RE: ir transmitter some success

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>]

> >Hope Fatherhood is treating you well ;)
> So far so good. You have no idea how pleased I am that we fathers
cannot
> breast feed the little one!!

Oh trust me, I do :)


>
> Indeed this is the IR extender project.
>
> >I assume you are using a PIC in each receiver to decode the IR
signal and
> >then adding a station-id
> Yes to this bit.


>
> >to a master device which
> >can then transmit to the destination.
> No, not really. Since this is a multi master bus (485) I plan to have
the
> devices transmitting either to a PC based node or a generic IR
broadcast.


Ah, I would have gone to a seperate master which would translate between
485
and 232, I assumed 485 cards for PC's were very expensive and not easy
to
integrate to 1U cases etc


> >I noticed on your IR extender project that you have run out
> >of registers for the data
> Already sorted. I just had to double the number I had initially
available
> which was a programming task only.

Ah, I was assuming you meant not enough RAM in the PIC, dunno why as it
defintely says registers ;)

I am starting work on the SNAP protocol
> side of things now. I have some partially working code which I need
to
> modify but that is very time consuming.

This any use? http://www.hth.com/filelibrary/snap/usrcode/PICTOOLS.ZIP




> Soon........ish.........maybe.........


If I can help, let me know.

Cheers, Des.



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