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Re: IR Learning Translator

Subject: Re: IR Learning Translator
From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:08:33 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
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"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

>Probably one of the most frequent wrong assumptions about IR ports is that
>those found on PCs (IRDA) can be used to control A/V gear.  Pace apparently
>has muddied that water!

Actually, the IrDA spec and most IrDA chipsets have included Consumer IR for
several years but there's little or no software that makes use of it and
transmit range tends to be minimal requiring stick-on emitters.

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