Andrew McClure

Thanks, that should do it! Libelium has its own frame structure. It is documented and open source. http://www.libelium.com/uploads/2013/02/data_frame_guide.pdf

Just looked at the alternative repo. svd-xbee has a simpler interface and was updated more recently? What is the difference between these two projects? thanks

The frame data is encapsulated in API2 data request handlers. I'm only missing two bytes (which I can assume) so it's no real show stopper. Moving to raw serial would...

I have migrated to the xbee-api library as recommended. With api_mode: 2, and raw_frames:false it appears to work well and give me access to the underlying buffer where I can...