serial coms - again

[malc-c]

That sounds promising.

At the moment I've used Henriks suggestion to send three digits per record which helps with the formatting when the data is received by the application written by a chap from another forum who offered to help (he used liberty basic). However I'm trying to learn VB so your suggestion will help (I'm running two versions of PBP code side by side so I can develop either one )

At the moment the PIC sends data as

Hserout [DEC3 Temperatures(0)]
Hserout [DEC3 Temperatures(1)]
Hserout [DEC3 Temperatures(2)]
Hserout [DEC3 Temperatures(3)]

HSEROUT [dec3 normtemp[0]]
HSEROUT [dec3 normtemp[1]]
HSEROUT [dec3 normtemp[2]]
HSEROUT [dec3 normtemp[3]]

Hserout [dec3 alarmlow[0]]
Hserout [dec3 alarmlow[1]]
Hserout [dec alarmlow[2]]
Hserout [dec alarmlow[3]]

Hserout [dec3 alarmhigh[0]]
Hserout [dec3 alarmhigh[1]]
Hserout [dec3 alarmhigh[2]]
Hserout [dec3 alarmhigh[3]]

hserout [#StartHour[0] DIG 1,#StartHour[0] DIG 0,#StartMin[0] DIG 1,#StartMin[0] DIG 0]
hserout [#StartHour[1] DIG 1,#StartHour[1] DIG 0,#StartMin[1] DIG 1,#StartMin[1] DIG 0]
hserout [#StartHour[2] DIG 1,#StartHour[2] DIG 0,#StartMin[2] DIG 1,#StartMin[2] DIG 0]
hserout [#StartHour[3] DIG 1,#StartHour[3] DIG 0,#StartMin[3] DIG 1,#StartMin[3] DIG 0]

hserout [#StopHour[0] DIG 1,#StopHour[0] DIG 0,#StopMin[0] DIG 1,#StopMin[0] DIG 0]
hserout [#StopHour[1] DIG 1,#StopHour[1] DIG 0,#StopMin[1] DIG 1,#StopMin[1] DIG 0]
hserout [#StopHour[2] DIG 1,#StopHour[2] DIG 0,#StopMin[2] DIG 1,#StopMin[2] DIG 0]
hserout [#StopHour[3] DIG 1,#StopHour[3] DIG 0,#StopMin[3] DIG 1,#StopMin[3] DIG 0]

Hserout [dec3 Droptemp[0]]
Hserout [dec3 Droptemp[1]]
Hserout [dec3 Droptemp[2]]
Hserout [dec3 Droptemp[3]]

hserout [#lightsetHR[0] DIG 1,#lightsetHR[0] DIG 0,#lightsetMN[0] DIG 1,#lightsetMN[0] DIG 0]
hserout [#lightsetHR[1] DIG 1,#lightsetHR[1] DIG 0,#lightsetMN[1] DIG 1,#lightsetMN[1] DIG 0]
hserout [#lightsetHR[2] DIG 1,#lightsetHR[2] DIG 0,#lightsetMN[2] DIG 1,#lightsetMN[2] DIG 0]
hserout [#lightsetHR[3] DIG 1,#lightsetHR[3] DIG 0,#lightsetMN[3] DIG 1,#lightsetMN[3] DIG 0]

hserout [#lightoffHR[0] DIG 1,#lightoffHR[0] DIG 0,#lightoffMN[0] DIG 1,#lightOFFMN[0] DIG 0]
hserout [#lightoffHR[1] DIG 1,#lightoffHR[1] DIG 0,#lightoffMN[1] DIG 1,#lightOFFMN[1] DIG 0]
hserout [#lightoffHR[2] DIG 1,#lightoffHR[2] DIG 0,#lightoffMN[2] DIG 1,#lightOFFMN[2] DIG 0]
hserout [#lightoffHR[3] DIG 1,#lightoffHR[3] DIG 0,#lightoffMN[3] DIG 1,#lightOFFMN[3] DIG 0]

I assume if I need to prefix each section to apply the same code to make each set of three digits get placed in the right text box ?

Also how would I modify the PBP code to send S1, S2 etc as part of the data, would it be "hserout [S1,dec3 temperatures[0]]