[vdr] Re: PALM PDA as Remote Control

[Dave Chapman <dave@dchapman.com>]

Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:11:02PM +0200, Dieter Poesl wrote:
>
>
> > Does anyone have experience with an Palm PDA as remote control?
> > What's the maximun distance it works?
> >
> > As far as i know it's only an Irda-Port and so i think it will not not 
> > work over a long distance?
>
> Well, the Tungsten T has bluetooth, which is much better than IrDa, and
> the Tungsten C has Wifi, that's perfect to control anything ;-)
>
> My "old" Vx has only Irda and it's not so convenient to control VDR: all
> you achieve is about 1-1.5m...
While we are on the subject of remote controls, you could also use your 
mobile phone (if you have a Sony-Ericsson T68i):

http://www.iptel-now.de/HOWTO/BT_REMOTE/bt_remote.html

I haven't tried it, but from what I can tell it basically adds menus 
(with input controls) to your T68i (or compatible) phone.

Dave.




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