RE: [OT] Laptop IRDA and *universal* remote control

["Young, Jeff" <Jeff.Young@xxxxxxx>]

I've seen something like this done with as infrared pickup (IRman) that
plugs into the serial port and running http://www.girder.nl on the pc.

A while back I also looked into using a perl module (RCU) running on a
windows system to pickup and decode IR signals.  Never really took it
forward....

Still interested in doing this myself.

There are a bunch of RF remote (through walls) that you could also use (
ATI/marmitek )

-----Original Message-----
From: Tawn, Jonathan [mailto:jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 January 2004 09:26
To: 'ukha_d@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Laptop IRDA and *universal* remote control


Chaps,

I know this is a little OT, but the people on this list usually can come up
with the answers!

As I've got me old laptop in bits ...

I want to use a standard 'one for all' remote control to perform some very
basic commands on the pc... what I wanted to know is; if the laptop uses a
different freq' for infra-red ... is it just a case of swapping the ir
receive led's ???

Or .. would I be better off doing something else ???.. is there a remote
control that work with pc style IR ??

I'm trying to build a very small, ir controlled laptop based pc... so any
thoughts / comments / solutions would be appreciated.

Mucho thanks,

JT


Jonathan Tawn
EDS Desktop Services.


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