My first Arduino's project

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Hi guys:

I'm a begginer in the arduino community. I have worked with waspmote and meshlium in my degree project but now I want built a prototype for a personal project. I want develop a multiple water flow meter and for this I need help.
First at all I want know if the devices that I have selected are compatibles:

-Solar Module for arduino. http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/shop/arduino/shields/solar-module-for-arduino.html
-IO Expansion Shield for arduino(V5). http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/io-expansion-shield-for-arduino-v5.html
-Arduino UNO rev.3 http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/arduino-uno.html
-XBEE PRO ZB SMA Module. http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/xbee-pro-zb-sma-module.html
-G1/2 Water Flow sensor, BT-DFS-500 or BT-DFS-400

And I want connect this with a Meshlium ZigBee-PRO-AP

Is it posible?

What libraries I need to get my objective?

regards and I hope that I help to the community too.

Is it posible?

What libraries I need to get my objective?

regards.

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Nobody can help me? :roll_eyes:

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I am unable to see what you have but they all sound compatible. Did you already order them? You should look at their data sheets and look to see if they use ANY of the same I/O pins. If they do, you might have a problem.

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No, I haven´t order them, I'm going to see their data sheets, I think that they are compatibles but I'm not sure.

I want connect a lot of flow sensors to the IO expansion board and send the information trough Xbee module to the Meshlium.

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Pedro_Rodriguez:
No, I haven´t order them, I'm going to see their data sheets, I think that they are compatibles but I'm not sure.

I want connect a lot of flow sensors to the IO expansion board and send the information trough Xbee module to the Meshlium.

That shouldn't be a problem.

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Someone knows if it possible connect an arduino with a meshlium... I need this information for my project. :~

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I understood that meshlium was a router that would talk to a raft of different communication devices. It doesn't care what system is standing behind that device. Since Arduino can use many different communication devices, it shouldn't be a problem but I would not have thought meshlium was a good idea for a personal project as you probably only need one method of communication.

The flow sensor looks much the same as mine, a hall-effect device and you won't need any libraries for it.

This link might be useful

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Thanks for your advices (Nick_Pyner and HazardsMind), It seems useful, but I want use a Meshlium, because I have one of my degree project and I want that It works with arduino. (It's a personal project but I'm a little ambitious :D)

I think that if I get send the dataframe equals than waspmote It should works.

In waspmote, I send the information like this:

sprintf(aux,"-mac:%s%s -x:%s,y:%s,z:%s -temp:%s -bat: %d%c%c%c",macHigh,macLow,humT1,hum,pres,temp,PWR.getBatteryLevel(),'%','\r','\n');

paq_sent=(packetXBee*) calloc(1,sizeof(packetXBee));
paq_sent->mode=BROADCAST;
paq_sent->MY_known=0;
paq_sent->packetID=0x52;
paq_sent->opt=0;
xbeeZB.hops=0;
xbeeZB.setOriginParams(paq_sent,MAC_TYPE);
xbeeZB.setDestinationParams(paq_sent, "0013A2XXXXXXXXXX", aux, MAC_TYPE, DATA_ABSOLUTE);
xbeeZB.sendXBee(paq_sent);
free(paq_sent);
paq_sent = NULL;

Someone knows that it is posible in arduino.

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If your going over a network, then use a wifi shield or ethernet shield. Is Xbee capable of connecting to a network, or even a router?

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Well, I have used a XBee Zigbee PRO SMA module before to connect a Waspmote with a Meshlium ZigBee-PRO-AP (It is a multiprotocol router) and it works very nice.
http://www.libelium.com/documentation/mesh_extreme/meshlium-technical_guide_eng.pdf

The advantage of use Zigbee Protocol is the low energy consume and the coverage radius.

Thank you very much for your advice.

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Hasn't connected nobody an Arduino Xbee module to a Meshlium?

It will be a very hard task... :disappointed_relieved: