Hey do you have to program an arduino board to get serial data from an xbee shield? If so how, also if you are transmitting serial data is it received as alpha or is it in hex?
Hey do you have to program an arduino board to get serial data from an xbee shield?
Well, duh. If you don't program the Arduino, it doesn't do anything.
If so how
Most people use the Arduino IDE. Some use Eclipse. Some use Visual Micro (a Visual Studio addin). Some use external editors, and compile with the IDE.
also if you are transmitting serial data is it received as alpha or is it in hex?
Depends on what was sent.
So if you where to send "w" over a serial connection, how would it be received?
char ltr = Serial.read();
would result in ltr = 'w'.