Quote Originally Posted by Ioannis View Post
From Digi I got an answer on the matter:

"...If you would like to support a Mesh based network with the existing 802.15.4 modules, you will need to install the Digi Mesh firmware instead. These versions of the code can be found under the XB24-DM and XBP24-DM modem types. Please note that analog to digital conversion and DIO line passing is currently not supported in the Digi Mesh firmware. However it may be added in future releases."

So, the 802.15.4 modules can do a mesh network in a diffrent way.

I will post some examples when I have success on this.

Ioannis

I've wasted about 5 weeks of project time by trying to get zigbee working. I first of all used a Rabbit/zigbee devkit, which contasins the series 1 modules I think you also have. Despite saying Zigbee on the box, the Digi modules could not do zigbee.

Series 2 modules, and the zigbee pro devices can, however.

I replaced the Rabbit kit with a CYAN kit, and after 1 week got in touch with them about some problems. They told me that their datasheet was wrong and their product couldn't support zigbee wirless as well as an SD card...

I now have some Ember EM250 modules, and have loaded the latest R313 firmware which has zigbee pro support, and mesh networking upto a limited number of hops.

I have been on the microchip web boards, specifically the zigbee one, and it seems that lots of people are unhappy because of the fact that zigbee has grown so large and it is still difficult to find two different manufacturers with so called zigbee products which are interoperable, because a large number of firms choose to opt for private operation profiles. To that end, one keen guy is reworking a 6LowPAN stack to use the very cheap microchip radios.

6LowPAN is and IPV6 ready protocol which can give every networked device it's own address, but more importantly it offers seamless tcp/ip transmission across it's mesh system so there is no translation required when bridging a 6lopan wireless net to a wifi net or an ethernet-net