UDOO + Xbee

Hi

I'm begining a project that needs a Xbee shield.

I see that UDOO has the Arduino DUE's ARM, and i found a Xbee shield compatible with Arduino DUE.

http://www.rhydolabz.com/index.php?main ... ts_id=1124

I need to know if that shield with work with UDOO.


Thanks

 

It should be compatible with any shield which works on the Arduino DUE.

 

Hi again,

I bought the shield but i'm having problems.
When i power up UDOO with the shield on, the UDOO simply don't start.
When i put the shield on when UDOO is already powered up it freezes and i can't do anything anymore, just plug out the power.

Can you help me on this?

Thx

 

Sounds like a power problem.
Try monitoring the 5 and 3.3 volt outputs while it`s booting

 

Thx!
You were right,

With the shield on, the 3.3volt and IOREF pins are both at 5 volts. :s
What do you suggest me to do?

 

The Xbee`s data lines are not 5 volt torrent , so on normal 5 volt avr arduino you need to fit a voltage divider ( level shifter ) to drop the voltage down to 3.3 volt.
On the udoo / due is should be very much simpler because the due is design for 3.3 volt, so you should be able just to connect up the data lines without any level shifting .
The only 5 volt you should see on the shied is for its own 5 volt to 3.3 volt regulator.

Sound like it needs some configuration

 

Thanks for the answer, you were right, i just needed to put the shield in 3.3 Volt mode.

Now i'm with other problem :\. I can't get Xbee to work properly. I tried to use arduino xbee library (https://code.google.com/p/xbee-arduino/) and python xbee library (https://code.google.com/p/python-xbee/) but seems i cant communicate with the xbee module on UDOO. For example, simply executing the following code with the python xbee library i should got an answer with the module ID. Instead the program don't receive any answer and just keeps waiting for something to be returned from the xbee module.

Code:

from xbee import XBee
from serial import Serial

PORT = '/dev/ttymxc3'
BAUD = 9600

ser = Serial(PORT, BAUD)

xbee = XBee(ser)

xbee.at(frame_id='A', command='MY')
reply = xbee.wait_read_frame()
print(reply)

This seems i cant communicate with the Xbee module :\
The API is enabled an i got an Arduino UNO i can do this without problems with the same shield and Xbee s1 module configuration.

Thx