TechHome wrote: 
> Thanks John, the Touch now feeds an Audiosource power amp with signal
> sensing on the input, but it's good to know this now works.  Can you
> please explain what raw mode is?  I used the IR signal capture feature
> of IR Balster to record the codes; will these codes work?  BTW, in
> another room, a SB2 feeds a 5.1 system and IR Blaster works brilliantly.
> When the SB2 is powered it turns the receiver on, switches the input to
> CD & turns on the B-speakers;  for SB2 power off: B-speakers off, input
> to Video1 and receiver power off.  
> 
> For the record, I like the Touch, we use it every day and it's growing
> on me.  I greatly appreciate the tips you folks have provided in this
> thread.  However, I do believe the old SB2/3 platform is pretty well
> optimized in terms of usability, but I see so much untapped potential in
> the Touch, such as expanded use of gestures and better
> quick-launch/shortcut support.  Is there a preferred way to submit
> feature requests?
> 
> Doug

I'm not an expert on IR Blaster, I've tested it to make sure it works
but that is as far as I've gotten. If my understanding is correct raw
mode is very low level information on how the IR beam is modulated. But
this is a large  sequence of information for each button. There are
several standards for how IR data is encoded, these allow you to have a
short set of characters to represent what gets sent. Most manufacturers
publish these encodings (or at least users have figured out what they
are), you can type these into the IRBlaster config file. Unfortunately I
think the learning feature of IR Blaster uses raw mode, it just records
exactly what's happening with the IR beam without figuring out what the
encoding is. So unfortunately you probably cannot just directly use
those learned "button pushes" with the Touch. 

All is not lost though. If you can find out what the "codes" are for the
devices you wish to control, you can put THOSE into the config file and
it should  work. There are several web sites that maintain massive
databases of such control codes, so the probability of finding them is
pretty high. 

John S.


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