Started having a play with Homevision. Initially had a little trouble setting up my ir remote . I didnt realise that you had to set up your remote to suit Homevision (Hitachi format) my remote was set up for Sony format. Anyway got it going ,wrote a couple of macros,set up some ir codes and played. No problem worked beautifully ,next was the important one program the Serial Data Input routine to capture and decipher text messages (commands) that would be sent by Genesis. First up I used Hyper terminal to send text messages to Homevision. To my surprize it worked first go. Next I borrowed a Genesis Motherboard Keypad and Output Controller from my friend John (Genesis Electronics) and started to write some scripts. Connected the Output Controllers serial port to Homevisions serial port 3 and sent some text messages. And guess what it DIDNT work,I double

Checked my scripts and serial input code all seemed ok. After some advice from John I connected Hyper terminal to Genesis output controller and was recieving rubbish. Changed baud rate for output controller serial port to 9600 tried again on Hyperterminal bingo works. Changed the Homevision serial port 3 to 9600 tried sending text commands and likewise worked fine. Continued to play with Homevision/Genesis duo talking no problem. One little snag I hit when I programmed Homevision to turn a lite off after a delay. When I pressed my push button connected to Genesis it would think the lite was still on so would sent a off command even though it was off. To sync both I duplicated the timing code into the Genesis input script so that if the script timer times out it clears the ON flag therefore the next press will send an on command. I took some pics of the two connected have a look. Pics More on HomeVision soon.