Can the Xbee do....

[codejoy]

I have a simple setup. I want to take the cheap paralax PIR sensor and hook it up to an xbee. and have it tell my arduino on the base station/receive side when the motion is detected and what sensor detects it.

I have no clue where to start. My biggest question is looks like a lot of configuration is required to get these xbees up and running. is that true? and does their software that I saw here:
http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/configure.html
Is that all necessary? I heard its easy to make something wireless directly using something called remote command mode? the idea is i want these sensors to be able to connect up to a network of each other and communicate with a base station. I want me to be able to do the configuration programatically from my own code. If this is possible I would like some ideas where to start looking on the how.

but just not even sure if what I want is possible.

Thanks anyone who reads this and helps...

Shane

[adafruit]

yes you need to spend the time and learn how to configure the xbees. but they can certainly do a remote PIR sensor

[codejoy]

I guess thats my next question. Can the configuration be widdled down into something that perhaps would be easy for an end user? Very plug in play (They buy a new sensor, turn it on and automatically its added to the network and perhaps an external configuration program I write can easily set it up for them?)

Or is the configuration of an xbee done using proprietary software, libraries, apis?

[adafruit]

its not completely plug and play. please read the comprehensive xbee tutorials we put up for how to configure them, also the datasheet will be handy.