wvmarle:
Probably because the xbee doesn't send what you think it sends.I asked you before and you admitted to having no clue what the xbee is actually trying to transmit. Without knowing that, it's useless to try and debug your Arduino side.
I did notice you didn't heed my advice to allow for messages shorter than three bytes.
Hello again sir, I want to show you my code for the transmitter side
const int trigPin = 11;
const int echoPin = 10;
// defines variables
long duration;
int distance;
void setup() {
pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); // Sets the trigPin as an Output
pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); // Sets the echoPin as an Input
Serial.begin(9600); // Starts the serial communication
}
void loop() {
// Clears the trigPin
digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
delayMicroseconds(2);
// Sets the trigPin on HIGH state for 10 micro seconds
digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(10);
digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
// Reads the echoPin, returns the sound wave travel time in microseconds
duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
// Calculating the distance
distance = ((duration * 0.034 / 2) * 10);
// Prints the distance on the Serial Monitor
delay(3000);
Serial.println(distance);
}
the distance is in int. it is the value that is being sent via xbee.
Thanks!