On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:09:04PM -0800, Scott Pierce wrote:
> First of all, it seems as though the Panasonic inverts the bits so
> when I received a byte I just inverted it before displaying it on an
> LED graph.  Even though I'm sending a whole byte over serial, I'm only
> actually using the five least significant bits of the byte.

That inversion is probably what's causing your problem.  If the polarity
is wrong, the start bit won't be recognised properly.  Try reversing the
IR LED to undo the inversion, and see if that helps.

Chris

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