Re: Receiving security RF codes from DS10A

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Charles Sullivan" <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.01.23.18.11.50.931556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:02:26 -0500, Robert Green wrote:
>
> > Someone in the ADI forum asked if there was a way for the Ocelot to read
> > X-10 security RF codes as in those transmitted  by the DS10A.  While
this
> > device:
> >
> > http://www.wgldesigns.com/w800.html
> >
> > translates X-10 RF to serial ASCII, IIRC, the Ocelot can't read ASCII,
only
> > write it.  Am I all wet on this or what?
>
> The W800RF32A doesn't send ASCII.  For the DS10A and HR12A at
> least, it sends groups of four 8-bit binary bytes to the serial
> port (normally repeated multiple times depending on the
> transmitter).  I have no idea whether or not the Ocelot can deal
> with this.

You're right.  After I posted the above note I found the detailed protocol
at:

http://www.wgldesigns.com/protocols/w800rf32_protocol.txt