Digi Xbee XCTU Software - rebuild Network Discovery Tool

Question

For evaluation, I would like to rebuild the network discovery tool from the XCTU Software provides by Digi.

This tool is somehow possible to request all nodes and their connections including information about link quality within the network. I´ve not found so far, which commands are used to collect this information.

Does someone know how to obtain this information?

Answer 1

To start with, ATND will give you a list of nodes on the network. Sending a remote ATMP to end devices will give you the 16-bit network address of their parent. On a mesh network, coordinators and routers won't have a parent.

I'm not sure how it's compiling link quality information, you could monitor the serial communications between X-CTU and the XBee radio module to determine how. I know that for some modules (DigiMesh, 868) they support an ATNO setting of 2, which adds the RSSI value as a field to the Node Discovery responses.