Never tried it in all hex good suggestion. I found an older RS232 post talking about using hyperterminal. For whatever reason I couldn't get my other port monitor to see a response so I thought I was having some type of connection issue. As soon as I got a response over hyperterminal it didn't take long to write the plugin for eventghost.

I send the beginning and end characters as chr(02) and chr(03) in Python(eventghost).