User guide

BB2-7040 User Guide – Rev. 1.2 Page 34
10 ZigBee Diagnostic Pages
The BB2-7040 contains a Digi International/Maxstream XBee PRO (Ember 250 chip) operating as a coordinator. You
can do a variety of things with the BB2-7040 using API commands for the XBee PRO as found in XBee PRO
documentation at www.digi.com
. You can also find links to applicable documentation on the BB2-7040 product page at
www.csimn.com.
The XBee PRO ZigBee coordinator is programmed to operate in API mode (rather than AT mode) as defined in XBee
PRO documentation. The API mode allows access to a much greater range of capability and is required for BB2-7040
use.
Local API commands are constructed and sent on this page. API commands to remote devices are constructed and sent
from the Remote API page. Local API commands affect the local radio.
The local API frame input window above provides interpretation and translation of ASCII strings for the construction of
raw API packets for transmission. This provides a simple way to create the API version of AT commands.
You may perform a very simple test on the local radio to see if the XBee PRO is responding to commands. the "SL"
command should always succeed since this is simply returning the local device address. Enter "/SL" in the API Frame
window and click Send. The response that appears shortly for API Reply should be something like: 88 03 53 4C 00 40
30 9E C3 where 88 will always be 88, the 03 in this example will be whatever your next frame ID happened to be, the 53
4C should always be 53 4C, and the next 4 bytes will be the low order half of your local 64-bit address. The last byte is
the CRC.
Command interpretation is as follows:
'/' -- results in accepting any number of ASCII alphanumeric characters (0-9,A-Z) with ASCII codes placed in transmit
packet.