by Rob Faludi (http://faludi.com),
Jordan Husney (http://jordan.husney.com),
& Ted Hayes (http://log.liminastudio.com),
Download current releases here: https://github.com/XBeeInternetGateway/XIG/releases Explore the help wiki documentation here: https://github.com/XBeeInternetGateway/XIG/wiki
I. INTRODUCTION
The XBee Internet Gateway ("XIG") is an application written for Digi's ConnectPort series of XBee-to-IP gateways. The XBee Internet Gateway gives any device the ability to connect seamlessly to the Internet by mirroring the interactions humans have with web browsers. Any device with an XBee radio can send a web URL to the XIG and receive back the contents of that web page. All the tricky technical aspects of web connections are all handled for you behind the scenes.
This simple service gives your prototype or device a simple yet completely flexible pathway to any web service that you can imagine, including posting sensor values, scraping Facebook or commanding your robotic kitten army.
XIG offeres a myriad of other interesting and useful communications services to your XBee network. For complete documentation and setup instructions please visit:
See also:
http://code.google.com/p/xig/wiki/UserDocumentation http://faludi.com/xig http://www.digi.com/products/wireless-routers-gateways/gateways/
XIG is brought to you by an open-source team by makers Robert Faludi, Jordan Husney and Ted Hayes with valuable support from a community of commercial and educational users.
II. RELEASE HISTORY
2015/08/21 - XIG v1.5.2
Change the look and feel of the tool.
Removed all the references to Device Cloud.
2012/11/11 - XIG v1.5.1b19
Optimized garbage collection for ConnectPort X2. Should resolve XIG crashing due to insufficient memory on this platform.
Added time zone support so samples show up and graph properly when using iDigi's DataStreams.
Added support for the ConnectPort X2e.
Added some useful logging messages to the idigi_rci and idigi_data session types.
Log levels now configurable in configuration file.
Improved upload algorithm for idigi_data session.
Work around for exceptions during execution on Raspberry Pi Raspbian platform when using Raspian's stock Python v2.7.1 interpreter.
Fixes for DigiMesh.
Misc bugfixes.
2012/07/13 - XIG v1.5.0
Added support using Digi's CP4PC Python module so XIG can be run on non-Digi ConnectPort hardware. Refactored XIG abstractions to work with CP4PC.
Added XIG web GUI (run it from src as "gui/xig_app.py").
Bug fixes to iDigi RCI session module.
2012/03/06 - XIG v1.4.2
Fixes issue #19; added additional exception handling around httplib and global exception handler to prevent XIG from crashing.
Fixed gateway crash in idigi_data session.
2012/01/29 - XIG v1.4.1
Added parser for IS AT command. If you use the remote-AT command functionality via iDigi and execute an IS command on a remote XBee, the XIG will parse the IS packet for you.
2012/01/29 - XIG v1.4.0
Added idigi_data session allowing automatic I/O sample and free-form key/value data pairs to be upload to the iDigi Dia data service (see http://www.idigi.com).
Enhanced the idigi_rci session to allow the setting of remote AT commands.
Fixed issue #18, a crash caused due to a missing import statement.
2011/12/15 - XIG v1.3.2
Fixes issue #12 catching when the radio is in use by another Python program by printing an error message to console.
Fixes issue #15 where data was being dropped due to XIG not using the proper maximum receive packet size.
Found and fixed minor issue where XBee receive status messages were being stored in the rolling command buffer. Fixing this issue leads to a small performance enhancement.
2011/11/29 - XIG v1.3.1
Added support for multiple destinations to the io_sample session. By setting the io_sample_destination_url to a dictionary mapping hardware address to destination URLs the XIG can now forward I/O sample information to multiple servers.
2011/09/14 - XIG v1.3.0
Fixed Issue #10 where URLs containing usernames and passwords would cause an exception to be thrown.
Architecture changes to allow for services (such as the I/O sample service) in addition to sessions with commands driven from an XBee.
Code re-factorization to split apart growing xig.py into multiple library files.
New streaming command parser should resolve issues where sessions could not be aborted if "xig://abort" was not sent in a single packet.
Added the I/O Sample HTTP service.
Added the iDigi RCI service.
Merged in and modified the UDP service from Axel Roest.
Merged in Open Sound Control (OSC) service by Axel Roest.
README documentation updates.
2011/07/28 - XIG v1.2.1
Fixes HTTP state machine to resolve issue #7: "Failure after URL with no response"
2011/05/30 - XIG v1.2.0
Completes feature request input as issue #5: "Query for NTP time directly to Gateway" XIG can now return the current time understood by the ConnectPort X2 gateway by sending XIG the xig://time command.
Minor code refactoring updates including common modules moved into their own library directory
Re-introduction of the ability for the XIG to be run on a PC for UDP simulation mode. Useful for testing with the netcat utility.
2011/02/08 - XIG v1.1.1
Two significant bug fixes.
Fixes issue #4 "XIG stops responding after invalid URL entered" Fixes bug reported by e-mail where URL elements including and after '?' character in query string are ignored.
2010/11/17 - XIG v1.1.0
All transmissions from the ConnectPort gateway to destination XBees are acknowledged and automatically retried if the transmit should fail. This enables the XIG to function more cleanly with XBee devices configured for lower baud rates.
In addition, the maximum transmission unit (MTU) for XBees is now being dynamically determined. This will enable the XIG to work on very large XBee networks where many-to-one and source routing is enabled.
The debug print messages have been changed in this release; some session messages were outright removed while XBee interactions present more informative and clear information.
2010/09/25 - XIG v1.0.0
Released v1.0.0 for Maker Faire New York 2010. First public release.