Zigbee per-se comes with a lot of baggage, but some of the modules for
Zigbee can be run in a simple peer to peer mode where they act just
like an error-corrected virtual serial connection. The XBee modules
from Digi International are one such example.

Sean


On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com> w=
rote:
> Oli Glaser wrote:
>> but I'm not an expert on the RF
>> side of things, so was looking at rfPICs and zigbee, neither of which
>> I have used before. Any advice from anyone on this front before I
>> start spending would be most appreciated.
>
> rfPICs are very low level, and Zigbee comes with a lot of baggage. =A0Sin=
ce
> this is for a one off, I would either use some simple modules or integrat=
ed
> chips that some of the encoding/decoding for you.
>
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