Did you buy from Amazon.ca?
Ended up grabbing them from Canadian tire. Was more worried about the two different model numbers so act CanTire was able to verify they were the "working" model before buying.
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Were you ever able to get the Xbee to scan the sylvania plugs and see the end devices connected to them?
If so what did you change to to see them? Wondering what the issue was.
I can still see my end devices connected to my sylvania plug after a number of scans but never on every scan.
Hopefully Xiaomi comes to north america huge price difference will drive others to lower their prices.
Yes. Eventually. It takes hours for some reason though. So I would turn on the scan and leave it and 4 hours later I would look and it would show. Anything connected directly to the xbee or hub showed up right away. The other strange thing is that it would not show the two way link quality on most of the devices. But in the end I got an idea of my network setup so I worked with it.
what are these for?
thank you.
only for future development if someone wants to try make something like a high powered arrival/presence sensor. You would not want router settings if the device was coming and going.
I am going to try if I have any free time (working 50 hours overtime at work this week)
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ahh ... got it. thank you.
what we need to do is convince @mike.maxwell to build a driver for the xbee. it would be good to be able to see which devices are routing through it or not.
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@NoWon I'm not in a rush. Would this XBee USB Adapter S2 2m with Bluetooth Bee FT232RL board work with this Xbee Zigbee module?
never tried that but reading the description it says it will work as long as it's powered of course. Never used Bluetooth for much but pretty cheap to test out. If it doesn't work at the very least you would likely end up with a cheap USB power adapter for an Xbee.
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Made some changes based on another thread about xbee and it looks like my device is working much better now. Here is my device/settings info in case anybody else has the same one to work with. After about 20 minutes all of my devices, including anything attached to my sylvania plugs, are showing up properly. Hopefully this will help somebody else.
Product Family: XBP24C
Function set: Zigbee TH Pro
Firmware version: 4060
ZS=2
JV=Enabled [1]
NI=Device 1
NH=30
AR=0
DD=3000C
NO=3
EE=Enabled [1]
EO=1
KY=
BD=115200 [7]
AP=API enabled with escaping [2]
AO=Explicit+ZDO [7]
SP=130
SN=AF0
D8=Disabled [0]
D9=Disabled [0]
Links to my devices are below.
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damn sorry my AO setting was 3 not 1
Not sure how I changed it to 1.
I originally had it set to 7 as other xbee users had and it worked but I could not find any documentation for setting it to 7.
from the manual:
AO (API Options)
Configure the serial output options for received API frames. The current options select the type of
receive API frame to send out the UART for received RF data packets.
Leave unused bits clear so future API options are not inadvertently enabled during a firmware update.
Bit field
Parameter Description
0 0 = Native API output (0x90 frame type).
1 = Explicit API output (0x91 frame type).
AT commands Serial interfacing commands
XBee3® Zigbee® RF Module User Guide 166
Parameter Description
1 Unsupported ZDO request pass-through.
2 Supported ZDO request pass-through.
3 Binding request pass-through.
No worries. No idea what half the settings do, even after reading them, but I thought I would post my hardware configuration and software settings in case they are specific. All 54 of my nodes are showing up now and I even see them jump from one router to another every now and then. Got a clear visual of my mapping.
The only thing I don't see is the two way link quality. From the hub or the xbee I can see 1 way quality only and from the plugs I don't see either way link quality. But that is no big deal as they are all good anyways.
Thanks. True, why not try it at that price?
Was just going to place and order for one of these for delivery (whenever), but will this non-pro version work? Is there an advantage I'll be missing or need with the pro version?
I ordered a bluetooth usb board to try it out but will take awhile to get here. It looked interesting.
non pro version will work fine I believe the only difference is they are lower transmit power rating so not the 2 mile range but still plenty for a house and of course since it has a lower power rating it will use less power so if you use a battery to power it then it will last longer. If you just plug it into a house outlet then the power consumption will not matter.
The pro version is not allowed in Europe due to their high transmitting power.
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Same here 
Thanks for this. I'll get my order in the queue. Not a big deal if it doesn't have the higher power rating. So far, I don't actually need these. All the Xiaomi devices are behaving, I'm sure because of the close distance, and the fact that I only have 14 Zigbee devices paired directly to HE. Never hurts to have at least one repeater, and this sounds like it's about the best type I can add. Xiaomi Motion Sensor number two is on order. I'm obsessed with these beautifully designed little devices, so I'm sure I'm going to be glad I have that repeater in place at some point. Or best case scenario, I'll never even notice, because everything will just work.
Primarily, I'm interested in the network topology, and this seems like the most useful of ways to learn more about it. I really appreciate your dedication to this, your advice, and your insights.
I am also having great luck with the Xiaomi stuff. So much so, I ordered 8 moisture sensors last week, which will put me over the zigbee direct connect limit. Digi has a 3-pack dev kit for around $90 US, if you can find them. It comes with a Grove dev boards, Xbee modules, and micro usb cords. Sales person told me they’ve seen a run on these lately (I wonder why?) Mines on back order.
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are these values swapped?
@NoWon @gavincampbell updated the settings then tried to rediscover the module with xctu but getting this:
using these devices:
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/888-XBP24CZ7SIT-004
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/426-DFR0050
how does one reset this module ... dont see a accessible button anywhere.
thank you.
edit: had to change baud rate to 115200 in the add radio module window. leaving this up just in case someone else runs in to this.
