages to both XBees this way, but when I take the XBee off the Explorer, they seem to lose their settings; when I put them back on the Explorer, their ATID, ATMY, etc, have all gone back to the factory settings. Can anyone tell me if there’s a step I’m missing or something? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kalbun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kalbun](https://forums.digi.com/u/kalbun)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/new-to-xbee-please-help/680/2 "2011-04-20T17:49:53Z")
Did you remember to send an ATWR to save the AT commands issued to modules? If you don’t do so, changes are lost at reset ---
**Author:** ![johnf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@johnf](https://forums.digi.com/u/johnf)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/new-to-xbee-please-help/680/3 "2011-04-20T22:58:04Z")
You’ve posted this in the ZB forum, yet you seem to say your XBees are series 1 (S1). If your’e running series 1 XBees, you’ll be better off in the 802.15.4 or the Digimesh forum, depending on which firmware version you have loaded.