I think the port has to be able to do Comsumer-IR. I don't think
that the IR port on the Inspiron is capable. I know that
Texas Instruments makes a chip (TIR-2000) that will do IRDA
and Consumer-IR. The last time I checked you could get it
on a PCI board for ~$100. I think the IR chip in the Inspiron
is an SMC.
Karl Pfleger wrote:
> Long shot here, but is the infra-red port on Inspirons 2-way or send only,
> and if it is capable of receiving data, is there any software that can be
> configured to receive signals from normal TV/VCR remote controls so that
> these remotes can be used to control DVD movie playback?
>
> This seems like an easy technological challenge, but somehow I don't think
> all the right people have gotten together to create the easy pieces of the
> puzzle. Certainly the hardware designers of these notebooks could have made
> the IR port able to receive as well as send. As long as it can receive, it
> would be a simple matter to right software that you can instruct "now I'm
> going to press the play button so make a note that this IR signal means
> play", etc. And this functionality could either be built into the DVD movie
> players or these players could be programmed to respond to interapplication
> messages (whatever the analog in the windows world is to Unix inter process
> signals) and the program responding to the remote could be separate.
>
> Are any of these pieces done? All of them? I can't find very much info on the
> IR port in the stuff from Dell or the Windows on-line help.
>
> -Karl
>
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