Re: Home IR Control

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43d0375f.722995765@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Jim Stewart quit responding to my e-mail a few years ago. Of course, that
> might just mean that he stopped responding to *my* email - he may have
> looked into the history of the Stewart and Houston clans. ;)

Did you hit him with your curmudgeon cudgel?  :-)  ("Thwow him to the
gwound, Centuwion, vewy woughly!")

> But, the device you have will work with the software you can download from
> the CIR site I referenced earlier - it's the same circuit with one added
> photo diode. If you can't get that software to work but can get other s/w
to
> record, you can analyze the file which is merely a memory image of the
> signal.

It's got a home-brew CD-R that still looks intact although I am worried that
it appears to have an embedded alkaline battery that's probably 8 to 10
years old.  If I change it, it will void the warranty!!!!  The "warranty
void" sticker has to be removed to change it!  (he he he - their website
appears to have been up for only two months in 1998 - I doubt I'll be using
the warranty!)

> BTW, PC Remote is one more device that I introduced to this newsgroup.
> Commander-X was the first s/w to support it.

It's probably why my uncle bought it.  He had a room full of stuff that was
neatly packed with printouts from CHA and other newsgroups along with future
implementation plans.  He kept getting sicker but he apparently never
stopped buying HA stuff even though he never got around to using it.

The best news tonight is that I found another (albeit coverless) CPU-XA from
about the same era at the bottom of the box the PC-Remote was in.  He was
designing an automatic motion triggered videocam recording system just
before he died that used the PC-Remote, the CPUXA and a very early version
of HomeSeer.  As far as I can tell, the stuff's never even been used and the
notes indicate he ended up buying a VCR commander from X-10 to do what all
of this stuff PLUS a PC was supposed to do.

Anyway, is a circa 1998 CPUXA gonna to be able to tell me if the four
oddball IR devices are learnable by a more modern Ocelot?   When you plug in
an external IR receiver, is it just an IR photodiode or can it be a CFL
resistant "smart eye?"

--
Bobby G.