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Re: Re: RS485 - XPL on the wire
RS-485 to me means DMX and widely available lamp dimmer packs for a
fraction
of the price of a CBus dimmer.
That's what I'd like to see supported.
Mal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] Re: RS485 - XPL on the wire
>
> Hi Lehane / Ian
>
> Like Ian I am also interested in xpl 485 enabling
stuff...But
> to develope stuff we need to get more feedback from xPL Users on the
sort
of
> devices that they would like....Would be nice if several rs485
developements
> going on at the same time by different people.....I think there would
need
> to be a RS232 / 485 convertor made which means one side would have to
be
> bit banged , not aware of any pics with 2 uarts ??or a commercially
> available unit ?? .............Have done a little bit on rs485 and
used
the
> chksum as you decribed.............Im more than happy to get involved
in
> rs485 projects if others are and there is enough interest as
well......
>
> This link mentions the rs485 stuuf i was playing with
> http://skybax.rapidhoster.co.uk/~armagh/page10.html
>
> Frank
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "g8kmh" <lehane@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:49 AM
> Subject: [ukha_xpl] Re: RS485 - XPL on the wire
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> >
> > OK,
> > I'd missed xpl_devcom in my searches, oops!
> >
> > LRC-8 is a simple checksum on the message. XOR everything after
STX
> > including ETX and the result is the checksum. No big deal to do
and
> > offers some protection against message corruption, which since
the
> > RS485 is going to be around mains cabling (even taking into
account
> > normal separations) I think is a reasonable precaution.
> >
> > Be interested in the PIC implementations....
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lehane
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