I extended my ZigBee Site Survey Tool with an interoperability chart displaying ZigBee and WiFi networks as well. I found some on npmjs.com some modules supplying the WiFi information of the system and some of them worked quite well – at least in the first few tests. Digging deeper I always found some details which made
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Category: ZigBee
New version of the ZigBee Site Survey Tool available
Sometimes setting up a ZigBee network in a noisy environment can be a very annoying task as other ZigBee or WiFi networks occupy the same channel. Using the ZigBee Site Survey Tool with an MMB Networks USB Stick can help you to find such interfering networks and shorten your installation time at a customers site
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Starting up the ZigBee Survey Tool together with the System
This post describes how to startup the ZigBee Site Survey Tool (or any other node.js script, like the Qwesta Weather station) together with the system using PM2. This was verified with the Raspberry Pi (Rasbian Jessie and Ubuntu Mate) and a Desktop PC running Ubuntu 14.04. Prerequisites Node.js (version 4 or later) must be installed
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Running the ZigBee Site Survey on a Raspberry Pi
This is a tutorial how to install and run my freeware tool ZigBee Site Survey on a Raspberry Pi. This was tested with a Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspbian “Jessie” but it should run also on other devices (other distributions) without significant changes. Prerequisites Keep your system up-to date: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo
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A node.js based tool for ZigBee measurements
Before installing your ZigBee nodes you most likely want to know whether the signal strength of the network is good enough for operation. For this purpose I recently wrote a tool for ZigBee site surveys working with a 17$ USB dongle from MMB Networks. Find out more about this tool on its GitHub page.