Cheap IR PC control

[Alex Goodyear <agood@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I bought an IrDA interface from www.scan.co.uk the other day, it was 15
pounds and described as an IrDA interface that could also control all
other IR based devices. It was branded TERRA (which I think is Scans own
brand name) and the sales person only repeated what the "today
only"
description said. As I was buying the 4x4x20 CR-RW (£145) and twin
ECP/EPP parallel port ISA card (£15) (cheap I/O ports !) I thought I
chance it. It is true, the deivce is actualy an ACTiSYS IR210L
motherboard IrDA-SIR adaptor (www.actisys.com) and when used with
PCremote (www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1475/remotectrl.html) you
can control basically anything on the PC (keys, mouse, programs, API
window messages) with any normal TV/HiFi remote control.  I have used it
with the PowerHouse X10 8 in 1 IR/RF remote and it works from across the
room. The only down side to all this is I haven't been able to get the
thing to transmit yet, the PCremote software is read only.

I also found another site that has lots of IR / RF / Stamp / PC control
stuff - www.rentron.com

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A. Goodyear     agood[AT]@jet[DOT].uk   Ex. 5192

Joint European Torus, K1/0/66, Abingdon, Oxon, UK.




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