Digi International Inc. / Mbed 2 deprecated XBeeZB_power_mngmnt_cyclic_sleep

ZigBee Power Management using Cyclic Sleep example for mbed XBeeLib By Digi

Dependencies:   XBeeLib mbed

Description

This example characterizes a device that needs to be continuously joined to the coordinator so it doesn't lose any incoming packets. A fast response to packets is not required so the radio can sleep for some time to save power while the coordinator buffers its packets.

The example configures the radio to poll its coordinator every 5 seconds to check if there is any packet for it. If there is one or more, it awakes and send the packets to the mbed micro-controller.

Setup

Firmware

In S2B modules, router firmware will not work for this example, because routers don't support sleep modes.
Make sure the XBee module has end-device firmware.
To flash new firmware into an XBee module, you need to use the XCTU software.

Network

Make sure the coordinator has at Cyclic Sleep Period (SP) option a value greater than XBee module.
In the example it is set to 5000 which represent 5000 mS or 5 seconds.
In the coordinator, when using X-CTU for configuration, the SP parameter has to be entered as the desired sleep time divided by 10 and in hexadecimal so to cope with the example it should be 5000 / 10 = 500 = 0x1F4 -> 1F4
On a router or coordinator, SP determines the transmission timeout when sending to a sleeping end device. SP also determines how long the parent will buffer a message for a sleeping child.

Demo run

While it is running, go to the "Console" tab of the X-CTU connected to the coordinator. Press the "Add API frame to the list" and paste following bytes that create a new broadcast transmit request packet:

7E 00 19 10 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FE 00 00 48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 58 42 65 65 21 5A

Select the frame and press the "Send selected frame" button to send the frame ("Hello XBee!") to the XBee network.

Once the XBee device receives the frame, the radio will wake up to send it to mbed micro-controller, which will process and print the received data.

Verify that the XBee module has received the frame by accessing the serial console terminal. If it was successful, the "Hello XBee!" message will be displayed there.

After that, the radio will go to sleep again until new data is received.

config.h

Committer:
hbujanda
Date:
2016-07-29
Revision:
7:fe3aee4d263a
Parent:
4:378daca584ef

File content as of revision 7:fe3aee4d263a:

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#ifndef __CONFIG_H_
#define __CONFIG_H_

/** Library configuration options */
#define ENABLE_LOGGING
#define ENABLE_ASSERTIONS
#define FRAME_BUFFER_SIZE           4
#define MAX_FRAME_PAYLOAD_LEN       128

#define SYNC_OPS_TIMEOUT_MS         2000

//#define RADIO_TX                NC /* TODO: specify your setup's Serial TX pin connected to the XBee module DIN pin */
//#define RADIO_RX                NC /* TODO: specify your setup's Serial RX pin connected to the XBee module DOUT pin */
//#define RADIO_RTS               NC /* TODO: specify your setup's Serial RTS# pin connected to the XBee module RTS# pin */
//#define RADIO_CTS               NC /* TODO: specify your setup's Serial CTS# pin connected to the XBee module CTS# pin */
//#define RADIO_RESET             NC /* TODO: specify your setup's GPIO (output) connected to the XBee module's reset pin */
//#define RADIO_SLEEP_REQ         NC /* TODO: specify your setup's GPIO (output) connected to the XBee module's SLEEP_RQ pin */
//#define RADIO_ON_SLEEP          NC /* TODO: specify your setup's GPIO (input) connected to the XBee module's ON_SLEEP pin */
//#define DEBUG_TX                NC /* TODO: specify your setup's Serial TX for debugging */
//#define DEBUG_RX                NC /* TODO: specify your setup's Serial RX for debugging (optional) */

#if !defined(RADIO_TX)
    #error "Please define RADIO_TX pin"
#endif

#if !defined(RADIO_RX)
    #error "Please define RADIO_RX pin"
#endif

#if !defined(RADIO_RESET)
    #define RADIO_RESET             NC
    #warning "RADIO_RESET not defined, defaulted to 'NC'"
#endif

#if defined(ENABLE_LOGGING)
    #if !defined(DEBUG_TX)
        #error "Please define DEBUG_TX"
    #endif
    #if !defined(DEBUG_RX)
        #define DEBUG_RX                NC
        #warning "DEBUG_RX not defined, defaulted to 'NC'"
    #endif
#endif

#endif /* __CONFIG_H_ */