Is it possible to restart XBee with command when power on?

Question

I am using XBee S2 ZigBee to do wireless communication, but sometimes I met cases that XBee failed to get some data frame and after several rounds it stopped. I found out that after I power off both XBees and then power on again, it will work again. So I guess if I can restart it with command when power on, I might able to make it work continuously.

I am using the python-xbee library to send out and receive data.

The xbee connected to computer side was set to API mode as coordinator; the xbee connected to sensor board was set to AT mode as router.

Is it possible to restart both of them with command when power on? How?

Answer 1

According to this document (and others) : https://www.digi.com/resources/documentation/digidocs/pdfs/90002002.pdf there is no command to reboot the module.

But a litle trick you can try, is to use one of the GPIO of your module to do a hard reset of your module like so :

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But of course the best way is to find what causes the errors !