Hi, I did a bit of work to read the feeder indexing commands from an RV and support an alternative feeder.
This is the first version I have built to get a feel for how well it will work. The Arduino mega with shield can support 48 lanes which are decoded from RV Bank and Lane data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z8uYMSt6EE
This feeder built is linked below and I adapted the code to read in RV indexing commands on one UART and feed it into the existing code to drive the appropriate feeder.
https://www.docs.mgrl.de/maschine:pickandplace:feeder:0816feeder:mechanics
Hopefully I will progress further to get something robust enough to get some proper testing done on it.
Trev