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Subject:	Re: (Slightly Offtopic:) WinAmp remote control via IR Tower
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:47:01 GMT
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Well! A kind soul pointed me to: http://henrik.husted.net/winamp.htm which has a neat Winamp plugin that allows the program to be controlled by the serial port. Now I just need to convince the IR tower to play nice with others. The plugin tries to open Com 2 (where my tower's plugged in), but Windows says the port's in use. Normally, I'd say that some other app's using the com port, but there's nothing (except Mindstorms, which is not active) on my computer that talks to the com port. No fax programs, no serial mice, nuthin'. Just the IR tower. Couple general questions. Does Mindstorms have some sort of TSR that "owns" the com port the IR tower is attached to? What communications parameters does the tower use? 8N1? Do there exist raw serial port data displays, so I can see whether or not I'm getting any input at all from the serial port? If this isn't the appropriate forum for this message, please let me know (gently), along with any suggestions as to other venues. Thanks in advance! > > SNIP<<

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		Re: (Slightly Offtopic:) WinAmp remote control via IR Tower
(...) Mindstorms uses an ActiveX control called SPIRIT.OCX to communicate with the IR tower. As far as I know, it only opens the COM port when some application is actually using the .OCX, so the port should be available for use if you're not running (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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		(Slightly Offtopic:) WinAmp remote control via IR Tower
Okay. No rotten tomatoes, but this post is slightly outside the scope of this newsgroup. However, I really think that the interest in a question like this is going to be high, so here goes. Browsing WinAmp's plugin page, I found a snazzy little (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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