Purpose of reset button on XBee modules

XBee & XBee Gateway XBee - Zigbee
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Hi;

What does this mean:

“Reset button: Recessed button on underside of the adapter. Performs equivalent of a power-cycle.”

What does a power-cycle do to an XBee module’s configuration and how does it differ from pressing (multiple presses) the iDENT button?

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Hi,

Pressing the Reset button for the XBee modules on XBIB boards is equivqlent to the power-cycle.

Please refer the page number 13 of the following document “http://ftp1.digi.com/support/documentation/90000891_E.pdf”, which describes Commissioning and identity behaviors of different XBee modules.

Regards!

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Reset is just a reset. Depending on your XBee settings, it may have no impact. It is certainly NOT like the Ident button, and it never does a ‘factory reset’.

If your adapter is an end-device, it will still assume it can rejoin the previous parent.

If your adapter is a router and JV=0, then it acts much like end-device - it resets but assumes it’s old associate peers still exist. If JV=1, then it confirms it can locate a coordinator and changes channels if required to find one.