Remote At Command: Remotely Configure An Xbee Module - Digi XBee Zigbee Mesh Kit User Manual

XBee API mode
1. The intelligent device (host) sends a Transmit Request (0x10) or an Explicit Addressing
Command Frame (0x11) to XBee A through the serial input to transmit data to XBee B.
2. XBee A wirelessly transmits the data in the frame to the module configured as destination in
the same frame; in this case, the destination is XBee B.
3. The remote XBee B module receives the wireless data and sends out through the serial output
a Receive Packet (0x90) or an Explicit Rx Indicator (0x91), depending on the value of API
Options (AO) setting. These frames contain the data received over the air and the source
address of the XBee module that transmitted it, in this case XBee A.
4. The remote XBee B module transmits a wireless acknowledge packet with the status to the
sender, XBee A.
5. The sender XBee A module sends out a Transmit Status (0x8B) through its serial output with
the status of the transmission to XBee B.
The Transmit Status (0x8B) frame is always sent at the end of a wireless data transmission unless the
frame ID is set to '0' in the transmit request. If the packet cannot be delivered to the destination, the
transmit status frame will indicate the cause of failure.
To send data using an explicit frame:
The source and destination endpoints must be E8.
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The cluster ID must be 0011.
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The profile ID must be C105.
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To receive an explicit frame, the API Options (AO) parameter must be configured to API Explicit Rx
Indicator - 0x91 [1]. If this setting is API Rx Indicator - 0x90 [0], a Receive Packet (0x90) will be
received instead of an Explicit Rx Indicator (0x91).

Remote AT Command: Remotely configure an XBee module

Working in API mode also allows you to configure remote XBee modules wirelessly. Any AT command
or parameter that can be issued locally can also be sent wirelessly for execution on a remote XBee
module.
The following image shows the API frame exchanges that take place at the serial interface when
sending a Remote AT Command Request (0x17) to remotely read or set an XBee parameter.
XBee® Zigbee® Mesh Kit
XBee frame exchange
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