xbee-comm by Joshua Roys patches for macosx support by Bernard Pratz git://github.com/roysjosh/xbee-comm.git https://github.com/roysjosh/xbee-comm irc://irc.freenode.net/#xbee-comm In order to access the xbee as a regular user, you could do the following: # setfacl -m u:$USERNAME:rw /dev/ttyUSB0 On MacOSX, please use /dev/cu.usb* instead of /dev/tty.usb* to access the serial device where your XBee is plugged into. Firmware files can be downloaded from digi: ftp://ftp1.digi.com/support/firmware/update/ If you had a Series 2 XBee, you could do something like the following: $ wget ftp://ftp1.digi.com/support/firmware/update/xbee_zb/XB24-ZB_2070.zip $ unzip XB24-ZB_2070.zip $ xbfwup [args...] ebl_files/XB24-ZB_2070.ebl Entering bootloader... Beginning programming... Read 95424 byte firmware file (746 blocks). .................................................. 50 .................................................. 100 .................................................. 150 .................................................. 200 .................................................. 250 .................................................. 300 .................................................. 350 .................................................. 400 .................................................. 450 .................................................. 500 .................................................. 550 .................................................. 600 .................................................. 650 .................................................. 700 .............................................. Programming complete, running uploaded firmware...