Lateral Thinking

[Martin R. <mar...@fm...>]

I've been having some issues getting the receiver circuit mentioned on the
LIRC site to accept a particular remote of mine and have been wondering as a
result about some alternatives. What I am considering is a learning remote
modified to be run by a small microprocessor. There are a couple of
different things in my junk box like a Basic STAMP and some old PICAXEs
which should do the job.

 

The idea is to get a learning remote, open it up and interface the processor
to the circuit with transistors on each button. This sort of simple
processor can also handle simple RS232 so it should be possible to write
some code to send the channel required via serial, have the processor press
the appropriate button via the transistor and voila I have a transmitter
capability from my Linux box that works with my particular cable STB.

 

Anyone ever embark on this sort of path?

 

 

 

Regards

Marty