Re: IR and SLIMP3

[Stuart Booth <lists@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:54:40 +0100, Chris Langridge <chrisl@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Those of you who have a SLIMP3 player have possibly thought about using
the
>IR in a couple of different ways so as to reduce the number of remotes
>around the house.
>
>SCENARIO 1
>The idea is to place a slimp3 in every room and use that as a general
IR
>receiver rather than having an additional standalone IR receiver in
>every room. So is there a way to get the IR codes off the SLIMP3 server
and
>on to a more conventional IR gateway/distribution system.

Yes, you can pick up messages from the Slim server when it receives IR
commands. Haven't got around to doing anything useful with this data
yet, and I think it's limited in the type/brand of IR commands it can
receive. This is something that's on my ToDo list but I've been
massively busy lately :(

>SCENARIO 2
>A different approach would simply be to NOT use the SLIMP3's IR
reciever at
>all, and use instead a standard whole house IR distribution system. In
this
>'mode' you would need to get the IR codes from the IR distribution
system
>into SLIMP3. Is there a way to do this without sticking an emitter onto
the
>front on the beautiful SLIMP3 player?

Yes, again! Some kind of IR to xAP gateway could be setup such that
you control your Slim via xAP command messages. I control my Slim with
xAP for instance. Very useful.

S
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Stuart Booth
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