JP1 Remotes

I agree that the widget is the way to go. But if you want to go the remote route, AFAIK, the radio shack 15-133 is the cheapest, most widely available (in the US), learning JP1.3 remote these days. They're $20 and often go on sale for $10.

True that but if you think of a remote purchase and a JP1 ...

Still around...
...video quality would be degraded at location 3
I understand, but this will not being used for continuous viewing. The downstream, into the SlingCatcher at location 2, is the main viewing stream. Use of the local Slingbox at location 2, and the resulting upstream to location 3 ...

That is strange one
OK, before anyone asks.......

Location 1: Slingbox1 taking AV from satellite receiver slinging to.......

Location 2: ....SlingCatcher (output to TV) and Slingbox2 taking AV from SlingCatcher slinging to.......

Location 3 : ... PC / Slingplayer

You'd think it would be easy ...

Lanza;

Select -> Other Controllable Device -> Sling Media -> SlingCatcher


BTY, thanks Rob. I would never have figured they had included that. lol

Lanza wrote: It's not what you know it's who you know!

Thanks.

Ya, Rob has some contact at Sling Media. He ain't telling who.

Actually, I would like to know the answer to your question also. Probably not for the same reason.

Lanza wrote:This might appear to be an unusual request but I'd like to be able to IR control my SlingCatcher with a Slingbox.

Ya! Wow! That is strange one. LOL

Charade wrote:

The Robman wrote:If you do buy a cable, be sure to get a JP1 "EEPROM" cable rather than a JP1.2/3 "Flash" cable.

Which one is that?

Thanks.

Laid out pretty clear in this post;
https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9405

This is not a PCMCIA card but somewhat the same idea.

A lot (actually most) of the new desktops do not come with com or parallel ports. I purchased a MosChip PCI 2 serial and 1 parallel port. Both com ports work great but hardly anything works with the parallel port. Yes, it works fine as a ...

It does, but it's still in beta, hence not fully functional or documented yet. Add -ir to the command line when you run RM. I don't know what you searched for, but I found THIS without even trying.

Thanks. Very interesting.

Like all these sites, searching is kind of a skill. I searched for ...

When I look at the files included with RemoteMaster, I see I/O library files. Serial, parallel, USB for Windows and serial, parallel for Linux. When I look at all the options in RM, I can't find a place where it does any of that kind of I/O.

Have I missed something or if not, why the files?

I ...

Kevin Timmerman wrote:EPROMs are erased by short wavelength ultraviolet (UV). They can also be erased by X-Ray, but that is not practical for several technical reasons.

Ahhh ya, your right. I have an eraser unit too. I must be hanging around here too much and have IR on the brain.

...so do I understand correctly then, that the URCs with eg JP1.2 have an EEPROM and programming the remote actually programs the EEPROM?

WOW that is really cool - I remember very long time ago how difficult it was to program EEPROMs - one needed to use IR to burn it permanently as far as I ...

As a noob, that has played with this stuff, I like JP1.0.

As the same noob, I have to ask how much explaining will be required for old posts and IR? What I'm wondering, is if you do have people that want to learn and do reading, will JP1.0 confuse the issue?

The better user, is the one that reads ...

Ok, maybe I'm confused?

I could care less what political banners are run, so long as it helps pay for the site.

Political threads are a different issue. We don't need them.

We are probably all off topic, off forum purpose in this thread. Lets get back to JP1 stuff.

Capn Trips wrote:Can we keep politics off of this site, please?

In this case the banner was political. I'm guessing they help off set the cost of running this place.

If I was the site owner, so long as it was legit, I would run banners for who ever paid me money.

Both parties, would have been even better.