Xbee communication problem

[jubenini]

Hello,
I have an 18X hooked up to a picaxe connect board with an xbee modem, and another connect board hooked to my computer through the download cable. I am trying to send readings from an accelerometer, which is attached to the picaxe, to the computer so I can log them, but I am running into problems. When I run this program:

main:
serout 7,T2400,("HELLO",CR,LF)
pause 2000
goto main

and listen with my computer, it happily reads in HELLO over and over again complete with line breaks.
However, when I put the same serout command into the program that reads the accelerometer, it happily reads Zøtt:ºZø over and over again with no line breaks at all. Between the two programs, I didn't change any hardware, I just downloaded a new program. Does anyone have any idea what is happening?

thanks

 

[Wrenow]

I have some suspicions, but it might help to see the actual code you replaced it with and (hint) to know if it is numeric data you are sending.

Cheers,

Wreno

 

[jubenini]

hmm

Ok,
So I posted a little hastily.

In my code, I was setting the values of outputs 0-5 with the let pins command and a byte variable. Since the Xbee is output 7, it was setting that pin also. So, when I take out the let pins commands, it works. Moron!

which I suppose brings up another question... is there a quick way to set outputs 0-5 simultaneously without bothering the higher outputs, or do I need to do separate high commands for each pin?

Thanks for your help.

 

[hippy]

You can still use "pins=", just make sure that what you set output pin 7 to is what it would be if you were not altering it.