Re: Re: PC IR Control

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Keyvan

> Had a porblem with learning though - could not
> get it to learn commands from a LG LCD TV remote

I had the same problem with learning codes for a LG TV  for Homevision as
well as CBUS..
I *think* the issue is that it may use rc5 format which uses a toggle bit
to
indicate a new key press...How i sort of got around the problem was to
learn
two consecutive presses from a button  (one with the toggle bit set and the
other reset)....hopr  that makes some sense........
Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: "keyvan2r" <keyvan@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 4:43 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: PC IR Control


> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@a...>
wrote:
> > > BTW I'm the UK stockist so you could have it next working
day!
> >
> > Darren
> >
> > Post like this should have [ADVERT] in the subject line and are
> limited to
> > one per month as in this groups guidelines.
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> > Do you have anyone that could send in a review of this unit for
> the website?
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> > Thanks
> >
> > M.
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> I bought one of these (USBUIRT) for a new HTPC/HA pc for a plasma
> viewing area. The other pc has slinke, Homeseer, MLserver etc. on
> it. It's seems to work fine using all my pronto learned and
> dowloaded IR codes. Had a porblem with learning though - could not
> get it to learn commands from a LG LCD TV remote. I was using the
> MLserver plugin for the learning. The only software provided is the
> windows usb drivers and a girder file. There is no software
> applications, for learning, sending ir, etc - it needs to be used
> with 3rd party software like (mostly) girder. I am using it with ML
> server and it's working very well indeed as an IR commander. Don't
> really use the IR receive feature as all commands are sent via
> wireless airpanel with mainlobby. The pc does not get ir commands.
> The ir database for my devices was built with the plugin which lets
> you cut and paste IR codes from pronto edit and assign names to the
> ir commands for use in ML commands. There is a macro facility with
> delay and parameter passing. It's a simple but effective
> combination.
> The hardware is simple but well built and IR range with the built-in
> blaster seems very good. It gets power from the usb bus. There seems
> to be some issues with using the jack output port with xantech
> splitters due to voltage mis-match. But I think I read on their
> forum that it works with amplified xantech splitters.
> All things considered, it's relatively cheap and does the job if you
> have the software setup in your HA config. Not that useful if you
> are not using one of the software apps that support it.
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> Keyvan
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