Thanks for running it That’s getting worthwhile then. Using Pauseus in the first post would have added code to it.

I might as well have a shot at the serial input over the next few days then.
Basically I did this on dspic in C, and it wrote easily into PBP as well.
The pic at the receive end is supposed to be 16F628A in PBP/asm.

My mp3 player serial spits out the artist & title info from the ID tags as tracks are skipped (that much is working).
Then the 16F628A is supposed to receive the serial, and transmit IR to an electronic sign the same way a user would normally use a remote to reprogram the scrolling message