XBee Device Auto-Enumeration configuration

Python
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contrary to the example in docs_1.2.19/user/devices/xbee/xbee_devices/autoenum.html the xbee_autoenum device does not need (or want) an extended_address setting.


- name: xbee_autoenum
  driver: devices.xbee.xbee_devices.xbee_autoenum:XBeeAutoEnum
  settings:
      xbee_device_manager: xbee_device_manager
      extended_address: "" <-- no no
      discover_rate: 600
      devices:
          - name: auto_aio
            driver: devices.xbee.xbee_devices.xbee_aio:XBeeAIO
            settings:
                xbee_device_manager: xbee_device_manager
                extended_address: ""
                sample_rate_ms: 900000
                power: On
                sleep: True
                channel1_mode: CurrentLoop
                channel2_mode: CurrentLoop
                channel3_mode: CurrentLoop
                channel4_mode: CurrentLoop
2

You are correct, but I would NOT even include the setting as “”. Just delete that line, plus you do NOT need the xbee_device_manager setting in the ‘devices’, because they inherit this from the ‘xbee_autoenum’ base.

You should look at the sample YML in demos\autoenum\dia.yml

I am doing my own testing of this feature. My experience is that sleeping devices are very hard to ‘auto-enum’ since they have to be awake and in the XBee network list to be detected. Are you finding it works well with your sleeping AIO?

3

I’m not using XBeeAIO (yet), trying to get things going with Sensors and Wall Routers for starters.

I have been having trouble getting the sensors to sleep for the correct amount of time. It turns out that dia wasn’t setting the period multiplier (SN). I wanted 3 minutes, 180000ms = 10 * SP * SN. That was translating to SP=0x30 (48) and SN=0x177 (375), but only SP got set so the sensor only slept 480ms!

Funny thing is that xbee_config_block_sleep.py calculates SN but then neglects to set it. Here’s a patch for xbee_config_block_sleep.py that adds SN to the list of parameters set during sleep configuration:

Index: xbee_config_block_sleep.py

— xbee_config_block_sleep.py (revision 51)
+++ xbee_config_block_sleep.py (working copy)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
for XBee nodes via the :meth:sleep_cycle_set method.
“”"

  • PARAM_ORDER = (‘ST’, ‘SP’, ‘SO’, ‘SM’)

  • PARAM_ORDER = (‘ST’, ‘SP’, ‘SN’, ‘SO’, ‘SM’)

    def init(self, ext_addr):
    self.__parameters = { }

4

Sleeping devices are not ONLY hard to ‘auto-enum’, Sleeping devices hard to be configuring by dia also with static-configuration. When device awake for small time period (about 1s) the device manager unable to send all configuration parameters, the device isn’t go to running state. It is big trouble - dia+Sleeping devices.

5

I am also having trouble with sleeping devices not rejoining the network after the gateway reboots :frowning: Testing this is slow and boring…