Need help using MEL command "Xout" with an X-10 PCS-05 bidir pwr-line interface

[ardhuru]

Okay, set your receiver module to House 'A', Unit '1'.

Substitute the XOUT statements from your code to

XOUT PORTB.1,PORTC.5,[0\0,0\unitOn) 'Send an 'ON' to A1
and
XOUT PORTB.1,PORTC.5,[0\0,0\unitOff) 'Send an 'OFF' to A1

Lets see where this gets you; if it doesnt work I'll take a closer look at the waveforms, but I think that might be unnecessary.

BTW, connect your pic XOUT pin directly to the interface; as Dave pointed out the extra components are really not required.

Regards,

Anand

[guglulenun]

Hi Anand, and everyone else who responded to my plight,

Anand, Your suggested code worked like a charm, on the first try--THANK YOU !!!

I am thrilled to have it finally working. I'll need to go troubleshoot why my code did not work, so I can better understand my mistake and how not to repeat it in the future. And, whew--I'm sure glad to not need that other circuitry that X10pro showed in between the PIC-chip and the psco5.

Fantastic, and thanks again,
Guglulenun

[ardhuru]

Hi guglulenun,

I am glad you have got it working.

The problem was with the syntactic construction of your XOUT line.

Once you have defined the House and Unit codes, the line should be in the format:

XOUT SIG_OUT,ZEROX,[HOUSE\UNIT,HOUSE\unitOn]

Since you have included modedefs.com, you can also use all the pre-defined X10 commands directly .

Also, you can use byte variables for House and Unit, as they only go up to 16.

Regards,

Anand.