xbee serial1 can form a xbee work?

Projects Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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:astonished: I want to form a xbee network, some friends told me I can use API mode.

and I follow the tutorial on website: http://www.instructables.com/id/Configuring-XBees-for-API-Mode/?ALLSTEPS

at the XCTU configure side, they use the ZNET...

but after I choose the one they use, I got error then cannot write into the chip.

then I found that the chip use in this website is s2. and the one I use now is s1..

can anyone tell me is this chip can form a network or use API mode or not.
I search on Internet, many tutorial use S2..

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XBee 802.15.4 modules (formerly known as Series 1) do point-to-point, point-to-multipoint or peer-to-peer networking. XBee ZB modules (f.k.a. S2) do ZigBee mesh networking.

The selection of AT (transparent) or API mode has no bearing on the networking capabilities, it only governs the local (wired, UART) interface to the module.

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can anyone tell me is this chip can form a network or use API mode or not.

They can not, in the sense that a network manages routing messages from the source node to the destination node, through whatever intermediate nodes it needs to.

You can make several S1 models simulate a network as long as no routers are actually needed to get a message from the source to the destination.