[vdr] Re: Ready: IR Controller with remote power on

[Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

Am Don, 2002-08-01 um 18.48 schrieb Christian Berger:
> Am Donnerstag, 1. August 2002 20:02 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi list,
> 
> Wow, this definitely looks promising, and seems to be a great piece of 
> work, but I see 2 Problems right now.
> I do have a little idea on how to improve it. You might load one of those 
> gold caps to power the reciever. That way you don't have to use expensive 
> and power-hungry ATX power supplies.
> 
> Problems I currently see:
> 1. It's SMD, that's hard to build at home, unless you are experienced.
> 2. It seems to be really complex, I mean the PIC is a complete computer in 
> a chip. I personally don't like the philosophy of using more and more 
> deciated processors. I'm personally more a fan of using the CPUs already 
> found in a normal computer.
> 
> Well I'd have some additional ideas which might be interresting:
> 
> Channel number-display via graphics card:
>   set your graphics card to the TV line frequencies and connect a little 
> monitor to it (used video camera viewfinder will do)

What frequencies/values do I need to use a TV with RGB on a grapic card?
(I considered to put the VGA on the second SCART with RGB to access the
OS without additional monitor ...)

Is there a setting (e.g. somehing like "vga=791") for kernel-based
frame-buffer-device suitable for normal TV-sets?

Rene

> 
> Voice control:
>   There is cVoicecontrol which worked rather well, last time I tried 
> http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/linux/ You could send commands to VDR :)
> 
> Own remote.
>   Building a remote, especially for VDR. I've actually done something 
> simmilar, but that was cheating. I just took an old numeric keyboard and 
> the electronics of a remote and connected both. Maybe eliminating all the 
> design errors of commercial keyboards like crappy keys without 
> microswitches which wear off after only a few years.
> 
> Anyhow, this IR controller really looks interresting.
> 
> Servus
>   Casandro
> 
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