Interaction between widgets and the XBee Zigbee development board

The following example shows how the dashboard for the XBee Zigbee Cloud Kit web application and your development board interact with one another. You can try widget functions on the development board and observe the results using the XBee Zigbee Cloud Kit web application.

This example assumes you are signed in to the XBee Zigbee Cloud Kit web application. For instructions, see Log onto the XBee Zigbee Cloud Kit web application.

Note For information about the development board components, see Development board components.

1. On the development board, press and hold the User Button. Observe how the User Button widget on the dashboard changes from OFF to ON.

2. On the dashboard, turn on the Gauge LEDs. Observe how the Gauge LEDs on the development board illuminate.

3. On the development board, turn the knob on the Potentiometer left or right and wait a few seconds. Observe how the Potentiometer gauge and Potentiometer graph on the dashboard change.

   Note The display on the dashboard relative to action on the board is dependent on the sampling rate on the XBee and potential throttling of data by Remote Manager. If you notice that changes made on the development board are not reflected on the dashboard, refresh the web page and try again.

4. Exercise the serial terminal application. Use a serial terminal application such as XCTU to enter serial data. This example uses XCTU though you can use other serial terminal applications, such as HyperTerm or CoolTerm, as well.

   1. In XCTU, click the Consoles working mode tab. The Console log window appears.

   2. In the Serial Data widget, type some serial data; for example, type Hello World!

      

   3. The XCTU console displays the serial data in text and hexadecimal format; for example, type Hello back?

      

      The Serial Data widget displays the serial data: