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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: IR remote....in the other wayRe: IR remote....in the other way
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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:53:25 +0100 (MET) Hello Damien, IMHO, turning Archos into a remote control is somewhat nonsense (sorry ;) Why should one need that? A remote must be lightweigt, and it must be "always on" - if I want to switch a device, I don`t want to have my remote being booted first :) For me, a remote is a device, which fells on the floor at least 3 times a day and you put your fingers on that while eating chips - you wouldn`t see this happen to your archos ? ;) > it would nevertheless be fun, especially if it can be made very easily. yep - this maybe true - but this will be the only benefit I see so far. Indeed - it`s nice to "fiddle around" with electronics, but I think there is less interest in this being a "rockbox feature" As I see, you somewhat already mention this and just ask for technical feasability. Yes - I think this is possible - though it will be more difficult to implement if just hooking a "dumb" IR-LED to the I/O Port instead of using existing Integrated IR circuit. perhaps http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-07/0031.shtml http://rockbox.haxx.se/mods/rs232.html is a good start!? have fun Regards roland > Hello all, > As there are anew people talking about IR remote for the Archos, I thought > about turning the archos into a IR remote control, in order to command > other > devices such as TV, VCR, etc. As this feature isn't really an useful > feature > it would nevertheless be fun, especially if it can be made very easily. > > I have some weeks ago made a ir serial remote nearly for free, as > explained > on this page http://pc-ir-remote-vb.sourceforge.net/. It used only 1 > component (the IR led), and the 40 KHz carrier was created by the > computer. > I tought it would be possible to create a thing like this running on the > Archos, but I don't know much about what's inside it. So, what do you > think > of this, would it be technically possible ? > > > __________________________ > > ~~~~~~Damien Teney~~~~~~ > ~~~dteney_at_hotmail.com~~~ > ~~~~www.mcarsweb.com~~~~ > ~~~www.sobelairva.net~~~ > __________________________ > -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!Received on 2003-03-29 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |