At this point, your Wi-SUN Development Kit should be fully configured and operational. Using the XBee Wi-SUN Get Started Quick Setup provided in XBee Studio, you have already programmed the appropriate firmware to the XBee Hive Wi-SUN and the XBee Wi-SUN modules, and applied a configuration that prepares them for evaluation.

The network formation process is automatic but may take up to several minutes.

Please wait while the devices join the mesh.

The devices are powered and interconnected, and a Wi-SUN PAN should be automatically formed once the devices boot:

  1. Check the Wi-SUN network is formed:

    • In the XBee Hive Wi-SUN, verify that the XBee LED shows either solid green, when Wi-SUN interface is running, or blinking green-cyan, for traffic in the Wi-SUN network.

    • In the XBee Wi-SUN devices, verify that the Connection Status LED blinks once per second.

  2. Review the Wi-SUN network topology in XBee Studio by selecting the Network Topology option in the XBee Hive Wi-SUN tab.

    The XBee Hive Wi-SUN acts as the root of the mesh, while the two XBee Wi-SUN modules join as leaf nodes.

  3. Ensure the XBee modules report the IPv6 address given by the Border Router. To do that:

    1. Open the device tab of your each device.

    2. In the Dashboard page, if the Mesh addr field in the XBee Wi-SUN card shows only zeros, click Settings in the sidebar to refresh device data.

With this setup in place, you are ready to explore core capabilities of Digi’s Wi-SUN solution through a series of short, hands-on exercises. Each exercise focuses on a specific capability of the platform and builds on the previous steps using the same hardware setup and preloaded configuration.

All exercises assume that the firmware and configuration have been applied using the XBee Wi-SUN Get Started Quick Setup. If you have not yet applied the configuration, go back to Step 5 - Configure the Wi-SUN devices before proceeding.
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