Re: Mouse control from Pronto - WAS - letsbuyit.com

[Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxx>]

I've an ir receiver on my pc which I use to control the pc including the
mouse and operate it through an ir repeater. Didn't cost much from
www.evation.com and I use IRassistant for the software.

Jeff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:48 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Mouse control from Pronto - WAS - letsbuyit.com


> 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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