RE: PC IR emitters + software

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

It's actually more a worry of the HomeVisions storage for IR commands (i.e.
controlling commands which it sends to the AV components.

My Pronto is set up for every component in the house (my five year old son
hides remotes) so that includes the Denon and TEAC REF 100 micro systems in
the kitchen and the main bedroom, the TEAC REF 300 mini system in the
computer room and my kids TV and video in addition to my AV system. I can
handle my AV system with 255 commands however if I start looking towards
multi room control (or zoning) then 255 possible learned commands is a bit
too small a capacity.

Actually geting the instructions to the HomeVision shouldn't be a problem
as
I intend to control it externally via an ePod.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr John Tankard [mailto:john@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 January 2001 12:19
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] PC IR emitters + software
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> >Probably he is ruling out HomeVision for the same reason
> > that I was thinking ... the 255 IR command storage limit.
>
> >With a pile of remotes learned (plus all husecodes X10)
> >my pronto is well over the 255 learned commands limit and
> >I'm having to work out what I should "prune" to fit it
all in to the
> HomeVision.
>
> >Phil
> Are you worried about  HV receive or send ?
>
> I use pronto & HV but I use IR sequences, so by using just 10
> IR codes in a
> three byte sequence I get 999 commands, its dead easy to
> implement, in my
> case I have a large menus of all my CD collection (in MP3)
> and I can select
> any album (max 999)
> by using a sequence I also find it much easer to programme as
> the selection
> is done in one macro.
>
> Actually I go one step further and programme up the Pronto
> using a Pascal
> programme to write all the album details and generate the IR data to
> transmit, that way if I add a album, it will insert it in the correct
> alphabetical place in the pronto screen, and rename the MP3
> playlist so that
> it is consistent. also it only takes a couple of minutes to alter the
> pronto. it goes something like this
>
> 1. take my standard CCF (which I can alter if necessary)
> 2. decompile
> 3. Run Pascal programme (takes about 30 seconds but generates
> a huge file
> also modifies the playlists)
> 4. recompile
> 5. download to pronto.
>
> HV does not need to be modified as it just outputs a serial
> string including
> the 3 byte sequence which is the playlist name.
>
> If you want to see the macro I will post it, the Pascal
> programme is a bit
> more complex and would not mean much unless you understand the IR data
> formats used.
>
> John
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