RE: xPL FirM Serial

[Shane Harrison <shane.harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,

Currently as you know I use FirM (still trialling as I haven't got into our
new house yet !!) with a serial interface and use LIRC to decode the IR.
Would it be possible to use the USB UIRT to do the decoding, but rather
than
regenerate the optical IR to feed into the USB UIRT could be directly
couple
the electrical IR signals and avoid the optical connection for both TX and
RX?

or is that what you are doing since it isn't clear from you description
what
the interface is between the FirM serial and the USB UIRT....?

Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:fmcalind@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, 20 September 2004 11:17 p.m.
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] xPL FirM Serial
>
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> Hi Shane
>
> > Don't understand the purpose of the USB UIRT
>
> Im my case using the USB UIRT Hopefully will extend my ir library from
256
> (max in homevision)
> to many many more.....
> The USB UIRT does all the hard work like Homevision ie ..learns ie
signals
> encodes and decodes them.........When the USB UIRT receives an ir
signal
> the plugin "xpl uirt" reports the signal to the xPL
network...The User can
> create a Determinator to watch for this particular xpl message
> and then send
> ir to a FirM Zone by sending  two xPL messages first one to
> xPL-FirM ....ie
> tx zone number and then a second message to xPL UIRT  (with a short
delay
> between) the actual ir signal which gets passed onto the USB
> UIRT....Even 3
> pieces of hardware is involved its quite quick....
>
> Hardware .....USB UIRT......FirM Serial.......FirM
>
> Software.......xPL UIRT.....xPL FirM.....Determinators...
>
> HTH
> Frank
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Harrison" <shane.harrison@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:06 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] xPL FirM Serial
>
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> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > I'm interested but got a bit lost :-)
> >
> > Don't understand the purpose of the USB UIRT.  I can sort of
understand
> that
> > it is useful as it can convert an IR signal to an xPL message
> (am I right
> ?)
> > but don't understand how the zoning information is passed to it,
through
> it,
> > over it...
> >
> > An ASCII picture might help or it might confuse me :-)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Shane
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:fmcalind@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Monday, 20 September 2004 10:25 p.m.
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] xPL FirM Serial
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > >         Thought some might be interested so have pasted
> (below)  a part
> of
> > > my post to the xPL List of my progress so far...........Im
> using the USB
> > > UIRT which has a xPL plugin  ....and can send ir from the
USB
> > > UIRT to any of
> > > my 8 FirM Zones....using USB UIRT / FirM Serial / FirM and
of course
> > > xPL...........Quite surprized how responsive this setup
actually
> > > is.....Now
> > > got to do the zone receiving ..so xPL can take actions
depending on
> which
> > > zone a signal came from.......
> > > More Soon
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > >         Well it looks like everyone is busy with work at the
> moment..which
> > > is good .....
> > > Just a little update on my progress with my xpl serial FirM
> > > Interface........
> > > During the week nights i put the hardware together and have
been
> > > modding my
> > > tvosd code to use on the FirM Serial ....
> > > At the moment have got the config messages working  and have
just got
> the
> > > transmit zoning working ;-)).....
> > > I have a FirM system setup on my computer desk with a zone
receiver
> > > connected to zone 1...The ir out of FirM goes to an emitter
> > > adjacent the USB
> > > UIRT.....I send a vol up signal from my dvd remote to the
FirM
> > > receiver..onto FirM and out to the USB UIRT ... xpl uirt
reports
> > > back to xPL
> > > (Thanks John)...a Determinator runs........sends a zone 4
command to
> > > xpl-FirM (via devcom) and another action (within the same
> determinator)
> > > sends my ha menu signal and it works ok.........
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