sending to xbee and processing from arduino

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Hello!

in my project I have an arduino that uses xbee series 1 to communicate with two other arduinos, each sends and receives a few times per second. Now I want to visualize this data in processing, which is connected through usb to one of these arduinos. As far as I have used xbee and processing with arduino, I always use Serial.write to send data. In this case we simply divided the numbers 0-255, because Serial.write doesnt go any higher, and the arduino that I want to use in this case, sends values between 5 and 205 to the other arduinos and receives 1-4 and 205-255. I would like to send 0-255 to processing without sending it over xbee. It would be best to have another arduino or xbee explorer, solely for sending to processing but we dont have one at hand now. I hope I made it clear, I am quite new to programming. If you would like code just say so, but I dont think it adds anything here.

Tim

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I would like to send 0-255 to processing without sending it over xbee.

If you have the XBee connected to pins 0 and 1, you can't do that. If you have the XBee connected to other pins, then there is no problem.

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okay so I should not use the shield then, I believe it uses pins 0 and 1. thanks!

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I should not use the shield then

Which shield? I have three different kinds. One kind has the XBee hardwired to pins 0 and 1, so I don't use them any more. One has a switch that lets me select either 0 and 1 or 2 and 3, so I can use either Serial or an instance of SoftwareSerial. The third, that I designed, uses pins 7 and 8, leaving the external interrupt pins free, too. I use an instance of SoftwareSerial to talk to the XBee and Serial to talk to the PC.