Review on 📡 Waveshare XBee USB Adapter: Convenient UART Communication Board with Onboard Buttons/LEDs for Easy Testing and Programming/Configuration of XBee Modules by Jonathan Unruh

I found a weather balloon in the desert from 2007; and it had an old XBee Pro MaxStream XBP24-AUI-001 - 802.15.4 from 2007. To communicate with it I bought a slightly later version of the same XBee Pro 2010. 10 I first downloaded the drivers from the WaveShare website called "Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge Universal Windows Driver v10.1.10" and ran to install the drivers (BEFORE connecting the board to Windows 10). After connecting the cable (supplied). After installing and running XCTU (version 6.5.5 - 40003026_AD x86-x64). I chose "COM6 Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge". After clicking on the XBee icon in the top left corner with the "+" sign (add radio), it will start searching for the XBee. In my case sometimes I didn't find it - then I asked to press RESET. I pressed RESET and nothing happened. On other occasions he found it. Once found, this session will work just fine. Then the new XBee Pro S1 I bought says XBEE PRO 802.15.4, COM6 - 38400/8/N/1/N - AT and MAC address. Do not do that. ask why it says 38400 baud instead of the 9600 baud it is set to (and is set to on XBee). Maybe the name just indicates the maximum transfer rate (although another user said that 9600 is the maximum transfer rate allowed on this board). When I double click on that name, the XBee options come up. It used to have much older firmware; but I updated the firmware to the latest 10ef for S1 on both XBee Pro to match. LEDs on the WaveShare board. PWR is always red. LED 1 is always red and LED 3 always flashes about half a second apart. Note that a company called DevKits has stated that this board will not work with the XBee Pro S1. They said that twice and said it was only for their own CORE ZBee CORE2530 CC2530F256 ZigBee (although it clearly says it works with XBee). At least for now - besides sometimes not responding to RESET, it can at least be used to update XBee firmware and read parameters. The BOOT button connects GROUND to the REF pin. So if you are applying voltage to this pin to use the ADC on the XBee, be sure to either remove this BOOT switch by spilling solder on the switch terminals, or simply never press it (since this will increase the reference voltage GROUND shorts out if you've done this before. Your ZBee has its own built-in bootloader, so this button is for their specific board. It's true that every XBee may or may not have bootloader capability. Overall, it works pretty well, so I have bought a second board and hope to have a connection between them very soon.They also supply a 40 pin connector and a 40 pin single row connector so you can connect to this board on the bottom for the connector to a breadboard socket across the width Two rows of pins do not leave This indicates the connector socket pins on the bread maker as they are 1,1 inches apart, which is exactly the width between the last pins on the breadboard (hence all jumpers are under the board when plugged into the breadboard). I also cut out the 7 pin connector. a female connector that I soldered to the connector on the end (CTS, RTS, RXD, TXD, GND, 3.3V and 5V) so I can connect these pins to the breadboard. I cut the connectors with a thin circular saw on my Dremel tool. They are not supplied in individual sets of 10.