RE: Re: Kat5 IR upgrades

[Keith Doxey]

> From: mvankleef
> Subject: [KAT5] Re: Kat5 IR upgrades
>
>
> I too have been eagerly looking forward to the elusive IR repeater
> support, but I need to be able to control both 'normal' RC5/RC6 as
> well as (more importantly) an IRDA source. The latter is a real
> pain as there are very few solutions on the market. At the moment
> I'm looking at redeye <www.redremote.co.uk> and Digieye
> <www.digisender.net> as they seem the only reasonable ones that
at
> least support IRDA.
> Are there any views on these, or news on support for these protocols
> in the Kat5 solution ?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

Hi Mike.

The IR upgrades will NOT support IRDA at launch as they will be built
around
standard 38kHz IR systems, however it should be possible to add it later.
The main reason is wont be available at launch is that I dont have any IRDA
kit that I could use for development.

As far as I am aware, (correct me if I am wrong) the only items of IRDA kit
that are in fairly common use are some CableTV boxes. As I cant get cable
TV
I dont have any way of testing/developing and IRDA solution.

If you know of any Digiboxes, Freeview/OnDigital boxes or DVD players that
use IRDA and that arent too expensive then let me know and I will try and
get hold of one.

Hope that helps

Keith