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Re: LRemote version 1.1 available
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:42:11 GMT
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Thanks for all the nice comments.
I've spent some time searching the web about IR. Since the Palm uses the
IrDA standard and so do PCs, I figured that someone must have written some
sort of remote control for PCs. And maybe they would have source code. It
seems that the general consensus is that it can't be done reliably.
Especially working for both input and output. We would need a reliable input
in order to use the Palm for anything but the most basic remote control
functions. Since no one has done it for PCs (at least that I was able to
find) I don't think it can be done for the Palm.
The OmniRemote is the only possible exception to all this. Robert, according
to your web page (http://www.bestnetdesign.com/palm/), "some buttons still
work only intermittently". If this is still the case, I don't think we can
use the built-in Ir on the Palm. Another way to go is to add some sort of
hardware adapter to the Palm. This would give us additional range too, it
seems most (?) Palms have a range of only a few feet. Gary Mayhak
(www.talestuff.com) might be able to come up with something. He told me he
had an RCX too.
Would folks be willing to spend $$ to buy some sort of add-on to their Palm?
-Mike
Robert Eddings <webmake@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:38337058.C3DC4F31@bellsouth.net...
> Mike,
> I like the improvements you made to LRemote and the new web site looks
> great. The section on connecting to the tower that shows the minifig
> laying buzz saw to cable is just too funny!
>
> One suggestion is that when you describe taking the back off the IR
> tower, you may want to caution people to take note of the 9V battery's
> polarity. With the cover off there is nothing to stop you from placing
> the positive and negative in reverse on the contacts. This may damage
> the IR tower if the battery is backwards.
>
> I'm still working on the internal IR problem but it has me stumped at
> the moment. There is output and it can only be the serial data being
> sent but it still does not work. There must be something that the LEGO
> IR tower does to the data besides just turning the high and low voltage
> to pulses of IR. Perhaps one of the electrical engineers in
> lugnet.robotics has more info on this.
>
> Thanks again for the best Palm to RCX programs available!
> Robert Eddings
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| (...) Hmm. On the OmniRemote website, they make this statement: "The (3Com OS3.0 upgrade card) IR is more powerful than a true Palm III, more powerful than the OmniRemote Module and sometimes even more than the original remote." This leads me to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Re: LRemote version 1.1 available
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| Mike, I like the improvements you made to LRemote and the new web site looks great. The section on connecting to the tower that shows the minifig laying buzz saw to cable is just too funny! One suggestion is that when you describe taking the back (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.palm)
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