TV (and others) remote control with laptop

[Marten Kemp]

Here's a project I'd like to assault One Of These Days:
using the IR capability of a laptop to control the teevee,
CD player, DVD player, cable teevee box and other kinds of
entertainment electronics. I have a couple of old working
Thinkpads that I can dedicate to the project.

Anyone have some pointers to a place to start?
Google gives me either too many or too few hits.

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[glog]

Here's a project I'd like to assault One Of These Days:
using the IR capability of a laptop to control the teevee,
CD player, DVD player, cable teevee box and other kinds of
entertainment electronics. I have a couple of old working
Thinkpads that I can dedicate to the project.

Anyone have some pointers to a place to start?
Google gives me either too many or too few hits.

Marten..... a couple of years ago I ran across a web site that had
hundreds of the indivual codes by function, used by remote controls.
Can't find it in my archives, but I found this:

http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2004/03/30/1/

Maybe a starting point.

Regards
Lee in Toronto

 

[Marten Kemp]

Marten..... a couple of years ago I ran across a web site that had
hundreds of the indivual codes by function, used by remote controls.
Can't find it in my archives, but I found this:

http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2004/03/30/1/

Maybe a starting point.

Regards
Lee in Toronto

Thanks.

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[Marten Kemp]

Thanks.

After a lot of slogging through Google hit lists
I found this: http://www.lirc.org/



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