Re: [patch #8719] xbee programmer

[David Sainty]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 at 23:32, Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:

> As David Sainty wrote:
>
> > It does need to know the XBee Zigbee address of the remote device on the
> > mesh, which is supplied along with the serial port of the local XBee
> device
> > - E.g. `-P 0013a2004183dd6d@/dev/tty.usbserial-DN05LQ2S`, where
> > `/dev/tty.usbserial-DN05LQ2S` is MacOS's serial port device name and
> > `0013a2004183dd6d` is the ZigBee address of a remote XBee that shares a
> > mesh with the XBee on that serial port.  That is somewhat quirky, and
> arose
> > from there not being a straightforward place to store that data without
> > treading on the feet of the stk500 programmer I'm essentially
> overloading.
>
> Well, please add some kind of example and this explanation to the
> documentation. I don't care much whether you add it to avrdude.1 or
> doc/avrdude.texi, or to both (I'm willing to add the missing half if
> you do only one of both) - but without an example, I guess nobody will
> be able to figure out how to use it unless they read this example here
> in the mailing list.
>
>
 Yes, I can do that, probably tomorrow.