Chapter 8. Commissioning ZigBee Networks
Commissioning is the process of connecting ZigBee applications to each other. This process, while simple in concept, can be fairly complicated to do well and can involve quite a few steps. Commissioning includes:
• Searching for appropriate networks to join
• Joining the correct network
• Determining which nodes on the network to talk to
• Determining how to talk to those other nodes (groups, bindings, or directly)
• Determining if communication has stopped and what to do about it, perhaps even searching for the network on a different channel
Before diving into commissioning, it's worthwhile to talk about a man who served on another commission, and is rumored to have been the inspiration for the name ZigBee. ...
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