Sending Serial Commands to XBee series 2 on OS X with Screen

In the spirit of consolidation and to support my own laziness...

Initial set-up of XBee ZB modules... for fancy-pants meshing:

in terminal,

# list serial ports
$ ls -l /dev/tty.*

# open usb port /dev/tty.usbserial-A9003QNn with 9600 baud
$ screen /dev/tty.usbserial-A9003QNn 9600

# in screen...
# enter command mode
+++

# get XBee Firmware (ctrl-A b for a break - pain in the ass, really)
# ATVR ctrl-A b

# get XBee PAN id
# ATID ctrl-A b

# get serial number high
# ATSH ctrl-A b

# get serial number low
# ATSL ctrl-A b

from aldwyn on this sparkfun forum post:

Which makes perfect sense, as the nodes route and identify dynamically in a mesh network. Unfortunately, the bulk of tutorials/documentation on teh interwebs is for XBee series 1, and Series 2 with the older firmware.

The documents from Digi are a must-read.