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Pioneer Elite 1130HD and MSC-400
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Post 1 made on Tuesday July 28, 2009 at 12:36
Gravitas
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I'm having some issues getting these two to work together over RS-232...

This is basically my first time using rs-232 so bear with me. The sequence im supposed to be sending is 02h**PON03h for power on. MSC Editor displays this in its database as //x02**PON//x03. However, When entered manually i get /x02**PON/x03 (notice the slashes) and this manually enetered appears as a different hex sequence. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Also, is the ** "unit ID" supposed to be a specific character set or just **.
Post 2 made on Tuesday July 28, 2009 at 16:55
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Most of the time either 00 or FF will be recognized as all unit id's by most devices
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Post 3 made on Tuesday July 28, 2009 at 21:30
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For Pioneer consumer models ** (asterisk asterisk) is the ID.
You are correct about the single versus double slashes. I don't know why URC used doubles; they don't work but singles do.
There is an old thread about Pioneer displays and the MSC-400 that talks about not checking the "automatically add carriage return" box and entering it as part of the command.
If you do a search over the last 3 years in the URC forum you may find it.
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Post 4 made on Friday September 25, 2009 at 00:53
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Pioneer Elite codes listed in the MSC400 files have double slashes, they should be single. Also, the red and white wires of the MSC 400 RS232 cable have to crossed (splice red to white and white to red) to get the Plasma to respond. Spent about 12 hours over a three week period trying to get control and finally did it today. The MSC400 RS232 cable is straight through (pin 2 to 2 and 3 to 3).
It should be 2on one end th 3 on the other.
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Post 5 made on Friday September 25, 2009 at 11:01
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The docs on the URC website state that all the MSC RS232 cables are null modem (crossed) cables.

My experience has been that they are crossed cables. It's very possible that the Pio requires a straight through cable and that's the reason you had to modify the cable.

If you do a lot of installs using RS232 control, it pays to carry a few of the RJ45->DB9 m/f modular adapters:



The DB9 connector pins on these adapters are configurable so you can cross the send and receive pins if it is required. Much cleaner than splicing the MSC RS232 cable.
Post 6 made on Friday September 25, 2009 at 15:17
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All Pioneer plasmas use straight pass-through (2 to 2, 3 to 3) for RS-232.
Several years bag there were a few from the NEC plant (NEC chasis) that used cross-over cables.
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