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Re: Training OmniRemote for RCX commands
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lugnet.robotics.palm
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:25:05 GMT
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I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think you need the button release command
if you are just using motor control commands.
Mike
Robert Eddings <webmake@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Mike Kory wrote:
> > I don't have OmniRemote but this may help.
> > The normal RCX commands are not consistent. When you send the same • command
> > repeatedly, the command is slightly different on alternate commands. In
> > other words the first time it sends "A" then "B" then back to "A" then • "B"
> > etc. Also, the RCX sends commands back to the Tower on normal commands. • This
> > may also cause some confusion.
> >
> > If you use the Remote Control commands you can get around all of these
> > problems. They are always the same and the RCX doesn't send a response.
> >
> > --Mike
>
> That's good advice. I forgot to mention to Ed that having the RCX on
> will confuse OmniRemote because of the return IR from the RCX. The
> problem I have found with using the LEGO remote commands to train
> OmniRemote is the final d2 command (0x0000) that is needed at the end of
> the command chain. The LEGO remote control repeats the action command
> while the button is pressed and then sends the 0x0000 on button release.
> OmniRemote cannot duplicate this because it does not send "on button
> release" signals. OmniRemote does allow macro commands to be assigned to
> buttons but I don't see how this could help.
>
> Robert Eddings
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 | | Re: Training OmniRemote for RCX commands
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| Mike, Robert - Thanks for your wealth of insight on this. I'm starting to come up to speed, I think. So, the RCX is acknowledging the IR tower command string, based on receipt of a EOS of some sort, perhaps, and OmniRemote can't process that ACK? (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Re: Training OmniRemote for RCX commands
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| (...) That's good advice. I forgot to mention to Ed that having the RCX on will confuse OmniRemote because of the return IR from the RCX. The problem I have found with using the LEGO remote commands to train OmniRemote is the final d2 command (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.palm)
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