From: George Styles <george_at_ripnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:52:03 +0100

I am VERY interested in this... it sounds like a really cool idea.

The only thing that was putting me off was the fact that I dont know much
about PICs and LCDs...

g

----- Original Message -----
From: "ActiveSystems" <activesystems_at_caverock.net.nz>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Remote control with display


> I haven't tried it in practice but I would think that you can connect an
> output pin and the UART Rx pin together (with a current limiting resistor
on
> the output pin).
>
> Bit-bash outgoing control signals from the remote - clear/ignore any
> received data in the Rx buffer after sending something. Then just monitor
> the Rx via interrupt to receive data sent to the display. Make the output
> high impedance when it's not being used.
>
> hamish
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Tedford" <stuart.tedford_at_piresearch.co.uk>
> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 7:58 PM
> Subject: RE: Remote control with display
>
>
> > Hmmm, on the remote side, how do you both tx and rx data on the same
piece
> > of wire without upsetting the UART?
> >
> > Stu.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ActiveSystems [mailto:activesystems_at_caverock.net.nz]
> > > Sent: 03 October 2002 08:36
> > > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> > > Subject: Remote control with display
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I was checking out the hw spec for the controller in the Jukebox (and
> > > reading some of the old postings to this group).
> > >
> > > Pin PB10 which the remote is connected to is usually
> > > configured as serial
> > > comms port so it can receive async data from the remote.
> > >
> > > The pins on port B can also be configured as a general I/O so
> > > it could quite
> > > easily output data to the remote as well. Good thing about
> > > this is that we
> > > could use this outgoing data to run an external display.
> > >
> > > It should be relatively easy to intermittently reconfigure
> > > PB10 as an output
> > > pin and throw out some data to the remote, then pop it back
> > > in receive mode
> > > to watch for commands from the remote. If the outgoing data
> > > was at 100kbps
> > > or so then it would be unlikely that the player will miss any remote
> > > commands. - 50 bytes of data will only take 5ms. Each line
> > > of text to be
> > > displayed on the remote can have a byte or so of control data
> > > saying if it's
> > > to be scrolled, scrolling speed etc.
> > >
> > > I'd be quite happy to do the remote end of things - sw + pcb
> > > etc for people
> > > wanting to build their own.
> > >
> > > My question is how hard would this be to implement on the
> > > Jukebox? If there
> > > are any existing tasks that are executed at 100kHz or so then
> > > I would think
> > > that you could use that proc to bit-bang any waiting data out
> > > PB10. Can
> > > connect to a UART on the remote micro to receive the data.
> > > Would just have
> > > to check that the o/p on the Archos remote is buffered then
> > > it should still
> > > work.
> > >
> > > thoughts?
> > >
> > > Hamish
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
Received on 2002-10-03