Quote Originally Posted by George View Post
Oh the other thing I forgot to mention is that the RF modules r AM so there is alot of static when there is no carrier
ooofff...AM...that hurts
Still, send the data multiple times, add a checksum to the data, receive the data successfully X number of times, blah blah blah... Should be too much of a problem even with all that random AM static noise.
But you're still on the problem of sitting in a SERIN loop waiting for solid data while you still need to do other stuff, correct? How about a 2nd PIC (say a 16F688) that just sits there and waits for data, and when it gets good data, it fires it out a different serial port to the 'real' PIC, which doesn't have to worry about garbage data... Heck, might even be a good spot for a 10F202 to handle that job!!!