Device control via the Serial port

hello

I'm working on a project involving power line communication between PCs using the serial port. But in addition, I also want to be able to send serial data that will be received by a simple digital network and used to control a set of devices. I've seen it done with the serial port but can it be implemented similarly using the serial port maybe using a serial-in register to receive the serial data and then a logic circuit to switch various devices depending on the data in the register?

Easiest to do it with a PIC, and far more versatile.

Serial ports generally use UARTS for communication. You can use one to convert the serial data to parallel.

thanks

thanks for you help i think that's enough to get me thinking again