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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Universal remote (was Re: 48SX Power)
Message-ID: <9352@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 90 20:37:53 GMT
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In article <8220@darkstar.ucsc.edu> dove@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ray Rischpater) writes:
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>I've been giving that a >lot< of thought lately.  Does anyone have any
>discoveries on low-level access to the IR port?  I've not had time to exper-
>iment, but if someone could give me a few pointers, I'm pretty sure I could
>hack out a programmable remote.

There *was* a remote-control program written for the 28S, which is in our 
  archives here, I think, as well as elsewhere.  Unfortunately, we don't 
  support anon ftp.  If you want a copy, I can email you the whole thing
  or maybe post it, if there's interest.    

>Incidentally, my hallmate's universal remote prints text quite well on my 
>HP IR rev A printer -- although with the same range problems that the
>28s and 48sx have -- it's clear that HP designed the interface to be short
>range.  (I'm not complaining -- just observing.  I love the idea of a 
>wireless anything!)

Have you tried dumping these same characters to the IR port of the 48
  using PR1?  Or setting the 48's serial to 'IR', sending a remote 
  control command, and doing a 'buflen srecv'?  If the printer seems 
  as compatible as you say, it looks like you could write the program in
  user code - it doesn't really have to be that fast in the processing 
  department.

Good luck!

>--     dove@ucscg.ucsc.edu  		  Ray Rischpater     

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