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XBee I/O

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I see that the Xbee is paired with Arduino and the like. Since it has its own I/O, can't it operate on its own as an input devise.

All I want to do is read when a few switches close and send to something like Google cloud so I can chart them.

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Re: XBee I/O

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Totally, yeah. Look up Digital I/O Line Passing in the XBee datasheet. There's a little info here:
http://www.digi.com/support/kbase/kbase ... tl?id=2188
This is -really- fussy to set up right. Two of the pins don't have internal pull-up resistors available, and certain configuration bitmasks aren't in the same order as the pin numbers. When it works, it's pretty magical. When it doesn't, it's a bag of hurt.

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Re: XBee I/O

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So what would be the best sollution. A couple of other solutions I was looking at:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/in ... -xbee-wifi

I was also looking at Sparkcore. https://www.spark.io/dev-kits

http://www.digi.com/products/wireless-w ... xbee-wi-fi

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Re: XBee I/O

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rkonnen wrote:So what would be the best sollution. A couple of other solutions I was looking at:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/in ... -xbee-wifi

I was also looking at Sparkcore. https://www.spark.io/dev-kits

http://www.digi.com/products/wireless-w ... xbee-wi-fi
If you want multiple end devices sending data then multiple xbee-wifi modules will require a wireless AP - unless you pair them but that does not sound like your use case..
If you are not operating in a WLAN then you could use the RF XBees.

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