hi guys, thanks for the replies,
I have a problem in that i have no time to do this myself,im so busy with other aspects of this project aswell as work etc, so i need a bit more than help.
Ideally i need someone to take a design brief and then go off and do the software and bring me a finished program.
Ok, basically heres what needs doing;
**The software can deal with upto 50 external devices,
**Each device needs to be "SYNCed" so it knows its channel number and who its master is
**Once synced, all it needs to do is have a setup box for each device that defines all of its setting (temp, humidity, lights on/off, temperature profile etc)
When you press "UPDATE" all these settings will be sent to the device required through a series of commands. As well as this i would like the computers clock to be used to update the time on the devices.
**If a device is opened up on the computer screen then it will request information from the device every 5 seconds or so and display it on the computer screen
Again this is done through a series of commands.
**There will also be alarms built into this thermostat for various things, when an alarm goes off it will send the info to the computer and display it on screen and also store it in a log of some sort
Communication will be done through COM port, i am using a FT232R chip.
This is a basic outline of what i need to get done.