Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!uwvax!veronica.cs.wisc.edu!elliott From: elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: IR-remote control for the 28s? How about the 48SX? Message-ID: <1991Apr6.232739.18511@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 6 Apr 91 23:27:39 GMT References: Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Distribution: comp.sys.handhelds Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 27 In vkemp@niksula.hut.fi (Vesa KEMPpainen) writes: >I have been useing my hp28s as a remote controller with my TV. It worked >fine, but I got a Memory Lost! and I cant find the code anywhere. I've been wondering if this sort of thing was possible! Since I acquired the 48 last week, it has seemed to me that it would make a wonderfully smart programmable remote control, since it has an IR transciever built in. But it's not clear to me that the range will necessarily be sufficient, nor that the IR signal structure of the HP would be capable of receiving or parroting IR remote control pulses. Can this be done? Has anyone written a program that can learn and echo remote control signals? It would be amazingly handy, especially given the 48's ability to schedule alarms which execute arbitrary programs. Imagine: I leave the HP in the living room and go do something. At the appropriate time it turns on my reciever, tunes in the appropriate channel, activates the VCR and tapes a program, with the stereo soundtrack from the FM sideband, via the receiver. Even just the ability to program in a menu of "macros" of frequently used settings of multiple devices would be very handy. The mind boggles. So please enlighten me! I have not found anything about this in the FAQs... If the current hardware can't support it, it might be a useful extension. -- Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu