Zigbee detection?

Jul 07, 2006 1 Replies
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How can I detect Zigbee radios to determine if they are interfering with my



802.11 signal...

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radios are used to detect water leaks, termites or similar systems in large buildings etc...



Is there a Linux/Win32 tool that can detect them? Do they sent packets like



802.11 does?

Thanks,



Jixter


"Jixter" hath wroth:

Spectrum analyzer. The problem is that Zigbee is frequency hopping spread spectrum, which is not compatible with 802.11 direct sequence spread spectrum. Therefore, none off the common 802.11 tools will see a Zigbee radio.

Note that they're usually very low power.

Zigbee is usually setup as a mesh networks. They send and receive lots of packets.

Possible sources of 2.4GHz interference:

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See:
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the cheapest spectrum analyzer. I have one but have never tried it with Zigbee. Some "recordings" of different types of non-802.11 xmitters:
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No zigbee recordings. The Wi-Spy device is not terribly sensitive without an external antenna. I threw together this antenna, which helps, but is far from optimum:
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