Re: IR sending from Zaurus

Ashley J Gittins wrote:

> 
> I have dropped the idea of my Z sending IR as being a practical goal. I don't 
> have the sources I used to build the module any more either, I lost all that 
> on an IBM Deathstar HDD over a year ago.
> 
> I do still have the ipkg available if you wanted to see if it still works - 
> http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au/zaurus
> 
> I now use something more practical - I decided instead to install a lirc 
> transmitter on my server, at the end of a long cat5 cable that runs to the 
> coffee table in the loungeroom. This gives my server the ability to control 
> the home theatre stuff. Then I knocked up some php that calls irsend so I can 
> send ir commands using a webpage, then I can use that webpage on my desktop 
> (I have an AV feed from the lounge to my computer room, so can watch tv from 
> the HDR or cable tv box on desktop using tvtime), or from a laptop or my 
> Zaurus (even my phone had a go at it with some success) - and you don't need 
> to worry about IR range or anything. Much better solution :-)
> 
> Hmm... hadn't thought of it before.. maybe I should document the project so 
> others can have a go at it. Not a great deal to it though.
> 
  Would be good to read.

Your name isn't Cringley by any chance?  8-)

probably most people have probably seen this:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2004/pulpit_20040930_000460.html

"Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his house so 
he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like hardly any of 
us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet, television, and 
telephone. He cancelled his telephone line and cable TV service. Then 
his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew had done, and they cancelled 
their telephone and cable TV services, too, many of them without having 
a wired broadband connection of their own. They get their service from 
Andrew, who added an inline amplifier and put a better antenna in his 
attic. Now most of Andrew's neighborhood is watching digital TV with 
full PVR capability, making unmetered VoIP telephone calls, and 
downloading data at prodigious rates thanks to shared bandwidth. Is this 
the future of home communications and entertainment? It could be, five 
years from now, if Andrew Greig has anything to say about it." (continued).

Run via an SL6000 thin client.



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