Hello,
I’m running antenna A/B comparisons using the XCTU Tools → Range Test with Cluster ID 0x12 (Loopback) between two XBee-PRO 900HP modules (DigiMesh firmware). The Range Test tool itself is genuinely excellent; pairing detection, real-time bidirectional RSSI plotting, percentage indicator, clean PNG export of the graph. It would honestly become our standard RF tool whenever we’re using XBee modules, except for one missing piece.
What I’d like to do: for documentation and post-test analysis, I want the numeric data behind the graph - per-packet timestamp, local RSSI, remote RSSI, success/failure flag — exportable to CSV (or any structured text format). Right now I’m reading values off the graph by eye and writing them down manually, which limits how rigorously we can compare antennas, cables, distances, and orientations.
What I’ve tried:
- Looked through the Range Test toolbar — only “Save graph as image” (PNG) and Start/Stop are visible
- Right-clicked on the graph and the data panel — no export option
- Searched XCTU menus — couldn’t find an export-to-CSV anywhere
- Read the XCTU User Guide section on Range Test
Did I miss it? Is there a hidden setting, command-line flag, or workaround that exposes the per-packet data?
If this feature doesn’t exist in current XCTU, two suggestions for a future release that would make this tool even more powerful:
- CSV export of the per-packet data — timestamp, local RSSI, remote RSSI, success flag — for analysis in Excel / Python / MATLAB
- Run statistics summary displayed at the end of (or alongside) the test — mean RSSI (local + remote), standard deviation, min/max RSSI, total PER, packet success count. This would be amazing for quick visual reading of whether one configuration is better than another without exporting at all
Together those two additions would turn an already-very-good tool into the de-facto bench standard for XBee link-quality testing.
XCTU version: 6.5.13, Build ID: 20230602-2
OS: Windows 11
Thanks in advance for any guidance.