Digi XBee 3 User Manual

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Add the time the button was pressed
After you add the ability to send an SMS to the code, add functionality to insert the time at which the
button was pressed into the SMS that is sent. To accomplish this:
1. Create a UDP socket with the socket() method.
2. Save the IP address and port of the time server in the addr variable.
3. Connect to the time server with the connect() method.
4. Send hello to the server to prompt it to respond with the current date and time.
5. Receive and store the date/time response in the buf variable.
6. Send an SMSin the same manner as before using the sms_send() method, except that you add
the time into the SMS message, such that the message reads: [Button pressed at: YYYY-MM-
DD HH:MM:SS]
To verify that your phone number is still in the memory, at the MicroPython >>> prompt, type ph and
press Enter.
If MicroPython responds with your number, copy the following code and enter it into MicroPython
using paste mode and then run it. If it returns an error, enter your number again as shown in Send a
text (SMS) when the button is pressed. With your phone number in memory in the ph variable, copy
the code below and enter it into MicroPython using paste mode (Ctrl+E) and then run it.
from machine import Pin
import network
import usocket
import time
c = network.Cellular()
dio0 = Pin("D0", Pin.IN, Pin.PULL_UP)
while not c.isconnected(): # While no network connection.
print("Waiting for connection to cell network...")
time.sleep(5)
print("Connected.")
# Give feedback to inform user a button press is needed.
print("Waiting for SW2 press...")
while (1):
if (dio0.value() == 0):
# When button pressed, now the module will send "Button Press" AND
# the time at which it was pressed in an SMS message to the given
# target cell phone number.
socketObject = usocket.socket(usocket.AF_INET, usocket.SOCK_DGRAM)
# Connect the socket object to the web server specified in
"address".
addr = ("52.43.121.77", 10002)
socketObject.connect(addr)
bytessent = socketObject.send("hello")
print("Sent %d bytes on socket" % bytessent)
buf = socketObject.recv(1024)
# Send message to the given number. Handle error if it occurs.
try:
c.sms_send(ph, 'Button Pressed at: ' + str(buf))
print("Sent SMS successfully.")
except OSError:
print("ERROR- failed to send SMS.")
# Exit the WHILE loop.
break

Digi XBee 3 Specifications

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Brand	Digi
Model	XBee 3
Category	Modem
Language	English