BV4618 PIC BASIC PRO

Hi I bought a BV4618 to replace a defunct ILM 216 using Pic Basic Pro, the command is Serout porta.0, N9600, [13]
I just have porta.0 connected to RX and connections to GRD and +5v. I get the message 232 PRESS CR_ but it does not seem to recognise the command from Pic 16f631.The porta.0 and N9600 comms worked fine with the ILM .Any ideas?

The message press CR is to invite you to send a CR (13, 0x0d or '\r') so that the display can automatically determine the Baud rate of the host device, 16f631 in your case.

So the first command to the display must be to send byte 13. As an Alternative a fixed Baud rate can be set by using the appropriate command, in this case you would use a USB to Serial device to set custom parameters using the commands. For more information about the commands see:

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