Connecting two Xbee Series 1 in API mode

[MarwanShaheen]

Dear all,

I was hoping that someone can help me through this. I have two xbee S1 modules and i want them to chat between each other using terminal program. however they need to be set in API mode (API mode 2 would be better) because i was unable to set them to chat between each other when i put the settings:

PAN ID: 1111
coordinator MY: 1234
end device MY: 5678

API mode: 2

Baud rate: 9600 both sides

i have put destination addresses of each other : coordinator destination address: 5678, end device destination add: 1234

your help would be so awesome

[robosang]

Why need to be in API2??

Normal transparent mode is good enough for serial communication.

[MarwanShaheen]

That's because i needed to retrieve the RSSI value from the packets. the value is presented better by API mode formatted packet.

I got it working after all thank you for replying.