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Does anyone know much about Visual Basic?

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:24 pm
by hward
Trying to find someone to help me with something I am trying to do in Visual Basic and have always got the best help in these forums so I thought I would ask.

H

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:31 pm
by josh
Ask then

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:36 pm
by hward
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I have one of these

http://www.wgldesigns.com/w800.html


I followed this tutorial/post

http://www.programmers-corner.com/sourcecode/111


It worked fine but what is shows me is just odd characters

on the devices page is has links about what it send but I don't know that much about VB
to know whats wrong with it

H

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:38 am
by josh
The weird characters you see are the binary data being converted to their ascii equivalent values


http://www.wgldesigns.com/protocols/w80 ... otocol.txt

there is the protocol specs for your X-10 wireless unit


It's been a long time since I played around with VB but finding the functions to unpack binary data shouldn't be hard