Nuts and Volts - January 2016

used to control the LED and send commands to SmartThings.

Now that you have your circuit built, you can transfer your XBee Pro from the USB programmer to your new circuit and continue on to the next section about loading the firmware. If you’re using the ZB-LED PCB (Figure 8), make sure you plug in your XBee as shown.

Step 3) Loading the Propeller Firmware.

Load the zB_LedDemoA2.Spin program from the article link and configure the pin assignments for your circuit. If you’re using the ZB-LED PCB, the pin assignments will be correct (Figure 9). Once you have the pins set correctly, save the settings and then load the program (zB_LEDDemoA2.SPIN, also at the article link) to the Propeller’s EEPROM. Bring up the

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Cmd Setting Description

ZS 0x2 Set ZigBee stack to 2

NJ 0x5A Set network join time to 90 seconds EE 0x1 Enable the use of encryption keys EO 0x1 1 = Use trust center to get network key KY 0x5A6967426565416C6C69616E63653039 This is the trust center link key BD 0x7 Set baud rate to 115200