Interesting. I know when I had my Tivo, I had it down low and when sitting at couch, sometimes I had to lean forward when using remote because coffee table was in the way and caused signal to get lost.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roh ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] radio frequency receivers > > >I don't know if lirc supports it, but there are RF recievers for > >Linux; that's pretty much all you need. (Well, obviously on the > >software side, lirc support) > > > >On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:08:02PM -0700, skeeterskip wrote: > > > > > > My ceiling fan has this cool radio frequency remote. I can have my > > > back turned to fan and still control fan with remote. I'm wondering > >if > > > anyone knows how to make such a remote for lirc. > > > a couple of things: > 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). > > 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. > > 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!) > > 4) a long time ago i seen a project that was using a soundcard and some > custom hardware to detect RF signals, i forget the name or links (was years > ago) but it had something to do with HAM radio and packet radio, maybe hunt > around those projects and u'll find this one. i never used it but remember > thinkin how cool it was at the time. > > regards, > > rohbags. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail is now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to > http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
