XBee USB Adapter UART Communication Board XBee Interface USB Interface Onboard Buttons/LEDs for Easy Testing,Program/Configure XBee Module

This is needed for my application to be able to have the UART pins to connect to the Teensy.

Works add intended

Works well, but the labelling for the UART pins is backwards, if you're connecting the module to an Arduino or any other microcontroller, usually you connect a modules Tx pin to the controllers Rx pin. Then the modules Rx pin connects to the controllers Tx pin. However with this module you need to connect Rx to Rx and Tx to Tx which is reverse from the standard and took a little bit for me to figure out so that's bit confusing. Other than that it works as advertised. For reference I'm using a Sparkfun's XBee 3 pro radio modules to communicate wirelessly between my laptop and an Arduino Due (over the Due's Serial1 pins).

I purchased this to program an Xbee v3 with XCTU, which I was able to do. There are two problems though. The first is that the fastest baud rate I could get the Xbee to communicate with XCTU was 9,600, which is slower than expected. But my biggest complaint is that I planned to use this device to power my Xbee via usb, again it’s able to do this, but my Xbee has an RP-SMA antenna and the waveshare completely prevents you from being able to mount the antenna through the wall of a box because it’s about 1cm too long. I will have to use jumpers in order to mount this in a box, something that I could have done (and probably will do) with a simple $4 FTDI adapter.