Xbee socket communication between two ZB modules

Question

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to communicate two xbee ZB modules, in API mode, by implementing DIGI's xbee socket extension (actually, I don't know if it's really possible)

So, first part of my python code goes like this:

import xbee
from socket import*
sd = socket(AF_ZIGBEE, SOCK_DGRAM, ZBS_PROT_TRANSPORT)

which obviously fails (error: name 'AF_ZIGBEE' is not defined) because I don't have the socket.AF_ZIGBEE module.

So my question is, how do I install this module?

Thanks

Answer 1

The code you are working with is designed to run on an XBee gateway. Are you working with an XBee gateway? If not, then you need to take a step back and start by declaring a port.

Answer 2

Hello mvut

No, I'm working with two xbee zb s2c modules. I think I've made some advances:

1.- I installed zigbee.py module from ftp://ftp1.digi.com/support/sampleapplications/zigbee_py-for-PC.zip
2.- Then I modified the python socket library following the instruction in this post: http://www.digi.com/support/forum/46719/why-do-i-get-a-nameerror-name-af_xbee-is-not-defined
3.- Finally, I managed to send data using the Send “Hello, World!” example in http://www.digi.com/wiki/developer/index.php/XBee_Extensions_to_the_Python_socket_API. I used minicom to read the data.

My main problem now is that I can't receive the data using the Reading and Writing example of the previous page. The socket doesn't detect data coming from the serial ports.

Any ideas?