JP1 Remotes

The three URC8910s I've been using for years are getting tired and falling apart. New 8910s are impossible to find. What, if any, are the currently produced and available JP1 remotes that would offer similar functionality? Ideally, reworking my RMDU and IR files should be a relatively painless ...

Well, 1.98beta4 is a beta. For me, the latest releasd version (1.97) works fine. I keep the the two different versions in different subdirectories, so the "rollback" consists of starting the 1.97 version instead of the 1.98 version.

Yep, just tried 1.97 and it works just fine. It's been about a ...

Known bug in RM. Workaround is to put a leading zero in the subdevice, i.e., 095.

Didn't work. Running RM 1.98beta4. As soon as I do a FILE>SAVE the device/subdevice and parm data go away.

Remote is a URC8910(NEW)

I recently built a new PC and installed the latest versions of RM, KM and IR ...

I'm trying to create an upgrade file for a satellite dish position control box by copying learned data into RM from IR.

NEC1
Device 0
Sub Device 95

All the function data is in correctly but any time I try to enter the device or Sub Device numbers, they disappear when I do a file save.

Any help ...

Up until recently, I've been doing my JP1 work on a laptop with a fully implemented parallel port. You know, a printer port, like the ancient people used to use :-). Anyway, my new laptop doesn't have an LPT port. Instead of buying a USB-JP1 cable I figured I'd get a USB to printer port cable and ...

Thanks Rob, will look into that for local control. My interest in using the PC for control still remains though. I have my PC set up with VNC such that I can log in and control it from anywhere. It's great for setting up my OTA and satellite tuner cards while having lunch at the office or traveling ...

The one limitation is that you're limited by the capabilities of the remote. Having the complete protocol and upgrade files on a PC means the ability to fully emulate a given remote with virtually unlimited macros etc. If this is for home use (moving your Sat dish, scheduling VCR recorder, powering ...

For hardware guys who don't like too much software, what about a rather retro idea: Output from PC to an array of switches (either virtual, electronic, relays, STAMP chip, whatever). Hardwire said array grid-fashion into the contact pads (or any convenient part connected to each pad) of your chosen ...

If you want to run long wires from your printer port all over the room, I guess it isn't harder for the PC to support up to a dozen instead of one.

I was assuming one IR output aimed at several devices across the room.

When I did such things long ago on much slower computers without Windows (so ...

For me anyway, the gui is a secondary issue. What I would want to do is, assuming a commandline interface, write batch files for sequences of IR button pushes to, say, move my satellite dish from one bird to another at a certain time via windows scheduler.

Understand the latency issues. That, as we ...

Sorry, posted this from an old screen before seeing the previous post. My
question below would, from a user perspective, seem like the cleanest way to go but obviously there are other considerations. I may for the time being simply use some apps I am finding which just memorize LED blink sequences ...

How soon do you need this to be up and running? If you can wait a while, as John mentioned earlier, there's a good chance that once JP1.2 remotes are fully supported by our JP1 software and hardware, we might have the ability to control the remote from the PC, so your JP1.2 remote would, in effect ...

One place to start is
http://winlirc.sourceforge.net/
Thanks, I was hoping I would not have to make this into a really big science project. I'll do more searching. Ideally, it would have been nice to be able to load my saved device upgrade files into some sort of command or script driven ...

The Robman wrote:I think this is what you need...
http://www.lirc.org/

Ah, I should have qualified that I am running XP not linux and am not likely to change due to the other applications I must run which are not supported and there are no alternatives under linux.

Steve

I would like to control various IR devices using an emitter connected to my PC. Is there software which would allow me to generate IR with a PC using data from JP1 upgrade files?

If not, I see lots of home brew and commercially made IR transceivers for the PC with learn/emit software. Anyone have ...