Re: LIRC limitations

[Jed <jed...@gm...>]

Thanks Jarod I will ignore it!

Cheers,
Jed

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Jed wrote:
> 
>> Hi Anyone? Much appreciated.
> 
> Its mostly a bunch of crap, so far as I know. LIRC can pass raw IR from 
> the device to the daemon, so as long as the daemon can figure out the 
> protocol and decode it, its supported. Pretty much all major known IR 
> protocols are supported, certainly way more than just RC-5 and only a 
> certain frequency. Whoever said that was quite clueless.
> 
> 
>> Jed wrote:
>>> Would ya'll agree with this?
>>> /
>>> LIRC uses their own format IR and it is not standard and it is limited
>>> in only using RC-5 protocol and only to a certain frequency.
>>> You need an IR that can go from 30KHz - 500KHZ like professional remotes
>>> (RTI). A lot of remotes are coming out with higher frequencies.
>>>
>>> So if you really want to know about IR protocols and how they work
>>> please search or look for Philips RC-5, RC-6 and RC-MM for 2 way
>>> communication since AT&T U-Verse uses them.
>>>
>>> /Cheers,
>>> Jed/
>>> /
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