Tmote Sky usart interface to PIC18F2431

I’m working on a project and i need to interface a Tmote Sky module to a PIC18F2431. I’ve been trying to get UART communications working but the mote seems to act odd. When i activate and use the mote’s UART pin it is configured to be idle low and active high and has 2-3 stop bits which obviously does not work well with a PIC. Does anyone have any experience with Tmote Sky modules and interfacing external hardware? Is it possible to configure the UART to be compatible with a PIC? Moteiv’s documentation conveniently sucks. Any help would be great.

i havenet worked with Tmotes before, are you sure its using 2-3 bits, that seems kind of odd for a device made especially for quick startes. are you using TinyOS ? if so try to se the UART0 setup procudure in the tinyOS