Greetings All !
With the coming of the holiday season, I think I've discovered a problem with my HS system... a problem that may have been there since I had the HS PC die this last summer and had to replace it.
I replaced it with one of those rather tiny PCs that doesn't have any actual COM Ports. Instead, I used two rather generic USB-to-Serial port convertors.
Everything worked fine until I went to use my remote on our Christmas lights, which I rigged up using last year's house codes and unit codes. I discovered that my W800 only "clearly" receives house codes 1-4 and 8-12. For all others, it gives that standard message that says the data it received is not "actionable".
After searching here, I've found several posts with the EXACT same issue. And the root cause apparently has always been the use of USB-to-Serial convertors.... usually fixed by switching instead to using onboard com ports.
Well, I don't have that luxury.
So, I saw references to Edgeport and Rockport USB-to-Serial converters working. But a quick check of Amazon shows me some pretty high prices ($70?) on those... making me wonder if I'm looking at older models or something?
Can anybody recommend an affordable USB-to-Serial convertor that is known to work with the W800's ?
Thanks!
-= Dave =-
With the coming of the holiday season, I think I've discovered a problem with my HS system... a problem that may have been there since I had the HS PC die this last summer and had to replace it.
I replaced it with one of those rather tiny PCs that doesn't have any actual COM Ports. Instead, I used two rather generic USB-to-Serial port convertors.
Everything worked fine until I went to use my remote on our Christmas lights, which I rigged up using last year's house codes and unit codes. I discovered that my W800 only "clearly" receives house codes 1-4 and 8-12. For all others, it gives that standard message that says the data it received is not "actionable".
After searching here, I've found several posts with the EXACT same issue. And the root cause apparently has always been the use of USB-to-Serial convertors.... usually fixed by switching instead to using onboard com ports.
Well, I don't have that luxury.
So, I saw references to Edgeport and Rockport USB-to-Serial converters working. But a quick check of Amazon shows me some pretty high prices ($70?) on those... making me wonder if I'm looking at older models or something?
Can anybody recommend an affordable USB-to-Serial convertor that is known to work with the W800's ?
Thanks!
-= Dave =-
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