Raspberry pi, Arduino UNO communication using xbee

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Hi

I am setting up a control/monitoring system for my small plant nursery using several Arduinos and a central Rasperberry PI.
The idea is that the Arduinos will have sensors and relays connected to them and the Arduino sketch will simply drive the hardware and respond to commands issued from the central Raspberry PI.

The user interface will be a web page served up by the central Raspberry PI.

At this point on the bench I have a Arduino Mega with a temperature, humidity and barometric sensor connected and working, a Raspberry Pi communicating with the Arduino via usb cable and a web page displaying dynamically the Arduino sensor data.

Now it is time to desperate the two replacing the usb cable with a wireless link.

The max distance between the Arduino and Raspberry pi will be about 40 meters with one brick wall in the way.

To the question can the group recommend which Xbee modules I can use for both the central Raspberry Pi and remote
Arduinos.

Kind Regards
Greg Elton

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Hi Greg,

Nice project! Does the communication need to be bidirectional, or just one way?

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It needs to be bidirectional. The Raspberry Pi will send and receive a response from the Arduino. This a have working.

Kind Regards
Greg

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Cheers. You could grab a budget transceiver and go from there. With all things wireless, never trust the data on either side. Use some sort of checksum method to challenge packets and build a protocol that can handle/resolve the strangest of edge cases, such as missing data, timeouts, or a flipped bit.