Xbee S6B Serial Communication

XBee & XBee Gateway XBee - WiFi
, , , ,
1

I have a Embedded system with Communication port (CTS,Rx,RTS,TX,GND) working with RS232 at 9600 BD. The micro controller on the system transmits system status messages every 3 seconds, I configured Xbee S6B on Soft AP mode and connected to the communication port of the micro controller.

I am able to connect my phone to Xbee wifi and receive the status messages to my phone(using TCP client serial terminal on phone) but i am not able to transmit data(serial commands custom to micro controller) from my phone to com port.

I have a 5v supply on board so hae to use a regulated chip
First I used Xbee regulted between the micro controller and Xbee board and i was able to connect with phone but received junk data(not readable charecters).

Second, I used Arduino as voltage source then i was able to receive data from micro controller but not transmit.

Did i miss any thing ? why I am not able to transmit the data from phone.

Everything works fine if I use a serial terminal (teraterminal) on Pc Connected to Com port of micro controller using DB9 cable.

anything wrong with signal ground, is it related to half or full duplex

Thanks.

2

You need to use a level shifter between the XBee and the Arduino hardware.

3

i used a xbee regulated insead of arduino module and did not work. what level shifter will you suggest. should i connect arduino–>xbee regulated—>wifi

4

i connected arduino—>parallax adapter—>wifi—> com port of microcontroller. I was able to connect my phone and see the data transmited by xbee on my phone but i was not ablr to transmit anything to xbee

5

That is because you need to use the API interface of the radio and send back the proper packets from your phones software.