Digi XBee® 3 Zigbee® RF Module
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Serial communication
Serial interface 59
UART data flow 59
Serial data 59
Serial buffers 60
Serial receive buffer 60
Serial transmit buffer 61
UART flow control 61
CTS flow control 61
RTS flow control 61
Break control 61
I2C 61
SPI operation
SPI communications 63
Full duplex operation 64
Low power operation 64
Select the SPI port 65
Force UART operation 66
Modes
Transparent operating mode 68
Serial-to-RF packetization 68
API operating mode 68
Command mode 68
Enter Command mode 69
Troubleshooting 69
Send AT commands 69
Response to AT commands 70
Apply command changes 70
Make command changes permanent 70
Exit Command mode 70
Idle mode 71
Transmit mode 71
Receive mode 72
Sleep mode 72
Zigbee networks
The Zigbee specification 74
Zigbee stack layers 74
Zigbee networking concepts 75
Device types 75
PAN ID 77
Operating channels 77
Zigbee application layers: in depth 78
Application Support Sublayer (APS) 78
Application profiles 78
Zigbee coordinator operation 80
Form a network 80