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Old 19 January 2002, 12:57 PM
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Bit of a long story, but here goes.

I have one of these One for All remote control extender jobs so that I can control the VCR/SKY in another room. I noticed last night that the transmitter, which is close to the PC, was blinking away like mad every 5 seconds or so, after a bit of thought I found that it was the IR port (USB unit) on my PC that was causing this (looking for an IR device near it).

So I got to thinking, does anyone know of a piece of software that I can install on the PC and set up to control my VCR/SAT using the PC's IR port ??. I had a quick look at Remote Central and CNET but did not see anything obvious.

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Old 21 January 2002, 10:42 PM
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Anyone ???
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Why don't you just go with something like a QED roomlink and a pronto?
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sasim

this may help.

http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/circuits/PCIR/Welcome.html

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/remote.html

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[Edited by scoobs - 1/21/2002 11:21:15 PM]

[Edited by scoobs - 1/21/2002 11:23:49 PM]
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