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From: diamant@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48SX Unified Remote Control
Message-ID: <1010006@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 91 20:30:40 GMT
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Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
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>      I want my HP48 to be able to transmit Thomson/RCA Unified Remote/Dimensia
> ir codes.

>    - a single remote for different pieces of equipment simply by changing the

> Although the ir commands for many tvs and vcrs are different, most are easily
> accessible.  If someone would be kind enough to provide the machine code to
> send a single transmission described above, I would be willing to write some
> truly useful programs, as well as provide the remainder of the ir commands.

Great!  As far as I know, no one has done this yet.  Sorry I can't answer your
IR question, but I would like to suggest that you write the program to
work as a learning remote, rather than hardcoded with a particular command
set (maybe in addition to a built in command set -- to access features not
on a particular remote, but on the receiving unit).  Ideally, the program
would be modular enough that the IR routine could be added to several
different types of remote control programs (the IR receiver/generator
portion may be the only part that must be written in ML for performance).


John Diamant
Software Engineering Systems Division
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