GOT IT! The BasicPro command set works just fine, , seems I should wear my glasses more often as I connected the clock bus line to the NON bus clock pin. Of course my I2C bus wasn't working; if I had my BusBee working I could have troubleshot it but that is another story. No matter, GOT IT WORKING so have at it my friend. I was able to write to the BlinkM fine. Reading, , well I have to try that tomorrow.

Oh, just for the record, if you misconnect your I2C bus like I did originally and use the I2C command string including the last bit where you can have a failure message occur, , well, , it didn't give me any error message like I thought it would. Once I hooked it up to the proper pin, then disconnected it from the bus, it did give me an error message. Whatever, , just don't count on that error message (like I did) to help you troubleshoot I2C. Best to use an analyzer (like the one I DON'T have working yet).

Toadman