Re: PC RF IR Transmitter

["Tony T" <home@xxxxxxx>]

Jason,

the mouseremote seems to work all over my house (receiver is in loft).
It's a 3 bed detached house, if that helps - havent tried it from the
garden!

Marmitek also do a kit of a better remote and a pyramid receiver. I
bought
this at the same time as the mouseremote for testing various things.

I expect theoretically the pyramid could be used, but don't blow up your
pc!
I suspect I may need to add a diode to the board I stripped out, to
help
protect my pc...

Regards
Tony T

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Lee" <jasonjlee@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PC RF IR Transmitter


I'm very interested, and have a few questions for you.

What kind of range do you get on the mouseremote?

I would like to use one of those for house control of the Showshifter
box.

You say you had the original mouseremote 'remote', what did you replace
it
with?

Do you think a similar thing could be done with the transmitter end of
a
pair of powermids?

Then I get to keep the mouseremote as a mouseremote, and shred one of
the
powermids..

Look forward to your reply

Jason



----- Original Message -----
  From: Tony T
  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 9:34 PM
  Subject: [ukha_d] PC RF IR Transmitter


  Hi All,

  Don't know if anyone will be interested in this, but it may be of
use to
  someone.

  Having got the ntl box under the control of the ha pc and installing
a
  mouseremote to allow control of it from anywhere in the house
(thanks to
  everyone who gave advice), I moved on to the next project of trying
to get
  the ha pc capable of controlling all of the IR devices in the
house.

  The obvious choice was to cable up ir emitters all over the house,
but i'm
  too lazy for that ;-)

  I had some bits left over (namely the original mouseremote 'remote'
and a
  powermid receiver).
  It ocurred to me that if I could get the ha pc to operate the
remote, I
  could just setup a few powermid receivers around the house to relay
the ir
  commands.

  Breaking open the remote revealed a small pcb daughter board
containing
the
  rf transmitter just begging to be removed. After a bit of soldering
to a 9
  pin plug (2 connections tx, gnd) and a bit of freeware software
(winsamp)
  the ha pc can now send ir as rf directly to powermids :-)
  It should also be able to send X10 commands directly to TM13U's etc
as
well,
  not sure if that's any use though.

  Now I just need to build a small ir receiver to let me sample all of
the
  remotes (winsamp happened to have a predefined sample which matched
my
  video)..

  Regards
  Tony T

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