On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:56:24AM +0000, Roh . wrote: > 1) IR dosnt need direct line of sight, u can have ur back turned to a > reciever and still transmit, the light should bounce of the roof/wall (nice > white walls?) and still hit the reciever, i can still use my IR remotes at > home around corners (from one room to another, if ur Tx is strong enough (i > use a 2nd IR led from D.S.E. boosted to about 55ma in my remote, so its > cool)). If its a RF remote u have, to be sure completely cover the remote > (so no light can escape) and see if it works. most of the ceiling fans/air > cons etc for homes ive seen are IR not RF (most, not all).
True, but you can't use it from another room, unless you're very lucky, or exceptionally good with geometry. :) > 2) RF is a lot different to IR. u cant just slap together a homebrew > reciever for RF like u can for IR (u could even end up breakin the law with > RF stuff :O). The only way i could see a RF remote used with lirc is to > say, pull out the reciever/decoder board from ur ceiling fan, make a > interface circuit to use it on the parallel port, and make some mods to > lirc_parallel, maybe ur lucky and the decoder spits out a data format > similar to other parallel IR Rx's. Yes, but there are commercial ones. My One-for-All remote included a RF transmitter that converts RF into IR so you have this little box that sits near your IR reciever, and it'll convert it. Also, the infamous x10 company makes something called a "Mouse Remote" which includes a RF->Serial box. > 3) the only type of generic RF stuff ive seen that would work with linux, > are RF mouses and keyboards, i havnt seen any sort of generic RF remote > control on the market that isnt designed for the win* user. > i use a cheap RF wireless keyboard and mouse and it only works up to about > 5-7meters away, but the IR remote will work 20 meters away or more, and > like i said around corners as well, which this cheap RF stuff cant do (it > struggles to go through plaster!) Here's the remote: http://www.x10.com/automation/x10_mk19a.htm Apparently, lirc CVS includes support for it, but it's less responsive than IR. Aubin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
