Mouse control from Pronto - WAS - letsbuyit.com

["Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>]

thanks for the run down Doogie...

Does anyone know if it's possible to control an IR mouse Reciever from a
pronto? I run A PC with a TV out plumbed into my Rf coax network...this
allows me to browse the web and browse digiguide from any TV in the
house...at the moment i use a marmitek mouse-remote to operate it....this
means i still need 2 remotes:-(
I was thinking if the pronto could learn the IR being sent from an IR
mouse,
i could have all on one (especially cool if i could use that zoomy keyboard
feature on the pronto) anyone tried anything similar?

Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doogie Brodie" <dbrodie@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] letsbuyit.com


> >Thats what i've done for the moment....couldn't get all of my
channel
logo's
> >there though....thats where digiguide and painstshop pro came in
handy
;-)
>
> Yep :-)
>
> >Has anyone come up with interesting uses for the home section? I
think I
> >will make this an x10 section for sending commands to
homeseer....but
that
> >sort of fits in the macro section too ?!?!
> >what other ways have people handled the macro / home / device
sections
>
> I barely use the home screen. It has links to my device screens, and
my
system power up button (turn on TV, turn on amp, set tv to sky digital, set
amp to sky digital, set jump to tv favourites page 1) but nothing exciting.
On my Lights control panel, the power button does system shutdown, runs X10
macros etc. It then jumps to home so that it has the switch on system
easily
to hand.
>
> Most of the time I use devices. I don't use the pop up device changer,
I
have next device/ previous device buttons on the screen. Each device has
several tabs which link to the other pages of it. Every screen has a link
to
lights, and a link to TV favourites. Under macros, I have all of the hidden
items used to perform other functions - eg my TV (toshiba) doesn't support
discrete input selection, so have the macros to change to specific inputs
on
there, but these are just aliased to buttons in the proper section. I keep
my timers under there too, so that they are easyish to get to if I want to
change them from the couch (eg, the other day when Sky changed the Simpsons
from 6:30 to 7:00 and it switched itself on only to find Happy Days
onscreen....! Quick change and everything was right in the world again :-)
Damn you Sky for trying to make me watch such poop!
>
> <RANT SUBJECT="Sky Dodgital">
>
> (Is it just me or has Sky One quality been plummeting recently? I mean
content wise, not technically -  Smash Hits TV and the Dream Team seem to
be
on all the time at the weekend - new Simpsons at 18:30, new Futurama at
20:30 with a Simpsons repeat and bloody Dream Team in the middle - I
wouldn't watch that if they gave me free subscription!. And they've lost
first run to Friends to E4, which still hasn't been confirmed as being
available on Sky Digital, even though it launches in like 6 days.....
>
> </RANT>
>
>
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