[vdr] Re: Ready: IR Controller with remote power on

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 1. August 2002 20:02 schrieben Sie:
> Hi list,

Wow, this definitely looks promising, and seems to be a great piece of 
work, but I see 2 Problems right now.
I do have a little idea on how to improve it. You might load one of those 
gold caps to power the reciever. That way you don't have to use expensive 
and power-hungry ATX power supplies.

Problems I currently see:
1. It's SMD, that's hard to build at home, unless you are experienced.
2. It seems to be really complex, I mean the PIC is a complete computer in 
a chip. I personally don't like the philosophy of using more and more 
deciated processors. I'm personally more a fan of using the CPUs already 
found in a normal computer.

Well I'd have some additional ideas which might be interresting:

Channel number-display via graphics card:
  set your graphics card to the TV line frequencies and connect a little 
monitor to it (used video camera viewfinder will do)

Voice control:
  There is cVoicecontrol which worked rather well, last time I tried 
http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/linux/ You could send commands to VDR :)

Own remote.
  Building a remote, especially for VDR. I've actually done something 
simmilar, but that was cheating. I just took an old numeric keyboard and 
the electronics of a remote and connected both. Maybe eliminating all the 
design errors of commercial keyboards like crappy keys without 
microswitches which wear off after only a few years.

Anyhow, this IR controller really looks interresting.

Servus
  Casandro

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