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Subject: 
Listening to IR via NQC
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date: 
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:09:11 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.!Spamless!org
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I know that NQC can send IR messages; can it -- or any other command-line
program -- listen to the IR port and dump any incoming messages to a file
(or stdout)?

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Listening to IR via NQC
 
(...) If I understand you correctly, then this is more difficult than it sounds, because the IR tower shuts down after a few seconds after the PC stops transmitting. Things work fine if the PC initiates a conversation (e.g. by asking the RCX to send (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
  Re: Listening to IR via NQC
 
(...) You can sometimes fake it by sending "bad" codes in -raw mode with verbose mode turned on (-v) and a long timeout (-t). For example, to examine the Lego remote codes I kept typing this: nqc -v -t 2000 -raw 10 Since I didn't have an RCX around (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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