ZB2430 User’s Manual - v1.6

A D V A N C E D N E T W O R K C O M M A N D S

 

P e r f o r m S c a n

ZigBee Coordinators and Routers can manually scan selected channels for RF activity and other ZigBee devices/PAN ID’s, etc.

Note: This command not valid for End Devices.

Command Definitions

Scan Channel: A 32-bit channel mask specifying the channel(s) to include in the scan.

Scan Type: Specifies the type of scan to perform. Energy scan, the device will tune to each channel & perform an energy measurement. Active scan, the device tunes to each channel, sends a beacon request and listen for beacons from other ZigBee devices.

Scan Duration: Duration of the Active & Energy scans on each channel selected. Time is measured as: (15.36ms) x 2^(Scan Duration + 1)

Max Results: The maximum number of results to report for Active scans. Ignored with Energy scan command.

Status: Indicates the status of the current scan.

Channel Number: 8-bit channel current measurement was taken from.

Energy: The strength of the RF channel during the Energy scan.

NWK Address: 16-bit NWK address of the neighboring device.

PAN ID: The 16-bit PAN ID of the network to which the device belongs.

Link Quality: The strength of the link between the current device and the device found during the Active scan.

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Start Delimiter

 

Command Identifier

Request

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xCC

 

 

 

0x8B

 

 

 

Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 9

Scan Channel (Bytes 3-6)

32-bit channel mask describing channels to scan

Scan Type (Byte 7)

0x00: Energy detect scan

0x01: Active scan

Scan Duration (Byte

8)

Reserved (Byte 9)

Max Results (Byte 10)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Range: 0x00-0x0E

 

 

 

Reserved.

 

 

Maximum number

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set to 0x00.

 

 

of results to return

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ZB2430 specifications

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