[iPAQ] Universal Remote

the ir sender would
not have enough power to be used as a remote control

What I have learned from www.remotecentral.com is that there a few apps
for WinCe. Unfortunately I have no desire to go that route. They also
are saying that the iPaq has better IR than palm or HP. Approx 3 meters.
That could work fine for me. I do recall when I had CE on the ipaq that
I was impress with the distance I was able to sync with.

I am using mpg123 on the MP3 player I build. I am using it because it
will pull a play list from an http server. So the Mp3 player mounts via
NFS a shared dir in my home office where the central media server is. I
wrote a one line shell script that kicks off a play list via an http
server and plays the mp3s via the mounted drive. Now I just have to
create a web based interface to run it all so I can connect and
disconnect via the ipaq and dillio and wireless. I need the process to
keep running on the mp3 player after I disconnect. So, the mp3 player is
almost taken care of. I should also be able to use the same box to run
home movies on the HDTV.

I just can't change the channels yet.

As Microsoft heats up the connected home race I am sure they will be
leveraging CE as the Universal Remote. I am just trying to do it all on
Unix based systems.

If my TV was web based I would be set :)

As dillio comes along it will be even better. Currently I am managing
all my devices beside my Qube with the iPaq..

Thanks,

Warren

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>Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Universal Remote
>From: Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
>To: ipaq@handhelds.org
>Date: 04 Jan 2002 15:45:50 -0700
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>from what I remember hearing on the list was that the ir sender would
>not have enough power to be used as a remote control. One suggestin I
>thought of was to have a remote recive that could be plugged into an mp3
>player and then controlled with a universal remote.
>
>Bill W
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>On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:23, Warren Ponder wrote:
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>>I must say congrats to all the work people have done so far on the ipaq=20
>>efforts. I have been out of the loop for almost a year.
>>=20
>>I have a question though. Does any one know of anyone that is working on
>>=20
>>a universal remote app for linux/ipaq? I built a mp3 player and tied it=20
>>into my entertainment system and am controlling it with my
>>linux/ipaq. I would love to be able to change the channels on the tv.
>>=20
>>Thanks,
>>=20
>>Warren
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>Message: 2
>From: "Matthew Robinson" <matt@zensunni.org>
>To: <ipaq@handhelds.org>
>Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Universal Remote
>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:32:28 -0000
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>From: "Bill Warner" <wwarner@direct-alliance.com> on Friday, January 04,
>2002 10:45 PM
>
>>from what I remember hearing on the list was that the ir sender would
>>not have enough power to be used as a remote control. One suggestin I
>>thought of was to have a remote recive that could be plugged into an mp3
>>player and then controlled with a universal remote.
>>
>
>There is a remote control application like this for the WinCE on the iPAQ so
>I don't see why it shouldn't be possible under Linux. I haven't used the
>WinCE program but you can find it at http://www.pdawin.com
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Matt
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>>On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:23, Warren Ponder wrote:
>>
>>>I must say congrats to all the work people have done so far on the ipaq
>>>efforts. I have been out of the loop for almost a year.
>>>
>>>I have a question though. Does any one know of anyone that is working on
>>>
>>>a universal remote app for linux/ipaq? I built a mp3 player and tied it
>>>into my entertainment system and am controlling it with my
>>>linux/ipaq. I would love to be able to change the channels on the tv.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Warren
>>>
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>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:41:47 -0800 (PST)
>From: Ron F <newbdev@yahoo.com>
>To: ipaq@handhelds.org
>Subject: [iPAQ] Universal Remote
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>I believe the lirc and lirc-modules .ipk's and pymote
>provide this functionality, though, for the life of
>me, I can't figure out how to make it work. If anyone
>gets it to work, could you post the sequence of module
>loads(irda,irtty,ircomm-tty, lirc_sir) and combination
>of irattach, lircd, lircmd, and pymote.py command
>invocations to get it working. That would really be
>helpful.
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> Ron
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>
>>I have a question though. Does any one know of anyone
>>that is working on
>>a universal remote app for linux/ipaq? I built a mp3
>>player and tied it
>>into my entertainment system and am controlling it
>>with my
>>linux/ipaq. I would love to be able to change the
>>channels on the tv.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Warren
>>
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>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:50:11 -0400 (AST)
>From: James MacLean <macleajb@EDnet.NS.CA>
>To: Warren Ponder <warren.ponder@sun.com>
>cc: <ipaq@handhelds.org>
>Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Universal Remote
>
>I see lirc_sir.o which is called "Linux Consumer IR Driver (LIRC) for
>iPAQ" in the kernel, but has the same module name I think as "Linux
>Infrared Remote Control". Either way, I wonder if http://www.lirc.org/
>would port ok or has been ported as it works fine on my LapTop :). I'd
>give it a go but our iPAQ is with someone else this weekend :(.
>
>JES
>
>On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Warren Ponder wrote:
>
>>I have a question though. Does any one know of anyone that is working on
>>a universal remote app for linux/ipaq? I built a mp3 player and tied it
>>into my entertainment system and am controlling it with my
>>linux/ipaq. I would love to be able to change the channels on the tv.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Warren
>>
>
Received on Mon Jan 7 05:48:16 2002