Xbee: 2 x Adriunos, serial comms not working

  1. with your setup, are you using any kind of USB device [FTDI cable or FTDI Friend, etc], or making
    comms via XBee only?

Only via XBee.. just use USB to program it then remove them. Running off battery on the Seeeduino and mains on the Etherten Arduino

  1. unless something is funny with the Stalker design, you should not be using SoftSerial at pins 0,1
    because those pins are wired to the hardware UART of the Arduino, accessed via
    Serial.begin(9600); and other Serial.xxx functions. Therefore, having both

Serial.begin(BaudRate);
mySerial.begin(BaudRate);

kinds of statements in the same sketch will cause a conflict between Serial and SoftSerial.

** I changed to 2,3 on both units to avoid conflicts.**
** Also made Serial 9600 and myserial 4800 on both ends (Seeeduino and Etherten)**

  1. Similarly, where you are using SoftwareSerial on pins 2,3, what is connected to those pins on
    the header? Normally, they're just open.

Nothing connect on either ends on these pins. I tired different pins also

  1. I assume in your Receiver sketch where you have Serial and SoftSerial, you are trying to use one
    of those ports as a debug port? Do you have something [FDTI cable or Friend] connected to J2 on
    the Receiver board?

I remove the cable on the J2.. just have it running on battery.