You may want to check out GlobalCache (http://globalcache.com/).
Depends on how much $$ you want to spend, but they have what basically
amounts to an IR router, that can be controlled through a serial port.
I don't have one, but a friend does, and likes it a lot. I'm
considering getting one as the first step in creating an IP-based wifi
remote control.
Erik Karlin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:49:56AM -0500, Robert Denier wrote:
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:58 -0400, Jim Reith wrote:
At 10:11 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote:
[snip]
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
Along these lines, does anyone know how to control a cable box via
direct USB connections? I know my cable box has a USB port, and if I
hook up a USB keyboard to it, I can change the channels by hitting the
number keys.
The only thing that comes to mind that might be reasonably easy would be
to
1) First make sure you can do what you need to do with that ordinary usb
keyboard. Write down those keys and how they work.
2) Find a USB infrared keyboard or a PS2 infrared keyboard with a USB
adapter. Connect this.
3) Train LIRC to output keycodes to the LIRC emitter as appropriate and
fill in the details.
Now that is less than a direct method, and to be honest, by skimming the
previous thread is only really useful if you can, at the very least, set
those different keyboard IR receivers to respond to different sets of IR
codes. Of course, if you can just set the cable box to different sets
of IR codes then you really should just do that, since this would be
adding considerable complexity for little gain.
Perhaps someone can think of a simpler way.
Well, I already have an IR receiver and an IR blaster and an IR
keyboard. I'm trying to cut out the IR altogether.
I've kept this thread in my "inbox" for a while, which originally
started my investigation, unfortunately it seemed to just die out.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/58716
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