How to Get into API Mode programmatically?

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How to Get into API Mode programmatically?

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 11 comments

Seems like a bootstrapping problem. Is there a way to talk to a local XBee device via serial port to do what XCTU does to set API Mode?

PaulHeitkemper commented 7 years ago

Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2018-02-26T21:05:13.000Z

Yeah I was thinking about this recently. It is a bootstrapping problem but I can work on it. — If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Answer 2 · 2018-02-26T21:19:52.000Z

Is this the right answer? I won't be looking into it for several days.

https://www.digi.com/support/forum/66685/digimesh-how-to-enter-api-mode?show=66685#q66685

Answer 3 · 2018-02-27T03:42:11.000Z

Yes, that’s how you enter it. I was trying to come up with a way to detect that it needed to be switched but maybe that doesn’t make sense. If it’s just a method call then that’s easy. — If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Answer 4 · 2018-02-27T14:34:51.000Z

Can you just read the AP value to see if it is 0, or are you talking about something else? In the serial console in XCTU, I get the following:

+++OK

ATAP
1

Answer 5 · 2018-02-27T17:25:42.000Z

Well I think that’s the rub. You can but do you read it with API mode or not? — If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Answer 6 · 2018-02-27T21:08:02.000Z

I was able to issue the following commands from the serial console inside XCTU.

+++OK
ATAP
0
ATAP1
OK
ATWR
OK
ATAP
1
ATAP0
OK
ATWR
OK

Answer 7 · 2018-02-27T22:52:31.000Z

Gotcha. Ok, that should work. — If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Answer 8 · 2018-02-28T23:41:37.000Z

Are you ok if I just set API mode on controller open? It's probably the easiest since after that the handlers take over and I can't easily inject textual AT commands

Answer 9 · 2018-03-01T19:47:02.000Z

seems fine. I plan to use them all in API Mode anyway.

Or you could have a different device type to talk to module not in serial mode. Once it's in API mode, one could dispose that object and begin using the API as always.

Answer 10 · 2018-03-02T16:18:31.000Z

Done. Core 1.6 will automatically switch controllers into API mode when opened. However, note that it will not persist the settings. Once in API mode you can use the normal Set/GetApiModeAsync methods to manage it along with WriteAsync().