OK, after pulling my hair out on this i tried simply sending 30 sync commands in a row, one pack command with 30 iterations all at once then started the normal sync and other commands. This worked! Purely a guess that it took many characters for the serial port and cam to sync baud?? but its working. The confusing part was that after the first couple of syncs i would get an ACK but then subsequent commands, like set picture size, would never get a response.

Thunder, the shortcut to find the frame num with hex worked great, removing the leading 0x's did not, complained at runtime. Appreciate you looking at this for me.

In reply to Re^3: Serial camera - Issues connecting by SquareJ
in thread Serial camera - Issues connecting by SquareJ

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