Reading binary data

Lets further clarify what you have done and what are trying to do:

1- You can read in the serial data steam into bytes. yes?

2- You now want to display (send to PC) the value of these bytes.

3- You want to see these bytes in a Text format such as 6C.

4- To do that you need to convert each nibble (4 bits) of each byte into an ASCII character representing the hex value.

5- This is a very common thing to do so search for “hex to ASCII conversion” for arduino.

OR is this not the problem?

1- Is it that you can not get the arduino to read the serial data stream correctly?

2- For that search for “bit banged” serial receiver code or IR remote serial receiver code.

3- This would be an arduino code project.