I am a bit new to wireless connections between arduinos. In my project I will have three arduinos. Each arduino will send something and they all read everything. I will not be sending a lot of different values, if arduino 1 sends for example 1, 2 or 3, arduino 2 sends 4, 5 or 6, and arduino 3 sends 7,8 or 9 and they can each read those it will be fine. Can I use the xbee series 1 for this? Its the simpler version that does not require configuring.
please say if you need more details, I am probably forgetting something.. Thanks!
Can I use the xbee series 1 for this? Its the simpler version that does not require configuring.
Yes, you can and no, it isn't. Digi makes some great products, and has some good documentation, but that crap they put out about XBees not needing to be configured is horsecrap.
In order to get one point to point model to talk to two other XBees, you will need to use Andrew Rapp's XBee library. Keep in mind that one XBee can only talk to one other XBee at a time, unless you use broadcast mode (which can't be used on all three), so you will need to send the same data twice - once to each of the other XBees.