Modifying relay control with xbee

[ddn]

A couple years ago I built the relay control xbee setup described here http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/04/21 ... ol-relays/

Now I'd like to modify it so that I can toggle the state of the remote relay via USB/serial instead of requiring a hardware button press (which I was using a parallel port for before).

But I've banged my head for hours and can't figure out how to either send a remote command, or to get the state of the local USB xbee to pass to the remote.

I'd appreciate any guidance.

[adafruit_support_rick]

can you post your code?

[ddn]

can you post your code?

I've just been using X-CTU to send API command requests. ie:

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[adafruit_support_rick]

Oh, OK. So you still want to control the thing from Windows, not a microcontroller.

[ddn]

Actually, from a Linux machine. But I reasoned that once I figured out how they needed to be configured and what the right commands to send were, I could use Python or C to accomplish the same thing.

[adafruit_support_bill]

Rob Faludi has a Processing API for XBees. You might want to check out his book too.